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UNITRACC News Issue: December 2006   

Welcome


Dear Sir or Madam,

December has come and with it the last issue of the UNITRACC Newsletter in 2006. Nevertheless, we have not run out interesting news and articles from the field of underground infrastructure.

In the UNITRACC e-Journal you will find the third and final part of the article series Master plan for a sustainable supply and disposal infrastructure of mega cities written by UNITRACC editor Dipl.-Ing. Robert Stein. This time the article deals with materials and methods of construction as well as other concepts of multiple installation besides utility tunnels.

We all know Christmas is around corner, and for the last two weeks the UNITRACC start page has already been wrapped in a nice seasonal design.
In many countries all over the world Advent Calendars tell their owners how many days are left until Christmas, most of the time with chocolate and other sweets behind each window. Now have a look at our UNITRACC version! Each window holds a little surprise or entertaining oddity from the field of pipeline construction and maintenance.

The Unitracc-Team wishes all readers a peaceful and merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Enjoy reading and exploring the underground with UNITRACC!

Your UNITRACC Team

Content

News

Severn Trent Water

Waging war on leaks

Severn Trent Water is waging war on leaks throughout the winter period after employing more staff to battle the bursts.
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North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT)

Northwest Chapter to host Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) Good Practices Guidelines Training

The Northwest Chapter of the North American Society for Trenchless Technology is pleased to offer a two-day Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) Good Practices Guidelines Course, Jan. 25-26 at the...
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Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat)

Water companies should prepare for another dry winter

Water companies must be prepared in case there is another dry winter and ensure that they have sufficient supplies to meet next summer's demands, Ofwat said today.
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Atlas Copco Zambia Ltd

Atlas Copco wins large order to supply mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Atlas Copco has won an order worth more than MSEK 100 (MEUR 11) to supply underground mining equipment for blast hole drilling, rock bolting, loading and haulage for the Kamoto Mine in the Democrat...
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Vinci

Sogea Construction (Vinci) is to build three wastewater treatment plants and a drinking water plant in France

Sogea Construction has secured the contract for the reconstruction of the wastewater treatment plant serving the Angers Loire Métropole agglomeration. The new plant will occupy an area of 90,0...
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Lovat, Inc.

Combined Sewage Overflow (CSO) Pogues Run Consolidation Indianapolis Indiana USA

Last year Super Excavators Inc. contracted Lovat to design and custom manufacture a 4.2 meter (167”) diameter mixed face Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machine along with associated anc...
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Enviro-Chemie

Enviro-Chemie builds treatment center for liquid waste in Jradou, Tunesia

Enviro-Chemie as a European specialist for economical industrial wastewater and water recycling engineering realises a project in Tunesia in co-operation with Dywidag.
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Dipl.- Ing. Rainer Hermes

A successful performance for M-Coating in Cornwall

At a location where films for the big screen and TV are made, Perco Engineering Services Ltd has starred in a feature of its own. M-Coating, the shaft coating system with ERGELIT-KS1, will in futur...
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Borealis AG

Borealis BorECO™ ensures smooth flow for REHAU® sewer project

Borealis, provider of plastics solutions, has recently supplied REHAU® with BorECO™ BA 212E, a highly developed polypropylene (PP) for pipe systems. As one of the m...
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Article

Dipl.-Ing. Robert Stein (Bochum, Germany)

Master plan for a sustainable supply and disposal infrastructure of mega cities - Part III

This is the third and last part of the technical report series "Master plan for a sustainable supply and disposal infrastructure of mega cities". It deals with materials and methods of construction...
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Trenchless Australasia

Sungei Pandan pipe jack completed ahead of schedule

The excavation of the 2.4 metre internal diameter, 675 metre Sungei Pandan pipe jack tunnel, which is being built to accommodate three transmission powercable circuits, was completed on 22 October ...
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Emunds und Staudinger GmbH

New district heating lines for Business Park Hannover-Nord - An unconventional solution

With a combination of pipe-ramming and horizontal direction drilling, Meyder GmbH Kanal und Tiefbau has laid two district heating lines beneath Vahrenwalder Strasse on the Hannover-Langenhagen city...
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Dr.-Ing. Nicole Metje [University of Birmingham]

Mapping the Underworld (MTU)

Many of the UK's existing buried assets were laid in Victorian times when the need to record accurate details of location and depth was not a priority. Even if such records were made, the referenc...
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Calendar

2006 Seattle Trenchless Technology Symposium, Washington

15.12.2006

This symposium focuses on the fundamentals of engineering design for trenchless technology, including horizontal directional drilling (HDD) and microtunneling.This one-day symposium consists of pre...
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All events in December/January

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New on UNITRACC


Unitracc Advent Calendar

With our Advent Calendar the UNITRACC-Team would like to brighten up your weeks before Christmas.
Everyday a window in our festively decorated sewer is waiting to be opened!
Disclose the secret that hides behind each window!

To the UNITRACC Advent Calendar
 
 

The Editor's note

Dear UNITRACC-Users,
Robert Stein
Dipl.-Ing.
Robert Stein

As the editor of UNITRACC I would like to take the opportunity to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!


A busy and eventful year has passed and during this time UNITRACC has grown in all its areas.
Only in March we officially launched the international version of UNITRACC at the No-Dig Show in Nashville, which was excellently supported and organized by the NASTT. Again my compliments and a great thank you for your efforts.
The eLearning course "Trenchless 101" can be considered a result of the cooperation between UNITRACC and the NASTT. "Trenchless 101" will be available on UNITRACC in spring next year.
Besides the USA, this year also took me to various countries all over the world to present UNITRACC. One extremely exciting and impressive highlight, of course, was the No-Dig Conference and Exhibition in Brisbane, Australia.

But nevertheless, all travels again confirmed the fact that there is a growing demand for high-quality eLearning all over the world -
a feature UNITRACC will focus on even stonger in the future.

At the beginning of this year Knowledge Factory GmbH was founded as the operating company of UNITRACC. This step became necessary to meet the increasing demand of our users more flexibly.

This is where I would like to thank you for your loyalty and support.
The UNITRACC-Team is looking forward to another exciting year and will do the very best to continue to provide you with the quality you are used to.

Seasons greetings,

Dipl.-Ing. Robert Stein
 
 

Finalist:
Medida-Prix 2004

Award:
Europäischer E-Learning Award 2004

Award:
NO-DIG Award 2005

Sponsored by:
German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Technology

The Association of the German Building Industry:
Association of the German Building Industry.
 
 

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