Championing South Africa’s trenchless industry
Since the early 1990s Trenchless Technologies cc has been advancing South Africa’s trenchless construction industry to the point where it has become one of the fastest growing subsurface construction methods in the country. Having pioneered the launc... [read more]
Spirally wound at the largest diameter
When it comes to rehabilitating sewers with large nominal diameters under complex boundary conditions, the spiral-wound pipe rehabilitation technology comes into its own. This was the case in the French district of Le Pecq near Paris in October 2011,... [read more]
High-Altitude hole through for Landmark Robbins TBM
After four years of extreme excavation through high cover and volcanic rock conditions, TBM tunneling at the Olmos Trans-Andean tunnel is complete. The 5.3 m (17.4 ft) diameter Robbins Main Beam machine broke through to fanfare and an elaborate cere... [read more]
TT-UK maint ains high standards
TT-UK the Quality Trenchless Technology equipment supplier is committed to maintaining high standard management systems for Health & Safety, Environmental and Quality practices and procedures. Following another audit by the Achilles UVDB Verify asse... [read more]
Another UK first for U Mole in suction excavation
27.01.2012 - U Mole (part of the Groundforce division of Vp plc) recently supplied the first Vac-Tron LPAIR vacuum excavation unit in the UK to client Geotron UK Ltd. Geotron works mainly in the environmental industry, with its core business being largely in the ...
Chinas Mega-City Problems
25.01.2012 - In their article “How the rise of the megacity is changing the way we live,” the Guardian correspondents Paul Webster and Jason Burke profile Chengdu, a once lush and lethargic city of 500,000 back in 1950 that today is now a bustling and bursting me...
5.8 km of DN 400 steel pipeline through horizontal directional drilling
25.01.2012 - WDS Limited’s (ASX: WDS) Energy and Infrastructure Division has been awarded a contract by the APA Group for the RBP Metro Looping Project. The project involves the installation of about 5.8 kilometres of DN400 steel pipeline through open trenching a...
Europe southern gas corridor pipeline race heats up
25.01.2012 - Competition to build Europe's southern gas corridor intensified on Tuesday after two leading pipeline projects said they would welcome cooperation with the Trans Anatolian gas pipeline (TANAP) which aims to pump Azeri gas through Turkey. Three intern...
HOBAS tank secures potable water supply
25.01.2012 - A HOBAS composite potable water tank has helped the Austrian town of Karlstetten avoid water shortages each year. The market town of Karlstetten is home to over 2000 people, and this figure has been rising steadily in recent years. As there are no la...
Trenchless Live 2012 - bigger and better than ever
24.01.2012 - After the success of No-Dig Down Under 2011, the industry looks forward to Trenchless Live 2012, to be held at the Royal Melbourne Showground from 23–24 October. Trenchless Live 2012 offers an experience like no other. Following on from Trenchless Li...
Lizzie gets busy tunnelling in London
20.01.2012 - A giant tunnelling machine, named ‘Lizzie,’ has been lowered into a shaft in London, UK, ready to start work digging the 4 mile Lee Tunnel. The £635 million Lee Tunnel will prevent 16 million tonnes of sewage entering the River Lee each year - a resu...
Obama rejects Keystone pipeline
19.01.2012 - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that his administration had decided to reject the proposed Keystone pipeline between Canada and the United States. In a statement released by the White House, Obama said the " rushed and arbitrary deadlin...
HDD: ABB sets power cable record in New York Harbor
19.01.2012 - New York City, January 18, 2012 — ABB has completed the delivery and energization of a cross-linked polyethylene insulated 345 kV AC submarine cable system. Extruded in a single continuous length without factory joints, the new cable system brings 51...
Robbins Opens New Subsidiary in South America
17.01.2012 - A new Robbins office is now operating in Santiago, Chile to support the local tunneling market and grow our business in the region. Robbins South America is led by Managing Director, Rolando Justa with support from Project Coordinator, Esther Zerrer....
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