Power Construction

Drilling and Foundations

Leading the Industry in Drilling and Foundation Capabilities

Drilling is a key component of infrastructure and utility projects. While other companies subcontract drilling services, Riggs Distler employs in-house project managers and union craft personnel with specialized drilling experience in all kinds of terrains and settings. Our in-house drilling team works in support of our utilities team and other service divisions on blanket purchase order contracts to streamline project construction and save our clients money.

The Right Equipment to Support Your Project

Riggs Distler’s self-contained drilling trucks can provide distribution rock holes 12-inch, 18-inch, and 24-inch diameter with depths of up to 10 feet. Common sizes are 36”-48” 10-14ft deep for direct embedment pole work. Our foundation drilling equipment is capable of drilling up to 120 feet deep and 12 feet in diameter in both soil and solid rock. Our team adapts easily to any landscape in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region. We currently serve all major utility companies in NJ, PA, NY, NH, MA, RI, VT, CT, and ME, as well as numerous private companies. With our extensive fleet and experience across numerous industries, Riggs Distler is the turnkey drilling partner clients trust.

Safety is Our First Concern

Worker and environmental safety is at the heart of Riggs Distler’s approach. A proud member of the Gold Shovel Certification Program, Riggs Distler follows strict safety protocol on all drilling projects, including:

• Independent dig-safe markouts to ensure safe and efficient digging
• Compliance with OSHA silica requirements for dust control and minimization
• Providing dust masks and necessary PPE to all workers and members of the general public in the project area
• Carefully marking work areas with covers and cones during and after project completion

Rapid Response For Drilling Emergencies

Riggs Distler’s drilling team is on standby 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to respond to emergency and storm damage situations. We are committed to keeping our clients’ projects on schedule, and we’re ready to roll when you need us.

Environmental Matting

Environmental Matting For Safe and Secure Work Areas

Over wetlands, through deep forests, and across steep slopes, utility and infrastructure projects often contend with rough, rugged terrain. Environmental matting ensures safe, stable work sites and access roads for work crews, while also protecting local habitats and wildlife from damage. Riggs Distler’s matting team specializes in taming tough landscapes for our clients so that their projects can proceed.

Protect Your Project With Environmental Matting From Riggs Distler

Maintaining safe access and work areas for employees is a key concern for our clients, but environmental matting also helps to mitigate environmental concerns and compliance issues. Matting reduces a project’s environmental footprint by preventing contamination, spills, erosion, and other degradation that may require clean-up or restoration. Protecting against these factors, especially in sensitive natural areas, can result in significant time and cost savings on your project.

Our environmental matting team designs site-specific solutions and mobilizes quickly to keep projects on schedule. With a massive inventory of matting and a fleet of delivery vehicles, we’re ready to roll whenever our clients need us.

Heavy Civil

Heavy Civil Solutions For Projects in Any Environment

Whether in dense urban environments or across the most rugged rural terrain, Riggs Distler provides a turnkey suite of Heavy Civil services that support client projects and keep workplaces safe and accessible. Working with clients from the planning and design stage through execution and clean-up, our heavy civil experts handle site development, road building and access, environmental protection and remediation services, and other fundamentals to protect your project investment.

Heavy Civil Services From Riggs Distler

Riggs Distler’s approach to heavy civil work is informed by a century of experience developing, constructing, and demolishing complex facilities and infrastructure on behalf of clients in the power and utility industries. Focusing on safety, compliance, and careful adherence to the client’s project schedule, our expertise ensures that your project proceeds as planned.

Through tough terrain, swamps, and wetlands, we’ll build the infrastructure necessary to ensure safe access to your project while protecting sensitive environmental concerns. One of the most recognized names in the field, Riggs Distler has decades of experience providing heavy civil services to power providers, heavy industrial projects, and facilities.

Mechanical Life Cycle

A Century of Experience: Mechanical Services for the Power and Utility Industry

Mechanical projects demand a high level of skill and precision. You need a company that can do more than simply adhere to deadlines—you need a company you can trust to get the job done right.

