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Aug 25, 2008 News North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT) The South Tahoe Public Utility District (STPUD) is pleased to offer a special one-day Sewer Laterals Rehabilitation & Replacement Good Practices Course, Wed., Sept. 3, 2008, at its offices in South Lake Tahoe, California. The training is developed and conducted by the North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT).
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Jun 10, 2010 News HOBAS Rohre GmbH The international pipe producer HOBAS has opened the world’s most modern research center for glassfiber reinforced plastics (GRP) pipe systems in Wietersdorf, Austria. After a year of construction works and an investment of 1.1 million euros the HOBAS TechCenter was inaugurated on April 30th.
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Jul 25, 2008 News Thames Water Utilities Thames Water has applied for planning permission to build and operate a 'super-sewer' that will help prevent sewage overflowing into the River Lee during heavy rainfall.
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Aug 21, 2006 News Vulkan-Verlag Essen This illustrated book contains the practical world of HDD technology, machines, tools, soil tests, drilling fluid mixture, job site preparation, bore planning, drilling process, reaming, pipe laying and pipe embedding in the ground, job documentation, the range of different applications, job sites reports from different parts of Europe and Arabia and in the jobsite reports an enormous source of solutions for practical doing.
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Jun 04, 2009 News Sydney Water Work to restore one of Sydney’s oldest sewers has earned Sydney Water an engineering excellence award from the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia. The Hay Street stormwater channel, which was built as a sewer in 1863 and converted to a stormwater channel in the early 1900s, was awarded the Streets Opening Conference Engineering Heritage Award at the Institute’s NSW Division Excellence Awards in Sydney last night.
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Nov 26, 2007 News EPS Ethylen-Pipeline-Süd GmbH & Co. KG The first shovel of earth has been turned for the construction of the Ethylene Pipeline South (EPS). The start of excavation in Gaimersheim near Ingolstadt, Germany, marked the beginning of work on the first of 360 kilometers of pipeline in the EPS. Plans call for the pipeline to reach from Münchsmünster in Bavaria across Baden-Württemberg to Ludwigshafen in Rhineland-Palatinate. Once put into service – planned for September 2008 – the pipeline will connect ethylene producers and processors in southeastern Bavaria with the ethylene center in Northwest Europe.
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Nov 24, 2010 News TT UK Ltd. Following the success of the NO-DIG Live event held in 2008 at the Royal Showground in Warwickshire UK, the exhibition organisers Westrade Fair decided that due to ease of vehicular access, good on site parking and its central geographical location, to again hold the 10th bi-annual Trenchless Technology Exhibition (NO-DIG) at this prestigious showground.
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Sep 07, 2009 News Applied Market Information Ltd. The construction industry in some sectors of the Gulf has taken a hit from the current recession, however as projects are refinanced building is resuming and demand is expected to rise again for plastics pipe.
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Apr 23, 2009 News TT-UK Ltd Buderus Giesserei Wetzlar GmbH, the ductile iron pipe manufacturer from Wetzlar, invited their sales partners and customers from many European countries to visit the TT Group Headquarters in Lennestadt, a leading manufacturer in trenchless installation technology.
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Jan 16, 2008 News Great Southern Press When shove comes to push. James Thomson has the answers.
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Aug 16, 2006 News Ofwat [Water Services Regulation Authority] Leakage by water companies in England and Wales fell by around 20 million litres a day (Ml/d) in 2005-06, figures released today by Ofwat reveal. Overall leakage in England and Wales was close to 3,600 Ml/d, compared to nearly 5,000 Ml/d just a decade earlier.
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Jun 29, 2009 News Colorado School of Mines GOLDEN, Colo.: The Colorado School of Mines, in conjunction with TBM: Tunnel Business Magazine and Microtunneling, Inc., presents "Breakthroughs in Tunneling" - a three-day Tunnel Short Course that will cover all aspects of conventional and mechanized tunnel design and construction in hard rock, soft ground and soils. The Short Course will be held Sept. 23-25 on the School of Mines campus in Golden, Colorado, USA.
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Jul 14, 2008 News Robbins 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 deployment of 14 TBMs — a record for simultaneous tunneling in India. In the last week of June 2008, the second of two Robbins/MHI EPBs was launched on a new set of tunnels for the metro, bringing the city’s plans one step closer to realization.
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Jan 02, 2008 News Thames Water Utilities Boffins at Thames Water have come up with up a new invention to reduce the millions of litres of water lost through leaking pipes by up to a quarter.
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Jul 28, 2008 News Yorkshire Water Two giant pumps which will provide emergency back-up in the event of extreme weather have arrived at the Bransholme surface water pumping station.
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Jul 09, 2009 News Sydney Water Bondi residents are helping protect local waterways and reduce sewer overflows in the beachside suburb by removing tree roots from their private sewerage pipes. Sydney Water Managing Director Kerry Schott thanked Bondi residents for their positive response to a recent trial that identified tree roots entering the public sewerage system from privately-owned pipes.
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Aug 01, 2006 News Solvay S.A. and Egeplast Werner Strumann GmbH & Co. KG Solvay announces today that it has concluded an agreement for the transfer of its HexelOneTM reinforced plastic pipe technology to Egeplast Werner Strumann GmbH & Co. KG, the German polyethylene pipes manufacturer. The HexelOneTM process allows the production of high resistance, large diameter tubing for water and gas distribution networks with considerably improved environmental performance. The process was developed by Solvay's New Business Development (NBD) team at the Group's Research & Technology campus in Neder-over-Heembeek, Belgium.
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Aug 07, 2009 News Water Environment Federation (WEF) Alexandria, Va. - The Water Environment Federation (WEF) will present TMDL 2009: Combining Science and Management to Restore Impaired Waters from August 9-12, 2009 at the Hilton Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minn. Co-sponsored by the Central States Water Environment Association, with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Advisory Committee on Water Information, and the Water Environment Research Foundation, this conference will focus on the Clean Water Act and the full scope of pollutants that impact our nation’s water bodies.
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Aug 05, 2009 News HOBAS Hungary Kft. Secure Raw Water Supply and Discharge from Pécs to Szekszárd
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Mar 09, 2009 News TT UK Ltd. In 2007/8 a pioneering HDD project was started using Trenchless Technology on the Berri Causeway and Abu Ali Island on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia. Two parallel 3,050 metre long steel pipelines were to be installed under the bay. The smaller one to be used as an oil trunk line (24'') and the larger one with a total steel pipe weight of more than 1,500 tonnes will serve as a water injection line (30''). Previously published press releases claimed these as the ‘world’s longest undersea HDD crossings ever undertaken.
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Nov 03, 2006 News Plastics Europe Now that the Plastics Pipes XIII Conference is concluded, review of this landmark event is worthwhile.
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Dec 07, 2005 News IKA Werke GmbH & Co. KG Globalization, economic growth, and the abolishment of borders within Europe have resulted in a continuous increase in heavy goods traffic. These ever rising traffic levels have led to a continuously increasing strain on our traffic surfaces in both road and airport construction. In order to satisfy these requirements, more and more polymer modified binding agents (i.e. bitumen) are used in asphalt production.
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Dec 13, 2006 News Severn Trent Water Severn Trent Water is waging war on leaks throughout the winter period after employing more staff to battle the bursts.
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Jul 30, 2007 News Thames Water The security of London’s future water supplies is more certain today after the Government confirmed it has granted planning permission for the Thames Gateway Desalination Plant, in Beckton.
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Nov 23, 2009 News Dave Guerin (Louisiana Tech University) Innovations gaining attention of entrepreneurs, industries nationwide
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