TW APR 2009
Jacobs engineer wins prestigious nastt award
Dr Glenn Boyce, a senior associate at San Francisco-based Jacobs Associates, has been named this year’s ‘Trenchless Person of the Year’ by the North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT). Full story...Global News
Jacobs engineer wins prestigious nastt award
Dr Glenn Boyce, a senior associate at San Francisco-based Jacobs Associates, has been named this year’s ‘Trenchless Person of the Year’ by the North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT). Full story...Lyle Schellenberg named new president of NUCA
US-based NUCA (the National Utility Contractors’ Association) has announced a new president. Full story...Insituform wins multi-million dollar Netherlands CIPP contract
Insituform Technologies, global provider of pipeline rehabilitation systems, has won a US$4million contract to rehabilitate over 3,000m of 914mm low-pressure pipe in the historic town of Zoetermeer in the Netherlands. Full story...New consulting service announced
Specialized Services Company (SSC) recently announced that it will soon be offering what it describes as a comprehensive trenchless consulting service, designed to improve the competitiveness of engineering firms in the current downturn. Full story...Features
What does the global market offer?
A wide selection of HDD drills is on offer from manufacturers based outside the US. Their quality ranges from next to useless to upper-end luxury, depending on the company and the resources they have to work with in their respective countries. Full story...Cutting renewal costs
Steven B Gross P.E. of US-based CertainTeed Corp reviews pipebursting as a method of pipe renewal and describes its use in a recent project in Texas Full story...Thriving in the Middle East
The first job entailed a pipe exchange to install a 760mm (30in) sacrificial steel casing and replace it with a new oil pipeline under the main highway between Damman and Riyadh. Full story...Auger boring is right on track in Lithuania
Installing a 630mm casing for a sewer line beneath railroad tracks was a tricky auger bore through rocky soil and heavy groundwater Full story...TECHNOLOGY: What’s new
Allied Construction Products (ACP) recently launched a new 50mm (2in class) underground piercing tool for the gas, water, sewer, electrical and telecoms markets. Full story...Bigger gets even better
Large horizontal directional drill (HDD) rigs are generally classified as any rig with over 50t (100,000lbs) pullback capability. As manufacturers raise this capacity, they must also increase the overall size of the machine needed to carry it. Full story...Hard times, but opportunities ahead
One of the most important aspects of the evaluation of the used HDD equipment market is historical trending in regard to pricing. Over the last eight years, my company has carefully tracked sales prices for all major makes and models of HDD drills. Full story...CIPP recharges power station
A recent CCTV survey of 30-year-old, 420mm-diameter, steel sea-water pipelines at Kilroot Power Station (KPS) near Belfast, Northern Ireland, revealed signs of severe encrustation and corrosion, with up to 30% of the pipe section obstructed in places. Corrosion of around 7m in the invert of one pipe had also occurred and water ingress was occurring elsewhere through numerous small holes. Full story...Site Search
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