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Oct 03, 2006
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Three new sessions added to WEFTEC.06 technical program
The Water Environment Federation (WEF) announces the addition of three special sessions to the technical program of WEFTEC®.06, the Federation's 79th annual technical exhibition and conference. The sessions are part of a comprehensive educational program that includes 94 technical sessions, 25 workshops and 8 facility tours.
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Oct 02, 2006
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Margate & Broadstairs wastewater treatment scheme
Costain, one of the United Kingdom's leading engineering and construction firms, has completed the final tunneling section of the 11 kilometer-long twin pipeline for the Margate & Broadstairs wastewater treatment scheme, on behalf of Southern Water.
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Sep 29, 2006
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S & P - Company Reorganisation Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stein & Partner GmbH becomes holding company and incorporates two newly founded subsidiaries.
Since the engineering company Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stein & Partner GmbH was founded in 1994, the company has been growing steadily. In order to cope with the manifold fields of interests, responsibilities and requirements within the branch of pipeline construction and maintenance, two subsidiaries have now been founded besides the already existing companies Visaplan GmbH and CargoCap Gmbh: S&P Consult GmbH and Knowledge Factory GmbH. Functioning as a holding company, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stein & Partner GmbH is in charge of all four companies.
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Sep 28, 2006
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Methodology for leak detection
New pipelines and in particular existing mains and service lines can start to leak due to bad joints, deterioration, stress in the soil and corrosion. This could lead to more extensive damage and loss of precious water, and therefore revenue. Finding a leak and pin-pointing the location will have an impact on the extent of rectification works, environmental burden and investment.
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Sep 27, 2006
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Safeguarding water for future generations
A major new reservoir near Abingdon in Oxfordshire is being proposed to help cope with the projected increase in demand for water from London, Swindon and Oxfordshire in the future.
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Sep 25, 2006
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Mid-Atlantic chapter to host Cured-In-Place-Pipe (CIPP) Good Practices Guidelines Training Course
The Mid-Atlantic Society for Trenchless Technology offers a one-day Cured-in-Place-Pipe (CIPP) Good Practices Course, Thursday, Oct. 5, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm following the Rehab Road Show at the Radisson Hotel in Valley Forge, Pa. Course instructors are Chris Macey with UMA Engineering, Ltd. and Kaleel Rahaim with Interplastic Corporation.
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Sep 21, 2006
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Water Environment Federation celebrates World Water Monitoring Day on the Anacostia River in Washington, DC
The Water Environment Federation (WEF) will join with Earth Conservation Corps (ECC) to host World Water Monitoring Day™ 2006 on Wednesday, October 18 at the Anacostia River in Washington, DC. Ben Grumbles, Assistant Administrator for U.S. EPA's Office of Water, will lead local dignitaries, water quality professionals, environmental groups and local-area students in hands-on testing of the river's water quality.
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Sep 20, 2006
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Milestone in the Gotthard Base Tunnel - first breakthrough by a tunnel boring machine
The first tunnel boring machine (TBM) in the Gotthard Base Tunnel started out in the east tunnel from Bodio in November 2002. Two months later, the second TBM started driving in the west tunnel. A number of different geological zones had to be overcome along the approximately 15 km route to the multifunction station at Faido. The highly diverse geology impaired driving progress. Modifications to both TBMs brought sharp improvements. In December 2005, with 38 metres, the TBM in the east tunnel attained the highest daily advance rate of any TBM in the Gotthard Base Tunnel to date.
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Sep 20, 2006
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DIBt Certification for the Easy Pur "Spot Repair" partial lining system
Partial lining has established itself over many years for the isolated repair of inaccessible waste water pipes as an economical and technically mature alternative solution to traditional "dig-out" repairs.
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Sep 18, 2006
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Evaluation of membrane pre-treatment to further wastewater reuse
CDM recently completed an in-depth, two-phase study to assess the potential for membrane technologies to expand the reuse of secondary effluent. Commissioned by the Water Environment Research Foundation, CDM, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, conducted research that will guide utilities and regulatory agencies in expanding wastewater reuse. Since rapid urbanization and severe regional droughts make it clear that fresh water supplies cannot continue to indefinitely meet water demands, wastewater reuse will be needed to ensure water sustainability.
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Sep 14, 2006
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Sealing a tunnel under the Thames
Tunneling through the waterlogged ground close to and beneath the River Thames in London requires high-quality seals. Trelleborg does its part to strengthen London’s transport infrastructure for the 2012 Olympics.
