TW July/August 2010
West London gas line wins green award
A gas pipeline installation project in west London, which includes 28 auger bores, eight pipejacks and a segmentally-lined TBM-driven tunnel, has been awarded a 2010 CEEQUAL ‘Excellent’ Award for environmental and sustainability performance Full story...Caterpillar acquires geophysical specialist
Caterpillar has acquired New York-based Underground Imaging Technologies (UIT), a specialist in geophysical technology and services Full story...PPE seals five-year accord with Lanes Group
Performance Pump & Equipment (PPE), one of the UK’s largest independent pump equipment companies, has announced a ‘long-term, strategic partnership’ with Lanes Group, the largest independent drain specialist in the UK Full story...Insituform wins huge HK drainage contract
Insituform Technologies announced last month that it has started work on a US$17 million, two-project package for the Drainage Services Department in Hong Kong, where it has been involved in pipeline rehabilitation jobs since 2005 Full story...
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West London gas line wins green award
A gas pipeline installation project in west London, which includes 28 auger bores, eight pipejacks and a segmentally-lined TBM-driven tunnel, has been awarded a 2010 CEEQUAL ‘Excellent’ Award for environmental and sustainability performance Full story...
McElroy debuts fusion machine
Pipe-fusion specialist McElroy recently launched its 1LC fusion machine, designed for butt-fusing polyethylene pipes from ½in CTS to 1in IPS (16-34mm) Full story...Novel water mains cleaner recognised
Gateshead-based Hydrascan’s Typhoon water-mains cleaning system has won an innovation award at the recent Kurt’s awards ceremony in Birmingham, England Full story...Geospatial fills key positions
Pittsburgh-based Geospatial Holdings has made three new appointments at senior executive level, all concerned with business development Full story...Caterpillar acquires geophysical specialist
Caterpillar has acquired New York-based Underground Imaging Technologies (UIT), a specialist in geophysical technology and services Full story...PPE seals five-year accord with Lanes Group
Performance Pump & Equipment (PPE), one of the UK’s largest independent pump equipment companies, has announced a ‘long-term, strategic partnership’ with Lanes Group, the largest independent drain specialist in the UK Full story...SASTT launches first-ever standard for sliplining
Following a lengthy period of research and investigation, the South African Society for Trenchless Technology (SASTT) has developed a standard for sliplining Full story...Insituform wins huge HK drainage contract
Insituform Technologies announced last month that it has started work on a US$17 million, two-project package for the Drainage Services Department in Hong Kong, where it has been involved in pipeline rehabilitation jobs since 2005 Full story...Innovation fosters safer pipebursting
ABS Trenchless has claimed its newest-generation pipebursting machines have a special pulling rope that allows the completion of jobs hitherto impossible Full story...Features
Eco-plastic eases pipe lining
Lining a large-diameter host pipe usually involves overcoming huge friction, but a new material looks set to make it a lot easier Full story...
Saving time and money
Ian Clarke reports on a novel docking device used on a cable-based pipeburster Full story...Rapid HDD beneath the Po
Giovanni Polloni, Alessandro Olcese and Siro Polloni report on a tricky HDD installation to bypass an ageing oil pipeline beneath Italy’s Po river Full story...Pumping up the advance
Stephanie Hassler, Mike Delsingaro and Mike Ramos of Godwin Pumps outline some of the latest developments in bypass pumping Full story...Condition assessment in China
China faces huge challenges in terms of rehabilitating and installing water-supply infrastructure. Mike Stadnyckyj looks at some of the pipeline condition assessment technologies being used Full story...Rooting out the problem
Oklahoma City suffered root-caused blockages until it embarked on a chemical control programme. Debbie Ragan of Oklahoma City Utilities Department reports Full story...Issue: TW July/August 2010
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