Featured Service Partnerships: Trinity Drilling & Blasting and Abel Recon

At Brubacher, our commitment to doing things the right way extends beyond our in-house crews and equipment. Through strategic relationships with Trinity Drilling & Blasting and Abel Recon, we provide clients with a broader range of solutions, each rooted in the same culture of safety, teamwork, and quality. These companies allow us to bring even more value to the clients we serve—whether that means carefully managing rock risk before a project begins or restoring aging underground utilities that most people don’t think about until something goes wrong.

Though their specialties differ, Trinity and Abel Recon share Brubacher’s focus on long-term value and an unwavering commitment to excellence. Together, they expand our capabilities across every stage of site development, from blasting through solid rock to rehabilitating the pipes that carry water and sewer beneath our feet.

A Trusted Partner: Trinity Drilling and Blasting

Trinity Drilling & Blasting is a specialized drilling and blasting company that has built its reputation on both safety and precision. It serves clients in PA and the northern parts of DE, MD, and WV. Trinity’s crews bring decades of experience working with site and utility contractors, quarries, and mining operations, with an unofficial motto that captures their approach: “Shoot it like you had to dig it.”

That mindset shapes everything they do. Trinity uses premium explosive products from Maxam, including Riomex-A dual salt emulsion, which creates a more energetic reaction and a cleaner break. While the up-front material cost can be higher, the result is fewer boreholes, more uniform breakage, and ultimately reduced drilling costs for the client. As Pete K., Trinity’s Operations Manager, explained, “A successful day means products are inventoried, safely loaded, and shot in a way that’s both productive and cost-effective—with no room for error.”

Safety is central to Trinity’s culture. The company has achieved more than 4,300 days without a recordable injury, representing over 12 years of injury-free operations. That record reflects a discipline that sets Trinity apart from other drilling companies and blasting contractors.

For Brubacher, the partnership with Trinity is about foresight and collaboration. Trinity is brought to the table during the estimating and bidding phase, giving clients the advantage of early risk management. “When rock is an unknown, the best time to address it is before work begins,” shared Adam D., Trinity Drilling and Blasting Manager. By involving a trusted drill and blast contractor from the start, Brubacher helps clients reduce financial and schedule uncertainty while avoiding costly surprises.

Most times, a developer or design engineer will perform a geo-technical survey of the area planned for construction, supplying this information to contractors bidding the project. This is a useful start; however, these limited borings rarely indicate the true quantities of rock, especially in areas with pinnacle limestone and other non-uniform rock formations. Brubacher advises a thorough, contractor-performed probing process that aligns areas of exploration with the proposed plans for trenching and excavation. The results are used to develop a realistic rock budget and include that activity in the schedule from early in the planning process. This stands in contrast to both the budget and schedule surprises that occur when the impact of rock is not addressed early on, before lot sales and turnover dates are established.

A Sister Company in Infrastructure Rehabilitation: Abel Recon

Abel Recon extends Brubacher’s services into a critical area that directly impacts our communities: underground utility rehabilitation. As a Brubacher-owned affiliate company, Abel Recon is closely aligned with our values and long-term mission.

Licensed in five states and Washington, D.C., Abel Recon provides trenchless rehabilitation services for the sanitary sewer, stormwater and the potable water industries. Abel Recon’s crews rehabilitate deteriorating manholes, vaults, digesters, clarifiers, wet wells, potable water tanks, sanitary sewer and stormwater pipes using a spray-applied polyurethane material that provides corrosion protection while restoring structural integrity and with the use of a UV-cured fiberglass reinforced pipe lining system

Using premium products under license from Sprayroq and Reline America, Abel Recon delivers solutions that restore aging infrastructure and extend its useful life for decades. “What we’re doing in the rehabilitation world is the best of the best,” explained Tony D., Marketing Director. “We don’t just buy a commodity product and move on. We partner with our product manufacturers to deliver insights on performance in real life and collaborate with them, and that shows in the final product.”

For Brubacher clients, Abel Recon’s capabilities are a natural complement to our excavation and utility installation services. Together, we can offer a one-stop solution: open-cut excavation when needed, trenchless rehab when that’s the better fit.

“The biggest benefit is that our customers no longer need to piece together multiple contractors. Instead, they can rely on one team to solve problems and deliver lasting results, whether that involves mapping and installing underground infrastructure, trenchless rehabilitation, or completing the project with final paving,” shared Brubacher COO Melvin P.

Abel Recon’s footprint across the Mid-Atlantic positions it to serve a broad market. Whether working in Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, or D.C., the team operates with the same commitment to safety and community that guides our crews closer to home in PA. They take pride in being “good neighbors”—whether that means protecting a child waiting at a bus stop near a work zone or restoring a stormwater system that prevents flooding on neighborhood streets.

Safety, Quality, and Long-Term Value

Though their services differ, Trinity and Abel Recon are aligned with the same values that drive Brubacher. Both operate with a commitment to safety, quality, and efficiency that guides every project every day, focusing on long-term solutions rather than short-term fixes. And both support the Brubacher commitment to Shaping the World We Live In, both in the dirt and in the lives of those with whom we interact, bringing an uncommonly refreshing approach to construction.

Together with Brubacher, these companies provide a full spectrum of services—land clearing, drilling and blasting, site development and excavation, paving, underground utilities, and infrastructure rehabilitation—to meet the growing needs of our communities.

Building a Stronger Future Together

For clients, the benefit of these relationships is simple but powerful: more complete solutions delivered by people they can trust. Whether it’s a drilling & blasting contractor producing aggregate in a quarry, a Brubacher crew preparing a site for new development, or an infrastructure rehabilitation team restoring a century-old sewer line, the common thread is the same: a shared commitment to doing the job right.

With Trinity and Abel Recon alongside Brubacher, we offer peace of mind, knowing that every project will be approached with safety, collaboration, and a dedication to operating with integrity at our core.