Alabama Contractor Nails 500-Foot, Dual-Bore Project

Tina Calma pauses when asked about the most challenging job ever performed by Southern Directional, the underground-utilities business she co-owns with her husband, Matt. It’s based in Alabaster, Alabama, some 15 miles south of Birmingham.After all, the company’s work generally doesn’t involve dramatic, high-stakes long bores under rivers or highways. And on the other hand, aren’t all boring jobs challenging?But Calma can easily pick out the coolest job the company ever did: A 500-foot-long bore for a conduit line that connected two computer control rooms located in two different buildings owned by a company in Birmingham. A Vermeer D24x40 S3 directional