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Aug 01, 2013 News Groundforce U Mole not only offers a range of trenchless technology equipment for the direct installation of new pipelines in the form of its range of US-designed and manufactured HammerHead impact and ramming hammers, it also offers the ability to aid other trenchless systems achieve greater production rates through difficult ground conditions. One such technique is Horizontal Directional Drilling (commonly known as HDD).
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Aug 05, 2013 News TT-UK LTD This summer has seen the dawn of a new era in Suction Excavation with Brenchley Civil Engineering being the first company in the UK to take delivery of the new TT-UK/RSP 7.5t City Sucker.
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Aug 06, 2013 News Olga Rosca The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is helping to provide safe water and improved sanitation for around half a million people in the Romanian counties of Bacău and Maramureș.
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Aug 07, 2013 News Verderflex, Verder Ltd The AySA San Martin plant situated in the heart of the city of Buenos Aires serves around 8 million people and treats around 3,000,000m³ of water a day). ALL PUMPS were able to be included in the initial stages of this project and were able to introduce peristaltic technology.
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Aug 08, 2013 News Simon Evans The bus-sized lump of wrongly-flushed festering food fat mixed with wet wipes formed in drains under London Road in Kingston, Surrey. Had it not been removed it could have led to sewage flooding many homes, streets and businesses in the leafy London suburb.
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Aug 09, 2013 News Achim Kühn The tunnel boring machine (TBM) "Harriet" successfully completed the second tube of the "Port of Miami Tunnel" at the beginning of May 2013. The TBM with a diameter of 12.86 meters mastered complex geological and hydrogeological challenges when crossing under the harbor twice. A machine concept was employed that Herrenknecht developed in collaboration with the client specifically for this ambitious project. The road tunnel will significantly alleviate the traffic congestion in the world's largest cruise port and the city center of Miami (Florida).
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Aug 12, 2013 News Jenny Hunter As water increasingly becomes one of the world’s most precious resources, IBM scientists are working with Arad Group, a world leader in reliable water meter systems, to help water companies and utilities around the globe provide more effective and efficient management of drinking water through the use of Big Data and advanced analytics technology.
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Aug 13, 2013 News Jeri Lamerton The Ditch Witch organization has re-engineered one of its best-selling horizontal directional drills, the JT2020, to create the Ditch Witch JT20, the most efficient and productive drill in its horsepower class.
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Aug 14, 2013 News Christi Fish Researchers at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) jointly announce they are investing $200,000 in new research to develop a low-cost method to treat flow-back water following hydraulic fracturing. Over the next year, the researchers will optimize an inexpensive charcoal product called biochar for the water treatment solution. It will be tested on water samples from the Eagle Ford Shale.
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Aug 15, 2013 News Axel Reiserer The EBRD is supporting improvements in the water services of Rijeka, Croatia’s third largest city, with a loan of up to €13 million. The funds will be extended to ViK Rijeka, the water and wastewater company majority owned by the City of Rijeka, and used to support investments in the rehabilitation of the water supply network and extension of the wastewater collection network.
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Aug 16, 2013 News Matt Demo The Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority (PWSA) Board of Directors has unanimously extended an innovative partnership with Veolia Water, the world leader in water and wastewater services and technology, to continue providing interim executive management services through December 2014.
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Aug 23, 2013 News HNTB Five-story-tall TBM will complete 1.75-mile journey under Seattle in 14 months. Tunneling recently began on the SR 99 Tunnel, which at 57.5 feet excavated diameter, will be the world’s largest TBM-bored tunnel. HNTB Corporation is lead designer for the Washington State Department of Transportation project as part of Seattle Tunnel Partners, a joint venture of Dragados USA and Tutor Perini Corporation.
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Aug 26, 2013 News Harmeet Bawa ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order to provide an instrumentation, control system and electrical equipment (ICE) package for a new water pipeline and pump station to be constructed in eastern Botswana to support growing demand driven by new mining ventures, power sector developments and a growing population around the capital, Gaborone.