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Sep 12, 2006
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RWE announces capital restructuring of Thames Water
Financing transactions to establish Thames Water as an independent entity
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Sep 11, 2006
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bauma 2007: Professional Showing of the Mining Machinery Industry
Following 2004, the mining machinery industry is again going to present a comprehensive overview of machines and systems. Approx. one-fifth of the almost 3,000 exhibitors from throughout the work will round the comprehensive offer with their mining equipment at bauma 2007 in Munich from 23 to 29 April.
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Sep 07, 2006
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Trenchless in Thailand
Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) and HDD applications are commonplace in America, Australia, and Europe and are often thought to be limited to other Western countries while developing countries are often assumed not to use HDD or other high-tech electronic equipment to complete projects.
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Sep 06, 2006
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Grains of sand pour in to benefit Royal Military Canal
Two environmental improvement schemes to bring cleaner water to the Royal Military Canal reached a milestone as millions of grains of sand were poured into new filters at Southern Water's Fairlight and Guestling Green Wastewater Treatment Works in East Sussex.
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Sep 04, 2006
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Easy Pipe - an installation process for pipelines in difficult ground
Whilst the advantages and effectiveness of microtunnelling and horizontal directional drilling (HDD) in suitable ground conditions have been known and widely used for over 30 years both systems do have their limitations in either operation in some ground conditions and in relative cost terms.
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Aug 31, 2006
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Lovat Inc. designs RME140SE Earth Pressure Balance TBM for cable tunnel in Croydon, United Kingdom
The infrastructure services company Morgan Est plc. of Rugby, England has contracted with Lovat Inc. for the purposes of design and manufacture of a 3.6 metre diameter Lovat RME140SE Earth Pressure Balance TBM. This will be the latest TBM to complement Morgan Est's fleet of Lovat TBMs which range from 2.3 to 4.4 metres diameter.
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Aug 30, 2006
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WEFTEC.06 is Headin' West!
Featuring 95 technical sessions, 25 workshops, 8 facility tours, and 900 exhibiting companies The latest in water quality research, technology, and services will be on display October 21-25, 2006 at the Dallas Convention Center in Dallas, Texas during WEFTEC®.06, the Water Environment Federation's 79th Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference.
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Aug 28, 2006
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Quality control - the key to sewer success
Well-respected pipe expert Professor Stein urges network operators to think of future generations and ensure long-term pipeline sustainability.
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Aug 25, 2006
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Stein & Partner at the 9th German Arab Business Forum
Over the last years, the German Arab Business Forum has developed into the most relevant and largest platform for German Arab business relations. It is a hot spot for both the private as well as the public sector to focus on new developments, strengthen existing business contacts and create new alliances. In view of the close business connections to Arabia as a result of several projects with Arab gulf countries, it is an honor for the engineering company Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stein & Partner GmbH (S&P) to participate in this international event 2006 as one of the sponsors and lecturers. The 9th German Arab Business Forum is taking place in Berlin at the House of German Business from 6-8 September 2006.
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Aug 24, 2006
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Herrenknecht Vertical GmbH presents its first deep drilling rig
Herrenknecht AG in Schwanau, a market leader in mechanical tunneling systems, founded Herrenknecht GmbH in response to the worldwide increase in drilling activities and the low availability of drilling capacities on the German market. When designing this very innovative drilling rig, Herrenknecht Vertical GmbH's engineers mainly concentrated on drilling requirements for geothermal projects, because an increasing number of such projects are currently in the planning or implementation stage in Germany.
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Aug 22, 2006
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Long-term maintenance planning for increased efficiency in managing underground utilities
When utilities plan maintenance measures for network assets, they first have to decide which assets should be targeted. Nowadays these decisions are often still made from a vast empirical knowledge, accumulated in these utilities over decades. Apart from the fact that empirical-based decisions are often difficult to explain to non-technicians or economists, there is still the danger of missing an aspect due to the size of these networks. STATUS supports the planning process and the inherent decisions by providing an analytical framework, enhancing the planning process, giving long-term planning safety and continuity.
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Aug 21, 2006
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HDD Practice Handbook
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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Aug 17, 2006
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Trenchless Pipeline Management
Urban lifelines are the assets of the society and trenchless techniques provide avenues for Management of such assets which otherwise are being left neglected and deteriorating rapidly. Urban pipelines, when conceived, were meant to provide passage to fluids like water, rain runoff, sewage, petroleum, or other energy products. Primary consideration of employing a pipeline for such transportation has been that such mode yields the most economic and viable as the fluid flowing through them is not exposed anywhere and therefore there would be very slim chances of it getting polluted or polluting the environment en route to the intended destination.
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Aug 16, 2006
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Leakage slightly down - companies warned against complacency
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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