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Underground Utility Construction · Ontario

We design it, permit it, and put it in the ground.

Apex Fibre is a trenchless design–build contractor serving telecommunications, electrical, gas, water and municipal clients across Ontario — as a prime contractor to utilities and municipalities, and as a specialist partner to general and utility contractors. Licensed professional engineering, municipal consent and permitting, project management, and self-performed directional drilling, under one roof.

4+Years in operation
500+ kmOf conduit installed
25+Municipalities worked in
91,000+Hours worked — lost-time injury free
Who We Build For

Five markets. One trenchless contractor.

Why Apex

Most contractors start when the permit lands. We start before it exists.

Apex Fibre has licensed professional engineers. The design, the municipal consent submission and the hydro pole attachment permitting are produced by our own engineering team — then built by our own crews on our own rigs.

No coordination gap between the designer and the driller. No finger-pointing when the field hits something the drawing didn't show. One contract, one schedule, one accountable party from survey to as-built.

Apex Fibre plow unit installing conduit along a rural Ontario road
01Engineering & permitting

Design, municipal consent, hydro pole attachment and make-ready permitting, stamped bore plans, as-builts.

02Self-performed trenchless

Our rigs, our operators, our locators. HDD, hydrovac daylighting, plowing, conduit and vaults.

03Project management

One named owner and one defined deliverable per stage, from survey to as-built. The permit schedule first, the construction schedule around it.

04Managed capacity

A prequalified subcontractor network held to the same standard our clients hold us, supervised by our own field leadership.

Built to scale without losing control

Apex self-performs the work that determines whether a project succeeds — the design, the permits, the bore, the splice. For programs that need more crews than any one company should carry year-round, we scale through a subcontractor network we prequalify ourselves and supervise ourselves.

One contract. One project manager. One company carrying the liability.

How we prequalify our subcontractors →
What We Do

Capabilities

Bore tracking with a DigiTrak locator on an Apex Fibre drill path

Engineering & Permitting

  • Fibre optic and utility design
  • Municipal consent design
  • Hydro pole permitting (P.Eng)
  • Utility coordination and circulation
  • As-built drawings and GIS deliverables
Hydrovac unit daylighting existing utilities

Trenchless Construction

  • Horizontal directional drilling
  • Hydrovac daylighting and utility exposure
  • Plow and pipe installation
  • Vault, chamber and conduit installation
  • Road, rail and watercourse crossings
Fibre splice case and loops in a below-grade vault

Cable & Fibre Services

  • Jetting and cable pulling
  • Fibre splicing and termination
  • OTDR testing and certification
  • Aerial installation and strand
Excavator reinstating a roadside ditch behind safety fencing

Restoration & Reinstatement

  • Hard surface restoration — asphalt, concrete, curb
  • Soft surface — topsoil, sod, hydroseed, landscape
  • Coring and reinstatement
  • Restoration to municipal specification
Engineering Deliverables

The drawing is ours before the drill is.

Design packages produced by our engineering team: municipal consent submissions, hydro pole attachment and make-ready packages, engineered bore plans to OPSS 450, and as-built drawings with GIS deliverables.

Permit types we carry from application to approval: municipal consent · road occupancy · hydro pole attachment & make-ready · rail · MTO · conservation authority.

Sanitized sample of an Apex-drafted rail crossing trench application sheet
The concept sheet is illustrative.

Permitting authorities we’ve carried approvals through

Municipal & Regional

City of Toronto · City of Mississauga · City of Oshawa · City of Kitchener · City of Kawartha Lakes · Municipality of Clarington · Township of Brock · Township of Scugog · Region of Durham · Region of York · Region of Peel · Region of Waterloo · County of Simcoe

Conservation Authorities

Toronto and Region (TRCA) · Central Lake Ontario (CLOCA) · Lake Simcoe Region (LSRCA) · Ganaraska Region (GRCA)

Rail & Pipeline

CN Rail · CPKC · Trans-Northern Pipelines (TNPI) · TC Energy · Enbridge Gas

Utility & Provincial

Ministry of Transportation (MTO) · Hydro One · Toronto Hydro · Alectra Utilities

From Concept to Completion

One team, ten steps, zero handoff gaps

A documented system with a named owner and a defined deliverable at every stage — because the permit schedule is what actually slips, we build it first and schedule construction around it.

