Excavator digging a utility trench with a trench box beside a new commercial building, pipe staged alongside

Civil construction and general construction services.

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NYS certified

USMC

Veteran owned

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Towns covered

What we do

Civil site work and construction services, bought by the general contractors and owners who need the dirt to be somebody else's problem.

01Site work & civil
Grading, drainage, earthwork and material handling on commercial and public sites.
02Concrete cutting & removal
Core drilling, slab and wall sawing, doweling, and removal of the cut concrete.
03Utility trenching
Utility excavation and open-cut trenching, bedded, backfilled and compacted to spec.
04Site prep & restoration
Clearing a site before work starts, keeping erosion controls in place, and restoring it when work is done.
05General construction services
Preconstruction investigation, scheduling, site logistics and project management through construction.

Excavator loading fill into an articulated dump truck on a staked commercial building pad

Saw cut opened through an interior concrete slab on a VALOR job

VALOR mini excavator cutting a utility trench beside the company trailer

Hydroseeded slopes around a new commercial building, with silt fence and a filter bag on the storm inlet

Total station on a tripod over a staked-out commercial site, with a site trailer beyond

01 / 05Grading, drainage, earthwork

Recent
work

Real jobs across Central New York — what the site looked like, what we did, and what the client ended up with.

All work

VALOR worker in an open utility trench on a Syracuse job site

Utility service trench

Syracuse, NY

What we found: A new service line run through an established site with existing utilities in the corridor.
Result: Service in at proper cover with a trench line that will not sink into a trench-shaped depression a year later.
Scope of work: 01UDig NY (811) notification and marks confirmed before opening ground
02Open-cut trench to required depth and cover
03Line bedded in sand and inspected before backfill
04Backfilled and compacted in lifts to prevent later settlement
05Surface restored

VALOR skid steer moving earth during site preparation

Lot clearing and rough grade

Clay, NY

What we found: A wooded lot with no access route, needing to be build-ready ahead of foundation work.
Result: A lot the builder could start on immediately, with the excavation and clearing handled under one schedule.
Scope of work: 01Cleared and grubbed, stumps removed rather than buried
02Cut to rough grade with spoil balanced on site to limit truck traffic
03Building envelope set to plan elevation
04Access route stoned so concrete and lumber trucks could reach the pad

Where we work

Based in Syracuse. Work runs across Central New York and the Finger Lakes — six counties, from Oswego down to Ithaca.

CertificationNYS SDVOB

BaseSyracuse, NY

CoverageOnondaga County

InsuranceFully insured

HoursMon–Fri 7–5

Phone(844) 535-0331

Syracuse

Fayetteville

Manlius

DeWitt

Liverpool

Cicero

Clay

Camillus

LaFayette

Baldwinsville

North Syracuse

East Syracuse

Skaneateles

Marcellus

Ithaca

Cortland

Auburn

Oswego

Fulton

Oneida

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Compact track loader rough-grading a commercial building pad, with silt fence along the site edge and a steel frame going up behind

The company

VALOR Development LLC

A NYS certified service-disabled veteran owned civil and general construction contractor based in Syracuse, fully insured and registered, working commercial and public projects across Central New York and the Finger Lakes. Led by Billy Kittell, president & owner and USMC veteran.

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Contact

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