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Dear Sir or Madam,
Here comes another issue of the UNITRACC newsletter with up-to-date news and articles from the world of pipeline construction and maintenance.
In the UNITRACC e-Journal you will find Part II 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 month's article deals with man-accessible utility tunnels and their structural design and commercial aspects.
Santa Claus is also busy getting his sleigh and reindeers ready for Christmas. Despite all the hard work Santa was so kind to help us with the UNITRACC Advent Calendar! And just in time on the 1 December you will be able to click the first window of the calendar open! You'll see there is a connection between Christmas and underground infrastructure…
Enjoy reading and exploring the underground with UNITRACC!
Your UNITRACC Team
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News
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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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Siemens AG
Siemens Water Technologies focuses on innovations for water reuse and wastewater treatment
"Water reuse is on the rise as global demand for the world's fresh water supplies increases. By recycling and reusing treated wastewater, communities and industries can save on the costs of clean w...
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Thames Water Utilities Ltd.
Stone Age man used to live at Berkshire sewage works - prehistoric flintwork and signs of Roman settlement found near Kintbury
Ten millennia-worth of history have been unearthed by Thames Water at one of its sewage treatment works in Berkshire.
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AlpTransit Gotthard AG
Gotthard Base Tunnel: Second tunnel boring machine arrives in Faido
After driving some 13.5 km – three years and eight months after starting out from Bodio – the second tunnel boring machine reached the multifunction station at Faido. The breakthrough t...
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Plastics Europe
Review of Pipes Conference
Now that the Plastics Pipes XIII Conference is concluded, review of this landmark event is worthwhile.
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Vinci
Vinci wins contract to build two tunnels in the United States
Vinci Construction Grands Projets, leader of a consortium with two American companies – Parsons RCI Inc. and Frontier-Kemper Constructors, Inc. – has signed a contract with King County ...
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North American Society for Trenchless Technology [NASTT]
Call for Nominations - 2007 NASTT Board of Directors
Election time is nearing, and the Nominating Committee of NASTT will be selecting a slate of candidates for two expired terms and one vacancy for the 2007 NASTT Board of Directors.
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Tunnelling Association of Canada (TAC)
Lovat provides soft-rock earth pressure balance tunnel boring machine for twin tunnels in Vancouver
Lovat has been selected by the SNC LAVALIN - Società di Esecuzione Lavori Idraulici (SELI) SpA JV to supply a soft-rock earth pressure balance tunnel boring machine. The EPB-TBM will be used t...
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Messe München GmbH
bauma China 2006: more than 1000 exhibitors have committed to bauma China
- 150,000 square meters of exhibition space already booked
- Strong interest from the Asian market
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International Tunnelling Association [ITA]
Successful 2nd International Symposium "Safe & reliable Tunnels" and inauguation of the ITA COSUF
The 2nd International Symposium "Safe & Reliable Tunnels -Innovative European Achievments" was held in Lausanne, at the EPFL. It gathered during two days some 160 participants coming fro...
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Southern Water
Tunnel giant pulled from the deep
This summer, residents and visitors to Margate will have noticed a large barge off the coast at Foreness Point. The barge, Excalibur, was positioned ready to lift a 58-tonne tunnel-boring machine o...
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Dipl.-Ing. Robert Stein (Bochum, Germany)
Master plan for a sustainable supply and disposal infrastructure of mega cities - Part II
This is the second part of the technical report series “Master plan for a sustainable supply and disposal infrastructure of mega cities”. It is exclusively about utility tunnels with ...
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The European Plastics Pipes and Fittings Association [TEPPFA]
Sustainable construction
Frank Jones believes that sustainable construction is one of the major challenges and therefore opportunities that currently face European pipe technology. As director of the Pipes Group for the Br...
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Easy Liner GmbH
ThermoLiner plus - the highly flexible liner for negotiating sharp bends and dimension variations in house connections
The use of flexible tube liners in the rehabilitation of house connection pipes has taken hold as a technically mature alternative to costly "dig-out" repairs. Frequently, those house connection pi...
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Sandvik Rocktools (Sweden)
Korean tunnel success for new Sandvik rock tool
Korean contractor Sung Bo Development is achieving a 30% increased life span of its Sandvik Alpha tool system and eliminated rod 'gooseneck' breakages on highway tunnel drilling through difficult, ...
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Calendar
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2006 2nd Asian Pipeline Conference and Exhibition
21.11.2006 - 22.11.2006
The Trans-ASEAN Gas Pipeline and other Asian gas development projects are an integral part of the worldwide trend towards greater use of natural gas in meeting energy demand growth. The 2006 Asian ...
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