Mechanical Services From Riggs Distler

Riggs Distler’s award-winning construction, maintenance, and demolition work at hundreds of refineries, power plants, and other industrial facilities, together with our experienced core group of project managers and union craftsmen, merges a century of expertise with cutting-edge technology to deliver exceptional results for our clients. Drawing on the best and brightest minds in the industry, our team is constantly developing solutions to new challenges.

Piping and Fabrication Expertise

Riggs Distler’s Piping group works with complex piping systems for process fluid transfer materials such as air, steam, water, gasses, fuels, and chemicals. One of Riggs Distler’s specialties is installation and repair for pipe systems that transfer and deliver materials used for power generation. Highly specialized for oil and gas, our team is suited to work in settings for power plants, chemical plants, and oil and gas refineries to help with new projects, ongoing maintenance, or emergency repair situations.

Riggs Distler’s Fabrication group encompasses over 30,000 square feet of climate controlled fabrication shop capabilities with multiple overhead cranes and segregated, production-oriented floor space. Utilizing union craft labor, Riggs Distler is certified and highly experienced at handling complex specifications and requirements for the fabrication of carbon steel, stainless steel, chrome-moly, and exotic alloys. Our fabrication facility produces pipe spools, headers, manifolds, and skid-mounted piping and equipment modules that are utilized in a diverse range of industries, including power generation, refineries, water treatment, renewable fuels, and manufacturing facilities.

Riggs Distler’s welding procedures include MIG, TIG, and orbital. From heavy wall high temperature and high pressure systems to thin wall aluminum and underground pipe, our craftsmen deliver our customers a top-notch quality product with the support of our state of the art QC Department.

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Millwrighting and Heavy Rigging Capabilities

Riggs Distler employs experienced millwrights who specialize in all types of rotating equipment repair. While steam turbines are our specialty, we also repair all styles of pumps, blowers, gearboxes, etc. Our millwrights will ensure that your equipment is repaired back to within factory or industry standard specifications. When it comes to heavy rigging, Riggs Distler excels by taking your project from preliminary planning stages through final inspection on time and on budget. Drawing from our vast history of completed projects in a multitude of markets including petrochemical, nuclear and renewable energy, aerospace, and heavy industrial, Riggs Distler is your greatest ally on rigging projects.

Plumbing Services

Riggs Distler’s Plumbing group provides services for commercial and industrial plumbing installations in new construction as well as repairs and replacements on existing systems. We work with hot water tanks, boilers, large and small diameter cleaning, heat pumps, split systems, portable systems, cooling towers, pump stations, piping, water treatment, and high-pressure systems.

Quality Assurance

Our Quality Assurance group is a cohesive unit, with each individual member being responsible for, and specializing in, a distinct area of expertise. This unit is critical to the safe operation of the industries we serve. Riggs Distler provides a quality document package to every project we perform. We are committed to continually improving our processes and our staff’s skills. Ongoing training and certification is vital to not only our future but the success of our customers as well.

Riggs Distler is the first choice for power and utility providers throughout the Eastern region. Building, maintaining, repairing—we provide integrated/overlapping services our clients need to keep their businesses running.

Storm

Restoration Services

When disaster strikes, we get to work. Riggs Distler provides on-call emergency power and utility restoration for companies up and down the East Coast. Preparing early and deploying fast, we’re on your side after storm events and other emergency system disruptions.

We’ve responded to hurricanes and major storms from New Jersey to Puerto Rico, deploying thousands of workers and hundreds of fully loaded trucks to navigate the aftermath and help get utility networks back online.

Our managers and field staff are the best in the business, and they have the critical experience and know-how to work in post-disaster settings. Safety is always our number-one priority. Through constant oversight, Riggs Distler makes sure crews have the specialized resources and support they need to tackle any challenge. Riggs Distler is committed to keeping your customers connected.