Survey & Site Assessment
Design & Engineering
Municipal Consent
Permitting & Approvals
Locates & Daylighting
Trenchless Installation
Conduit, Cable & Pipe Placement
Splicing, Testing & Commissioning
Restoration
As-Built & Handover
How We Build

Two ways we put it in the ground

Field-accurate animations of our two core installation methods — every step in the order our crews actually run it. At full production our crews drill up to 2,000 m/day and plow up to 4,000 m/day.

© Apex Fibre Limited. Original animated work. Unauthorized reproduction, republication or derivative use is prohibited. Contact: bids@apexfibre.ca APEX-FIBRE-ORIGINAL-HDD-SEQUENCE-2026 © Apex Fibre Limited REGIONAL ROAD — STAYS OPEN GAS WATER HYDRO ≥1.0 m APEX APEX VAC APEX HDD CLEARANCE ✓ APEX APEX APEX APEX CABLE REEL APEX APEX AF VAULT AF VAULT APEX SECTION COMPLETE — MINIMAL SURFACE DISRUPTION APEX FIBRE TRENCHLESS DESIGN–BUILD
STEP 1 / 6Excavate the entry & exit pits — locates painted STEP 2 / 6Daylight every crossing utility — a full metre past STEP 3 / 6Pilot bore — steered beneath the exposed utilities STEP 4 / 6On-target exit — ream & pull back conduit STEP 5 / 6Rig off — set vaults at grade STEP 6 / 6Backfill & restore — pit by pit, in order FINAL STEPPull the cable — vault to vault through the conduit
Gas Watermain Hydro New conduit Product cable — fibre · hydro · comms Hydrovac daylight pit Vault © Apex Fibre Limited — all rights reserved
© Apex Fibre Limited. Original animated work. Unauthorized reproduction, republication or derivative use is prohibited. Contact: bids@apexfibre.ca APEX-FIBRE-ORIGINAL-PLOW-SEQUENCE-2026 © Apex Fibre Limited APEX ROAD EDGE — TRAFFIC KEEPS MOVING LOCATES CLEAR ✓ 1.1 m APEX ANCHORED APEX APEX APEX APEX APEX AF VAULT AF VAULT APEX CABLE REEL 2 WEEKS LATER ONE PASS · 1.1 m DEPTH · NO TRACE LEFT BEHIND APEX FIBRE TRENCHLESS DESIGN–BUILD
STEP 1 / 6Locates clear — conduit anchored to start the pull STEP 2 / 6Plow in — fed off the front reel, placed at 1.1 m in one pass STEP 3 / 6Compacted behind — a narrow stitch, not a trench STEP 4 / 6Blade out — set vaults at grade, backfill the pits STEP 5 / 6Pull the cable — vault to vault through the conduit STEP 6 / 6Weeks later — you'd never know we were there
New conduit / pipe Disturbed ground Compacted — back to original Product cable Vault Typical production: up to 4,000 m / day © Apex Fibre Limited — all rights reserved
Our Platform

Every project runs on Apex's proprietary platform

We built our own project platform — locates, jetting, drops, completions and invoicing tracked live, from the crew's phone in the trench to the PM's dashboard. Our customers get live access to their project's data: progress by metre, permit status, locates and completions in real time — not in next week's report.

Apex Fibre — PM Dashboard
0Active permits
0Crews out today
0mCompleted this week
0Ready to invoice
PM action queue
RL-104-1 — Permit 104: redline requested 3d agochase the approval
RL-102-1 — Permit 102: section on holdcrews can't see this redline — open the Scope Editor
Permit 101: restoration completeready for invoice package
Metres by week

Every permit, crew, redline and invoice in one live view — each item jumps straight to the screen where the decision gets made.

Apex crew phone running the Field Tracker at a live drill site
Carrier A — East Region0
1,234 m
1,295 m
1,295 m
12
1,499 m
Section 12 — 240 mDrilled ✓
Section 13 — 185 mPlowed ✓
Vault V-8 setComplete ✓

Hover the photo to zoom into the app

Crews log completions from the trench — offline-capable, drawing-in-hand, straight onto the permit page. No paper, no end-of-day data entry.

