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Hatch Mott MacDonald

Los Angeles World Airport awards three-year contract to Hatch Mott MacDonald

Hatch Mott MacDonald has been selected by Los Angeles World Airport (LAWA) to serve as prime consultant on LAWA’s Engineering Services team. Hatch Mott MacDonald will provide engineering desi...
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Robbins

Robbins/MHI EPBs commence dual tunnels in Delhi

In 2010, New Delhi will host the Commonwealth Games, bringing an expected 5.5 million visitors and a surge in the need for commuter services. A new extension of the city’s metro involves the...
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TT UK Ltd

Grundopit under house drilling

Shareridge Limited, a utility contractor based in Waterford contacted TT Ireland (www.tt-ireland.com) to carry out a demonstration using a Grundopit 40/60 mini-directional boring system for the pro...
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TERRA AG

Big-Boy arrives in South Africa

Trenchless Technologies CC, based in Johannesburg, was founded in 1991 and has been the TERRA distributor in Southern Africa since 1993. They undertake several kilometres of pipe and cable laying u...
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Insituform Technologies

Insituform wins millions of Dollars in contracts to rehabilitate drinking water lines

New contracts for trenchless rehabilitation of potable water lines by Insituform Technologies, Inc. demonstrate that the company is developing the kind of dynamic market for solutions in the drinki...
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Thames Water Utilities

150 years on from the 'Great Stink' - London needs sewers fit for the 21st Century

The River Thames is one of the cleanest metropolitan rivers in the world, home to 120 species of fish and aquatic life. However, without the vision of the Victorians, who designed the sewer s...
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TT-UK Ltd

1000mm pipe cutter from the TT Group

The new roller blade is not exactly an everyday contractor’s tool.
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Thames Water Utilities

London's desalination plant clears final hurdle

Mayor’s decision to drop court action a ‘victory for common sense’, says Owens
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Article

René-Claude Fouilloux and JF Maregiano

The French way to upgrade pipe installation projects: Les Chartes de Qualité.

In order to improve the quality of sewers pipe installation projects, the French Authorities and in particular the French water agencies have created a committee with all the main participants like...
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Alexander Farnsworth (Trelleborg AB)

Giant gaskets seal underground highway tunnel

In Madrid, Spain, an underground highway tunnel will help reduce traffic congestion. Like moles, two massive tunnel boring machines have inched their way forward, leaving a walled tunnel behind. Ga...
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A.C.D. Royal1, D.V.L. Hunt1, C.D.F. Rogers1, D.N. Chapman1 and M.A. Polak2

Modelling of HDD pipeline frictional resistance, and extruded microtunnelling linings for long-distance 'cable pipe' installations

The supply of power to the major centres of population must be assured to satisfy economic and social demands. Small-scale local generation plant, such as roof-mounted wind generators and solar pan...
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Calendar

UNW-DPC and UN-Habitat International Workshop: Drinking Water Loss Reduction

03.09.2008 - 05.09.2008

The UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC) hosted by UNU at UN Campus in Bonn, is a joint programme of UN Agencies and Programmes cooperating within the framework of UN-Water. ...
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