Trenchless infrastructure, planned utility work, and surgical site work for university facilities, tech research campuses, healthcare, and multifamily properties across Corvallis and Benton County.
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Corvallis is not a generic Willamette Valley city. It is a tech-and-university town with a strong environmental ethic, a 35,000-student campus weaving through the urban fabric, and a building community that genuinely cares about sustainable practice. Owners and facility managers here ask harder questions than most: How will this protect the heritage trees? How will it affect stormwater? Can we avoid tearing up the brick walkway?
Lovett Services answers those questions with trenchless infrastructure as our default. Horizontal directional drilling lets us install water service, sewer, conduit, and gas under roads, parking areas, and landscaping without opening a trench. Pipe bursting replaces a failed sewer in place. Hydro excavation exposes existing utilities with pressurized water and vacuum, which is gentle enough to use directly inside the drip line of a mature Douglas fir.
For OSU-adjacent multifamily portfolios, research campuses along the 9th Street corridor, and healthcare facilities serving Benton County, low-impact methods are not a marketing line. They are the only way to do the work without making enemies of arborists, neighbors, and the city. That is the niche we built our fleet around, and it is why we travel south from Portland to do Corvallis projects.
Trenchless installs and hydro excavation keep mature root systems intact. Critical for OSU’s historic quad and Corvallis’s tree-lined commercial corridors.
From OSU campus utility tie-ins and HP research facility infrastructure to Samaritan Health renovations and student-housing turnover work, Corvallis projects span six core capabilities. One Lovett project manager coordinates every trade so your sustainability goals, academic calendar, and tenant operations stay protected.
Installation, repair, maintenance, leak detection, and water service. Includes backflow testing and sump pump service. Licensed plumbers available 24/7.
Rooter service, high-pressure jetting, sewer camera inspection, grease trap cleaning, and preventative maintenance programs.
Hydro excavation, stormwater maintenance, debris extraction, waste removal, and confined space support.
Site work, grading, trenching, sewer rehab, pipe bursting, concrete, and demolition.
HDD, trenchless conduit installation. PGE Certified. .75” to 24”+.
Emergency extraction, structural drying, mold remediation, and restoration.
Turnkey commercial EV charging infrastructure: power and communications drilling, concrete pad construction, and full charger installation for multifamily, retail, and fleet properties.
Corvallis project scheduling lives or dies by the OSU academic calendar. The university’s 35,000 students create predictable pressure points: dead week, finals, move-in weekend, and the narrow summer break window where most invasive utility, sewer, and infrastructure work has to happen. Our project managers build schedules around that calendar, mobilize crews ahead of summer turnover, and coordinate with facilities staff so trenchless installs and pipe bursting are finished before fall return. For multifamily portfolios serving student tenants, the same rhythm applies: summer is when laterals get replaced and water service gets upsized.
Heritage trees and the landscape character of the OSU campus and surrounding neighborhoods are non-negotiable for most Corvallis clients. We default to horizontal directional drilling, hydro excavation, and pipe bursting so we can install or replace utilities under mature root systems, brick walkways, and native plantings without opening a trench. When projects fall within City of Corvallis sustainability requirements, we plan around stormwater best management practices: protecting treatment swales, sequencing soil disturbance, capturing sediment, and documenting compliance for owners who report on ESG and campus sustainability metrics.
Two facility types in Corvallis carry their own access protocols and we staff for both. HP’s research campus and the broader R&D cluster require badge access, escort coordination, equipment screening, and tight work windows around fiber, chilled water, and active lab buildings. Samaritan Health, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, and the satellite clinics require ICRA-compliant barriers, dust control, infection-control work zones, and crews comfortable operating inside active patient-care environments. We assign Corvallis projects to crews who have done this work before and we document everything for facility records.
We serve Corvallis, Benton County, and the broader mid-Willamette Valley. We also serve these nearby communities:
Oregon licensed, bonded, and fully insured for commercial, civil, and trenchless work.
Directional drills, hydro vac trucks, and pipe-bursting rigs built for trenchless work.
We pull City of Corvallis, Benton County, and DEQ permits in our name on every job.
Every Lovett project carries a full one-year workmanship warranty. If it fails, we fix it.
Real reviews from property managers and business owners across the Pacific Northwest.
“These guys were extraordinary — Gary and his crew worked through the night to restore water and sewage to 26 homes. A dedicated crew that didn’t clock out until every house was up and running.”
Columbia Way West
“We use Lovett often, always calling when we’re in a pinch. The team always steps up. Ken and Andrew always come through, 100% of the time. There is nothing these guys can’t do.”
Multi-Family Property Owner
“As a facilities professional it’s always a pleasure to work with contractors who know their business. Charges were in line with expectations and the quality was first rate. An outstanding choice.”
Facilities Professional
Yes. Corvallis sits roughly 85 miles southwest of our Portland hub, and we have crews that travel south via I-5 and Highway 99W to serve Benton County properties on a regular basis. Because of the drive, we are best suited to planned and scheduled commercial work in Corvallis: trenchless utility installs, sewer rehabilitation, hydro excavation, scheduled grease trap maintenance, and infrastructure projects for OSU-adjacent campuses, research facilities, and multifamily buildings. For non-life-safety calls our typical response window is 100 to 120 minutes once a crew is dispatched.
Yes, and that is exactly why most Corvallis clients call us. Horizontal directional drilling, pipe bursting, and hydro excavation let us install or replace utilities under mature canopies, brick walkways, native plantings, and storm-treatment swales without opening a trench. Hydro excavation in particular is the gentlest way to expose existing utilities near root zones and irrigation, which matters on a campus like OSU where heritage trees and landscape investments are part of the institutional identity. We coordinate with arborists and landscape architects when projects require it.
We routinely work on large institutional and corporate campuses across Oregon, including university, healthcare, and tech research environments. The work pattern is consistent whether the client is a university, a research campus along the 9th Street corridor, or a hospital complex: planned outages, after-hours coordination, strict cleanliness and barricade requirements, badge and check-in protocols, and detailed documentation. We staff Corvallis projects with crews experienced in operating around active classroom buildings, lab spaces, and patient-care areas.
We pull permits in our name and handle the entire process. That includes City of Corvallis right-of-way and utility permits, Benton County requirements for projects outside city limits, encroachment coordination for work near the Willamette River corridor, and Oregon DEQ documentation for any work that involves contaminated soils or stormwater. Our project managers maintain ongoing relationships with local jurisdictions so submittals move efficiently and inspections are scheduled before they become a critical-path issue.
For planned commercial work, we schedule projects like a local contractor: crews mobilize the night before or arrive at first light. For dispatch calls on non-emergencies, plan on 100 to 120 minutes from the time we accept the job. Because of the distance, the value we deliver in Corvallis is in scheduled trenchless work, sewer rehabilitation, and infrastructure expansion where our specialized fleet and bonded crews make the difference. For true emergencies, we will deploy and we will be honest with you about timing on the call.
Trenchless utility, sewer rehabilitation, hydro excavation, and campus infrastructure. Free on-site estimates across Corvallis, Benton County, and the mid-Willamette Valley.
