CHB Excavation, Inc.

CHB Excavation handles the machine end of a project: the trenches, the utility runs, the ground moved before anyone frames a wall. Its own site and its Better Business Bureau profile describe the same work — earthwork, underground utilities, site development and site improvements, trucking, and snow services — for residential and commercial jobs across Eastern Massachusetts, with 24-hour emergency availability the company advertises. Calvin Brandford owns it. BBB lists a 15-employee corporation at the Westford address with an A+ grade, though the business is not BBB accredited. Two state registrations do check out: the Massachusetts Supplier Diversity Office shows CHB's Minority Business Enterprise certification active through April 2027, and its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise certification active as well — the credentials that carry weight on publicly funded and prime-contractor work. The company's age is the one thing sources don't agree on. Its site says CHB was established in 1988 to answer what customers disliked about excavating contractors — missed deadlines, inconsistent quality, high prices — and headlines both 38 years and over 35 years. BBB records the business as started and incorporated on 7/2/2003, which would make it 23. Worth asking which date they mean. There is no customer trail to read. BBB publishes no reviews, no complaint count and no government actions on the profile, and nothing else here speaks to how the jobs actually go — which is why no rating is given. For site work on a house project — a foundation dig, a utility connection, earthwork before the build, or snow clearing in winter — this is an established, state-certified Westford outfit with real crews behind it. Ask for two or three recent references at the scale of your job, and get the scope and the dig schedule in writing.