Locate Tracker — 518 tickets live
0mWaiting
0mValid ≥20d
0mExpiring <20d
0mExpired
READY Permit 7203-18 — dig window 19 days · duct 0 m · connections 696 m
SectionTicketPhasesExpiry
6007-1R2026•••788Day✓Duct✓Con✓FibRes27d
6003R2026•••764Day✓Duct✓ConFibRes21d
60392026•••195Roadblock-16d

Every locate ticket tracked by metre and expiry. The system knows what's buildable under valid locates today — and what expires before the rig gets there.

Jetting — live from the HLD
144F96F24FDone 0 runs · 291 km · 0 done

Cable runs extracted straight from the design file — every reel, every fibre count, every run's status painted on the map as crews jet.

Apex crew phone running the Last Mile consents and drops app on site
0to knock
0yes
0attempted
0vacant
21405 Concession Rd 4PENDING
21375 Concession Rd 4YES
21325 Concession Rd 4PENDING
21275 Concession Rd 4PENDING

Hover the photo to zoom into the app

Door-to-door consents, drop installs and splicing tracked per address — so the FTTH build finishes at the doorstep, not at the curb.

Screens shown with representative demo data.

Trusted By
Canada's largest cable operator Tier-1 Canadian carrier Regional broadband providers Renewable energy developers Regional municipal broadband initiative (MSC)
Selected Projects

Work on the ground

Apex Fibre track plow installing microduct along a Clarington road allowance
Telecom · Clarington, ON · 2025 Clarington Underserved Broadband Internet Program

220 km rural broadband build — 100 km 12-way and 110 km 24-way microduct, 20 km 4-in duct, 6 km 6-in duct and 5 km 4-way microduct, delivering over 1,300 homes passed.

The constraint: 35 major national pipeline crossings, 8 major railway crossings, 2 major highway crossings and 20+ watercourse crossings.

Apex Fibre crew truck working behind safety fencing on a government facility build
Municipal · Durham, ON · 2026 Government Facility Infrastructure Upgrade

20 km secure-facility duct build — 1 km 6-in steel casing, 18 km 4-way and 3 km 7-way duct.

The constraint: high water table, boulder-laden rocky ground, and sections installed at depths beyond 10 m.

Fibre splicing workspace beside a handhole at a utility-scale solar farm
Renewables / Solar · Ontario · 2026 Brookfield Solar Farm — Fibre Backbone, Splicing & Maintenance

Duct installation protecting the site fibre backbone, splice repairs, and ongoing SCADA / comms maintenance on a producing solar asset.

The constraint: live generation site — energized equipment, and wildlife damage to infrastructure.

Safety & Compliance

We measure the work we do underground by what we don't hit.

Every bore is preceded by Ontario One Call locates and hydrovac daylighting of every crossing utility. 91,000+ hours worked, lost-time injury free — zero on-site incidents and zero at-fault hits. Our crews carry Working at Heights, Confined Space Entry, Traffic Control, Ground Disturbance, Electrical Safety, First Aid, WHMIS and Fire Safety training; our supervisors are trained in MOL 4-Step and 5-Step, Basics of Supervising, Supervisor Due Diligence, AODA and Workplace Violence & Harassment.

WSIB logoWSIB clearance currentISNetworld logoISNetworld member contractoreRailSafe logoeRailSafe certified
91,000+ hrs LTI-free 0 at-fault utility hits $5–10M liability coverage
Equipment

Our iron, our operators.

We self-perform on our own iron — directional drills, conduit plows, excavators and splicing equipment run by our own operators out of our Courtice yard. Behind it sits a prequalified partner fleet we mobilize under Apex supervision: up to 8 additional drills including an 80,000 lb-class maxi rig, 7 hydrovac units, 3 more plows, 5 excavators and 6 splicing trucks — capacity that scales with the program without losing our standard.

View the fleet →
Join Us

We're hiring operators, locators, splicers and supervisors.

Company vehicle, health benefits, paid vacation, yearly bonus, and a path from labourer to operator to foreperson.

See open roles →

Have a bore that others have called impossible?

Send us the drawing. Our engineering team will tell you whether it can be done, how, and what it costs — before you commit to anything.

bids@apexfibre.ca · Serving Durham Region, the GTA, Northumberland, Peterborough, and across Ontario