Subsidiary
Spotlight Part Two: Asplundh Construction Corp.
In case you missed the last issue of The TREE, the first part
of this feature introduced the management 
team
of Asplundh Construction Corp. (ACC) and gave a little background
on this subsidiary.
To summarize, Asplundh acquired ACC in 1990. Headquartered in
Yaphank, New York, ACC continues to help Asplundh expand its
capabilities in overhead and underground utility line construction
for the electric, gas and telecommunications industries. ACC
is the company’s largest subsidiary in terms of sales volume
and it is the only Asplundh operation that also offers general
construction and paving operations, in addition to its utility
line construction services.
ACC
President Scott Asplundh and Vice President/Chief Operating
Officer Frank Giordano lead the management team, which consists
of over 500 skilled employees working in six states. With more
than 1,000 pieces of specialized equipment, ACC has all the
resources it takes to build, repair or maintain a wide variety
of utility and municipal construction projects. A simplified
listing of ACC services includes:
- all aspects of electric transmission and distribution construction,
replacement or system improvements for overhead or underground
lines
- all facets of high and low pressure gas line construction
or replacement-mains or service lines in steel or plastic
- general construction of roadways and sanitary landfill operations
- pipe jacking, directional boring and rock drilling
- fiber optic cable installation or replacement for telecommunications-underground,
overhead or underwater
- pavement and landscape restoration after gas line construction
or repair
- emergency storm restoration work
About
a year ago, ACC began to reorganize its operations and several
new managers were promoted and hired. In June, ACC headquarters
moved from Patchogue, New York to a 3.5 acre, 16,000 square
foot office/shop/warehouse facility in Yaphank.
ACC
Beyond Long Island
In recent years, ACC has branched out of its traditionally Long
Island-based operations into other parts of the country and
now maintains successful satellite offices in Florida, Ohio
and Pennsylvania.
ACC’s
largest operation beyond Long Island is in Florida. So
far ACC in Florida has focused on overhead and underground electric
line construction for Florida Power & Light Co. (Naples/Ft.
Myers and Daytona/Port Orange areas), Florida Power Corp. in
Orlando, Jacksonville Electric Authority, the City of Vero Beach
and various developers. The future looks bright for gas construction,
though, and ACC’s experience in this field will be an asset.
Ohio
was one of the first states that ACC expanded into in the early
1990s. There are currently two offices-one in Mentor in the
northeastern part of the state and one in Amelia in the southwestern
part. Projects being run from the Mentor office include overhead
fiber optics installations for the City of Crawfordsville and
a 69kv overhead transmission line for the City of Jasper, both
in the state of Indiana. Underground electric, gas, telephone
and cable crews working for Cinergy, Cincinnati Bell and Time-Warner
Cable in southwestern Ohio and parts of Kentucky are being managed
by the Amelia office.
Last year the Pennsylvania operation became part of ACC after
many years under Tree Co. management. Current
projects include underground cable replacement for Pennsylvania
Power & Light Co. (PP&L), manual and mechanical rock excavation
for GPU Energy and PP&L, overhead distribution line rebuild
and aerial cable installation for Central Hudson Gas & Electric
Corp., and an overhead rebuild and conversion for the Borough
of Olyphant, Pennsylvania.
The
ACC team marches on!
Congratulations
to the Tree/Line USA Utilities
Asplundh is proud to say that its crews work on almost all
of these top quality utility systems.
Alliant Energy - Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin
Ameren - Missouri, Illinois
Arizona Public Service - Arizona
Benton Public Utility District - Washington
Blackstone Valley Electric - Rhode Island
Bristol Tennessee Electric System - Tennessee
Central Power & Light Company - Texas
Chugach Electric Association - Alaska
City of Batavia Municipal Electric Utility - Illinois
City of Redding Electric Utility - California
City of Westerville Electric Division - Ohio
City Utilities of Springfield - Missouri
Clark Public Utilities - Washington
Colorado Springs Utilities - Colorado
Columbia Water & Light - Missouri
Conectiv - Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia
Consumers Power - Oregon
Detroit Edison - Michigan
Duquesne Light Company - Pennsylvania
Dyersburg Electric System - Tennessee
Eastern Edison Company - Massachusetts
First Energy - Ohio, Pennsylvania
Gaffney Board of Public Works - South Carolina
Gainesville Regional Utilities - Florida
Idaho Power Company - Idaho, Nevada, Oregon
Independence Power & Light - Kansas
Long Island Power Authority - New York
Los Angeles Dept. of Water & Power - California
Madison Gas & Electric Company - Wisconsin
Matanuska Electric Association - Alaska
New Century Energies - Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma,
Texas, Wyoming
Newport Electric Corporation - Rhode Island
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. - New York
Northern Indiana Public Service Co. - Indiana
Northern States Power - Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Wisconsin
OG&E Electric Services - Arkansas, Oklahoma
Orlando Utilities Commission - Florida
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. - California
Peninsula Light Company - Washington
Provo City Power Company - Utah
Public Service Co. of New Mexico - New Mexico
Public Service Co. of Oklahoma - Oklahoma
PUD #1 of Chelan County - Washington
Reliant Energy HL & P - Texas
Richmond Power & Light - Indiana
Southwestern Electric Power Co. - Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas
St. Joseph Light & Power Co. - Missouri
United Illuminating - Connecticut
West Texas Utilities Co. - Texas
Western Resources, Inc. - Kansas
Wisconsin Electric Power Co. - Michigan, Wisconsin
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