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22.04.2009
Cured-in-Place-Pipe (CIPP) Good Practices Course
The North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT) and Tri-State Utilities are pleased to sponsor a special two-day Cured-in-Place-Pipe (CIPP) Good Practices Course, April 28-29, 2009 in Richmond, Virginia.
mehr21.04.2009
2nd Annual Trenchless Technology Summit
Minimising cost, time, disruption and environmental disturbance through effective trenchless application - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2009: Robert Stein, CEO of S & P Consult GMBH will chair IQPC's 2nd Annual Trenchless Technology Summit taking place in Abu Dhabi on 7-10 June 2009 at the Hilton Hotel. Andy Wedgner, Project Division Manager, ADDC, will deliver the keynote speech, focusing on the practical, economical and environmental benefits to adopting trenchless technology.
mehr16.04.2009
Special Pipe for Gatehampton Project
The supply of polyethylene pipes to Thames Water's Gatehampton Borehole Upgrade Project has called for a measured approach by GPS PE Pipe Systems. Pipework operating pressures and local access restrictions were studied in depth by the manufacturer, before delivering the best-value/cost solution.
mehr14.04.2009
Water Environment Federation Hosts Second Webcast on Economic Stimulus Funding
Webcast Highlighted Next Steps for Securing Funds for Wastewater Projects: Alexandria, Va. – The Water Environment Federation (WEF) hosted the second of two webcasts on 24th March to help members and the water quality community learn how to secure economic stimulus funding for wastewater projects. Passed last month, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) includes more than $7 billion for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure. The first webcast provided information about project eligibility, application requirements, and the expected timing of the stimulus funding.
mehr09.04.2009
PE Below Ground Barrier Pipes Score On Sustainability
Barrier pipes' ability to deliver clean, untainted drinking water and offer relatively high sustainability is well suited to growing reclamation technologies that treat contamination on-site.
mehr08.04.2009
Ditch Witch JT3020 All Terrain Improves HDD Productivity
PERRY, Okla. — The Ditch Witch® JT3020 All Terrain features all terrain technology, one of the Ditch Witch organization’s many patented innovations designed to simplify the HDD process. One of the company’s breakthrough innovations was the slant-faced drill bit, which revolutionized the industry by enabling HDD operators to steer the drill head. All Terrain technology improves upon the steering process with a patented dual-drive pipe system, which enables the JT3020 All Terrain to drill and steer at the same time. This is an advantage over single-rod systems, which are not capable of steering as well, if at all, in consolidated soils. The inner pipe of the JT3020 All Terrain’s two-pipe drill string continuously turns the drill bit at 150 to 400 RPM, depending on the soil, resulting in exceptionally efficient boring.
mehr06.04.2009
Trenchless Consulting Services (TCS) Improves Competitiveness in a Volatile Construction Market
Specialized Services Co., (SSC) today announced their intent to offer comprehensive trenchless consulting services designed to help engineering and design firms improve their competitiveness as they adapt to the downturn in the construction market.
mehr01.04.2009
HOBAS® for a Positive CO2 Balance
The world's largest producer of rails and turnouts is VOEST Alpine Eisenbahn GmbH (VAEE). With its 700 employees it is also one of the largest employers in Zeltweg, Austria. A high demand on electricity is however necessary for the production so that the current high energy prices induced the management to look for a more attractive power source.
mehr30.03.2009
Best Major Scheme Award Win for Murphy
The prize was scooped by Murphy for the Victorian Mains Replacement Scheme (VMR) being undertaken for Thames Water Utilities to provide a robust, rationalised and fit for purpose water distribution network in London.
mehr27.03.2009
VINCI wins contract to build a pumping station in Qatar
Through a consortium made up of subsidiaries VINCI Construction Grands Projets (leader), Entrepose Contracting and QDVC (a Qatari subsidiary owned 49% by VINCI Construction Grands Projets and 51% by Qatari Diar), VINCI has signed a contract with the Doha Public Works Authority, PWA Ashghal, to build a pumping station to the north of Doha, capital of Qatar.
mehr25.03.2009
Robbins EPB Surpasses Records on New Delhi Metro
In February 2009, one of two Robbins EPBs boring India’s New Delhi Metro conquered a new feat. The machine achieved a weekly advance rate of 168 rings, or 202 m (663 ft)-the highest advance rate amongst any of the 14 TBMs used on the metro project.
mehr23.03.2009
New PE-RT resin completes portfolio used in hot water pipe applications
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - LyondellBasell Industries has launched a new raised-temperature-resistant polyethylene resin (PE-RT) to complete its range of materials used in plumbing and underfloor heating. Produced using LyondellBasell’s Advanced Cascade Process (ACP), the new Hostalen 4731B high density PE resin exhibits excellent long-term creep performance and thermal stability and can therefore be taken into consideration for pipe applications. The PE-RT Type II material, which meets ISO standard 24033, is the latest addition to LyondellBasell’s range of cross-linked polyethylene, random copolymer polypropylene and polybutene-1 materials used in demanding applications such as hot water pressure pipes.
