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UNITRACC News Issue: June 2008   

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HOBAS Engineering GmbH

Poland drives HOBAS pipes round the bend

An impressive pipe project in Poland's capital Warsaw is expected to be completed mid summer 2008: To relieve the down-town sewer collector and to transport wastewater to the new treatment plant "C...
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Insituform Technologies

Insituform awarded $4.25 million contract to rehabilitate water main line on New York City's Madison Avenue

Insituform Technologies, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a $4.25 million contract to rehabilitate a century-old water main line running beneath Madison Avenue in New York City, one of the b...
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GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam

Echo in the mountain: Sonar technology for application in tunnel excavation

Technology Transfer Award 2008 for the detection of disturbance zones during tunnel construction
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Colorado School of Mines

Colorado School of Mines Offers Tunnel Short Course

One-of-a-Kind Course Set for September 10-12
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North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT)

2009 International No-Dig Toronto Call for Abstracts

Deadline: June 13, 2008
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Trelleborg AB

Trelleborg increases presence in the market for pipe seals

Acquires US company NPC Inc. with SEK 110 M in sales
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The Robbins Company

Robbins TBM rises above water inflows in China

Deep in a sheer-walled canyon at the foot of China's Jinping Mountain, crews are working 24 hours a day to assemble a giant. The 12.4 m (40.1 ft) diameter behemoth, a Main Beam TBM manufactured by...
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TT-UK Ltd

ScotPlant 2008 continues to prove successful for TT-UK at the Royal Showground Edinburgh

Following on from the success of 2006, TT-UK continues to increase its supply and support for all its Scottish based customers exhibiting its wide and technically advanced range of Trenchless Techn...
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Ofwat

Ofwat recommends opening water and sewerage markets to competition

Ofwat has published the second part of its review of competition in the water and sewerage sectors. In it they recommend that contestable water and sewerage markets are opened to competition where ...
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Robbins Company

Robbins TBM all wrapped up in Iceland

Tunneling at the massive Kárahnjúkar Hydroelectric Project is now complete with the recent breakthrough of a Robbins TBM at the Jökulsá Diversion Tunnel. On April 9, 2008, the ...
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Article

Dipl. Eng. JM. Joussin1, Dr O. Thépot2

The structural design of large non-circular GRP prefabricated linings

As happened in the UK, 20 years ago, when the WRc started to work on the Sewer Rehabilitation Manual (SRM), in 1999 the French ministry of Public Works decided to launch a National Project of Resea...
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M. Rameil (Tracto-Technik GmbH & Co.KG, Lennestadt, Germany ), M. Seck (Paul SPEECK GmbH, Dortmund, Germany)

Trenchless sewer pipe renovation using the new tight-in-pipe method in the congested streets of the City of Dortmund, Germany

This paper introduces the Tight-in-Pipe Method. Tight-in-pipe is the term of a method for renovating sewer pipes and laterals with new, slightly smaller pipes in the same path without the need for ...
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Francesco Bresciani and Francesco Peri (Istituto Italiano della Saldatura (Italian Institute of Welding) Genoa, Italy)

Guided Waves inspection of pipelines: experiences of Italian Institute of Welding

The article shows the experiences of the Italian Institute of Welding in inspection of above ground pipelines and road crossings using advanced diagnostic techniques, above all Guided Waves technol...
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Gerhard Lang, Dr.-Ing., MBA

Long distance (micro-) tunneling with polymer concrete

Polymer concrete Technology dates back to the early 1960’s. It was developed in order to provide corrosion resistant conduits especially for the chemical industry. Municipalities in Europe st...
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Calendar

Trenchless Technology Summit 2008

13.07.2008 - 16.07.2008

The construction industry across the Middle East has recently suppressed a trillion dollars. Trenchless technologies are now becoming increasingly applicable to the area as the construction of sett...
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