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Aug 27, 2013 News Achim Kühn A large-diameter road tunnel will cross beneath the strait in Istanbul and expand the infrastructure bottleneck between Europe and Asia. The technical planning of the tunnelling operations poses complex challenges. Therefore, the construction consortium ordered a specially adapted tunnel boring machine from Herrenknecht. The 13.6 meter giant, a Mixshield, was completed in early July 2013 in Schwanau and is now on the way to the jobsite in Turkey.
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Aug 28, 2013 News Rob Bresnahan LarsonElectronics.com has announced the addition of the EXP-LED-RL-FX5R Explosion Proof Rechargeable LED Flashlight to its growing line of portable and handheld explosion proof lighting equipment. U.L. and ATEX approved for hazardous location lighting, the EXP-LED-RL-FX5R is Class 1 Division 1 certified and an ideal portable lighting solution for operators in hazardous locations who require more than just a simple flashlight.
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Aug 30, 2013 News Jeri Lamerton The Ditch Witch organization introduces UtiliGuard, a new utility locating system with numerous industry-first features that combine to offer unprecedented locating accuracy.
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Sep 02, 2013 News United Nations Headquarters Political leadership and concrete action have led to good progress on creating universal and sustainable access to decent sanitation and drinking water, but additional efforts are needed to fulfil commitments by the 2014 deadline, a United Nations-backed partnership reported.
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Sep 03, 2013 News Aleve Co Sembcorp is pleased to announce the expansion of its water business in China's Liaoning province with two new wastewater treatment projects in industrial parks in Panjin city. Its wholly-owned subsidiary Sembcorp China will sign agreements later today for new wastewater treatment projects in Panjin City's Panjin Fine Chemical Industrial Park and Panjin Liaodong Bay New District.
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Sep 04, 2013 News Tore Emanuelsson NIB and the Swedish drinking water producer Sydvatten AB has signed a loan agreement, totalling SEK 67 million (EUR 8 million), for improving the drinking water supply in southern Sweden.
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Sep 06, 2013 News Alexandra Dobnigg From an economic and ecological perspective, the importance of hydropower is definitely on the rise as it provides an array of advantages compared to other conventional methods of power generation. Despite the initial investment obstacle, small hydropower plants prove cost-effective thanks to their long service life of often more than 70 years and low maintenance costs.
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Sep 09, 2013 News Achim Kühn Two high-tech Herrenknecht tunnel boring machines completed an endurance test with bravura during long-distance tunnelling through the Pyrenees. After a total of 8.2 kilometers tunnelling through hard rock, the target line was reached with the final breakthrough in April 2013. The resulting cross-border tunnel project will be used for a high-voltage line to connect the French and Spanish electricity network with each other.
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Sep 10, 2013 News ASTM International ASTM Technology and Underground Utilities Committee to Work on Proposed Standards at October MeetingASTM International Committee F36 on Technology and Underground Utilities is developing several proposed new standards. Two such standards are ASTM WK39910, Practice for the Use of Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing for Monitoring Ground Movements Around Utilities and Tunnels, and ASTM WK41891, Practice for the Full-Length Monitoring of the Interface Temperature of a Cured in Place Pipe Lining Process.
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Sep 11, 2013 News Harumi Kodama The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have formed a new partnership agreement to expand and speed up access to safe sanitation in Asia and the Pacific.
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Sep 12, 2013 News Stephanie Wuensch A current Ceramic Polymer project: External coating of 90 km oil pipeline with "Proguard CN 100 iso"The "Proguard-Series" of Ceramic Polymer GmbH provides a tight cross linking of the polymer chains even at high substrate temperatures (Tg > 120°C)!
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Sep 16, 2013 News Olga Rosca The EU Cohesion Fund and the EBRD are joining forces to modernise and upgrade the water and wastewater services in Dolj, a county in the south of Romania.
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