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Directional Drilling
One-Pass HDD Installation

In January, a 720-ft, 24-in., DIPS HDPE sanitary sewer line was installed using horizontal directional drilling in Corun...

August 5, 2005
Directional Drilling
Drill Master: GPR: An Important Tool for Damage Prevention

Damage prevention is still not an exact science, but locating strategies, tools and processes are helping to reduce the...

August 1, 2005
News
Utility Contractors Lobby Capitol Hill Lawmakers

More than 160 NUCA members from all over the UnitedStates met face-to-face with legislators during the Washington Summit...

August 1, 2005
News
Western Flow Marketing Partnership Launched

Western Flow Marketing was recently launched as a partnership between JohnOrkish, president of DOT Sales, and Hank Jones...

August 1, 2005
News
CONTECH to Relocate Corporate Headquarters

CONTECH Construction Products Inc. recently announced a plan to move itscorporate headquarters to Centre Pointe IV in th...

August 1, 2005
News
Godwin’s Paz Receives Ernst & Young Award

John Michael Paz, president of Bridgeport, N.J.-based Godwin Pumps, wasawarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the...

August 1, 2005
Directional Drilling
Looking at the Maxi Rig Market

After several status quo years of work, the maxi rig market appears to have stumbled a bit in 2005 — at least in regar...

August 1, 2005
News
July 2005: Trenchless International News

IFAT 2005: Draws More than 108,000 AttendeesNewprojects, technologies and services were the focus of visitor interest at...

July 1, 2005
News
BAMI-I Board of Directors Meets in Orlando

TheBuried Asset Management Institute-International (BAMI-I) held a board ofdirectors meeting April 25 at the Gaylord Pal...

July 1, 2005
News
Thompson Pump Opens Kansas City Branch Location

Thompson Pump & Mfg. Co. Inc. of Port Orange, Fla.,opened a new Kansas City, Kan., branch location. The new facility...

July 1, 2005
News
Muenchmeyer Launches Consulting Firm

Gerhard “Gerry” Muenchmeyer recently formed MuenchmeyerEngineering Associates LLC (MEA). MEA will be providi...

July 1, 2005
News
Underground Solutions Establishes Service Center in Texas

Underground Solutions Inc. (Pink Sheets: symbol UGSI) hasannounced that it has entered into an agreement with Gajeske In...

July 1, 2005
News
Polypipe Expands Product Line

PolyPipeInc. recently announced plans to expand its western U.S. pipe plant to includelarge diameter pipe production. Th...

July 1, 2005
News
McLaughlin Dealer Receives Sewer Training

McLaughlin Boring Systems, Greenville, S.C., recently hosted aone-day training session for Ditch Witch of the Carolinas,...

July 1, 2005
News
Fuquay Inc. Wins 2004 ROQ Award

FuquayInc. has been named the 2005 winner of the ROQ Award, presented annually bySprayroq Inc. to the Sprayroq Certified...

July 1, 2005
International
Visser & Smit Hanab’s Diversity Provides Key to Success

Visser & Smit Hanab bv has a long and storied history in the underground pipeline construction industry in the Netherlan...

July 1, 2005
Directional Drilling
Supplying Forteiland te IJmuiden in the Netherlands with Power and...

Forteiland te IJmuiden (Fort Island IJmuiden) is situated at the mouth of the North Sea Canal, a construction project th...

July 1, 2005
Archives
Microtunneling in New Zealand Present Challenges

Harker Underground Construction was established in 1986...Today, Harker has six tunnel boring machines, five of them bui...

July 1, 2005
News
Atlanta Mayor Honored by JFK Library Foundation

Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin was one of fourrecipients of the 2005 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for her ef...

June 2, 2005
News
PPIC Hosts Seminar in Cleveland

The PressurePipe Inspection Co. (PPIC), in conjunction with Water Systems Optimization(WSO), Simpson Gumpertz & Hege...

June 1, 2005