mehr18.03.2009
Water Environment Federation Partners with the Alliance for Water Stewardship
Partnership will promote and recognize good practices among large water users and providers: Alexandria, Va. – The Water Environment Federation (WEF) announces a new partnership with the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS), an international group of like-minded organizations that promotes responsible use of water resources. Passed last month by WEF's Board of Trustees, the resolution formalizes the Federation’s participation in a 3-year plan to help develop a set of principles and good practices for large water users and providers, including industry and all types of water utilities.
mehr16.03.2009
Black & Veatch and HGBD earn award for sewer tunnel replacement program in Charleston
Collection System Improvements Sustain Environment and City's Historic Charm: Black & Veatch, in association with Hussey, Gay, Bell & DeYoung, Inc. (HGBD), has received the 2009 Engineering Excellence Honor Award for design and construction management of Charleston Water System’s Sewer Tunnel Replacement Program.
mehr13.03.2009
HOBAS® - and the Heat Is On: Relining Cooling Pipes in Bremen, Germany
The German city Bremen obtains a part of its required energy from one coal-fired cogeneration plant situated in the harbor and consisting of two blocks with an output of 400 MW. A mediumcaloric power plant is currently constructed at the same site and will supply further 29 MW as well as district heat. This output covers the energy consumption of 90.000 households.
mehr11.03.2009
Omdurman Water Supply and Optimisation Scheme, Sudan
Biwater has been involved in the provision of water treatment facilities to the continent of Africa for many years. Never has the need for the provision of clean, safe, potable water been a higher priority within the burgeoning populations of the nations of Africa than at the present time. The United Nations' millennium development goals have pledged to 'reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water' and many of you will know that the millennium development goals were set to be achieved by the year 2015. Biwater is pleased to report that it will help to achieve this goal for a large number of people in what is a new African territory for Biwater, the Republic of Sudan.
mehr09.03.2009
Grundoram to the rescue: Grundoram Taurus rescues long undersea HDD recovery operation on the Berri Causeway project in Saudi Arabia
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.
mehr06.03.2009
Richard Robbins Receives Franklin Medal for TBM Development
On April 23, 2009, Richard J. Robbins, President and CEO of The Robbins Company from 1958 to 1993, will accept the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Engineering. He is following in a long line of greats-previous recipients include Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Stephen Hawking, and Jane Goodall.
mehr04.03.2009
New Ditch Witch Beacon Housing Improves HDD Efficiency
The Ditch Witch organization has developed a beacon housing that is designed to be more durable, versatile, and productive than the tapered-head beacon housings previously offered by the company.
mehr02.03.2009
Mexico City is prepared to build the largest wastewater system worldwide
The CEO of the Mexican water authority CONAGUA visits Herrenknecht AG on the occasion of completion of the first tunnel boring machine for the Emisor Oriente project.
mehr27.02.2009
TT-UK "Bursting-Out" in India
The City of Mumbai (Bombay) with a population of about 15 million people has been growing at about 4.3 percent per year. Over the past 50 years, in an effort to develop the urban infrastructure and keep pace with rapid population growth, a high priority is necessary to improve the quality of the water supply and to upgrade the ageing and overloaded sewer networks.
mehr23.02.2009
VINCI wins contract for wastewater treatment plant on Reunion Island
Sogea Réunion, a VINCI Construction subsidiary, in consortium with VINCI Construction France, has been awarded a contact to extend and modernise the wastewater treatment plant belonging to SIAPP, the wastewater treatment authority for the towns of Port and Possession.
mehr19.02.2009
Dynamic Robbins TBM will Adapt Mid-bore
An extensive hydroelectric project in northeast Turkey will employ a Robbins Main Beam TBM at two different tunnel diameters. Launched in Winter 2008/2009, the 4.8 m (15.8 ft) diameter TBM and back-up are excavating a series of headrace tunnels for contractor Kolin Construction Co. Inc.
mehr18.02.2009
Martin Herrenknecht becomes the first European to receive the "Moles Award" in the USA
The renowned association of the US heavy construction industry, "The Moles", has presented the Schwanau entrepreneur Dr. Martin Herrenknecht with the "Moles Award 2009". This makes Martin Herrenknecht the first European and non-US citizen to be honored with this prize. "The Moles" award is highly regarded in the heavy construction industry in the US.
mehr13.02.2009
Borealis awards innovative polymer prizes to Austrian and Italian scholars
Two students carrying out important research on polyolefins have been recognized by Borealis, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, under its new Student Innovation Award scheme. The students received their awards at the annual Innovation Day that Borealis celebrated in Linz, Austria, in January 2009.
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