Built on more than 30 years of water infrastructure experience, Fortis is the exclusive installation, maintenance, and emergency repair contractor for Piedmont Water Company, one of the largest private water utilities in Georgia. We self-perform underground utilities, horizontal boring, and grading under one house, which means fewer handoffs, one safety program, and one team responsible from raw land to reliable infrastructure.
Why Fortis?
Utilities
More than 30 years of continuous wet-utility experience. Sewer, water, storm, force main, and pump station crews performing 100% of installations, maintenance, and emergency repairs for Piedmont Water Company, one of the largest private water utilities in Georgia. Over 156,000 LF of underground pipe and 10-plus pump and lift stations installed across recent representative projects.
Boring
Our fastest-growing division, with three crews capable of laser-guided horizontal bores from 12 to 72 inches. Fortis executes road and utility crossings across the state using a Barbco Pathfinder Guided Boring Machine, including recent work on the Effingham County Water extension (effinghamwater.org).
Grading
Clearing, mass grading, site prep, demolition, embankments, erosion and sediment control, pond conversion, and final dressing. Through subcontractor partnerships, Fortis also delivers curb, gutter, stone base, and paving to provide a complete site package. Teams recently moved nearly 1.9 million CY of dirt across corridor projects.
Experience you can trust
Fortis has spent 15 years building a siteworks company on the foundation of more than three decades of wet-utility infrastructure work. Notable clients and project partners include Linger Longer Development, Pulte/Del Webb, Brasfield & Gorrie, Forestar, Dream Finders Homes, E.R. Snell, and Pittman Construction, among other municipal and state agency prime contractors. Fortis currently runs 13 crews across a range of simultaneous grading, utility, and boring projects. A recent showcase for one of the largest homebuilders in the U.S.: a 164-acre residential development requiring over 600,000 CY of earthwork and nearly 27,000 LF of underground utilities including storm drainage, sanitary sewer, force main, water line, and lift station installation.