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North Carolina Contractor Uses Smaller Rigs for its Gas Work

Parker-Stockstill Construction, Elm City, N.C., has carved out a solid niche installing natural gas transmission and dis...

January 1, 2013
Directional Drilling
Challenging Fiber-Optic Installation in Idaho

As the need for trenchless construction with less disruption and minimal footprint has grown, so has Meridian, Idaho-bas...

January 1, 2013
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What Lies Ahead in 2013 for the U.S. Water Infrastructure...

The U.S. water infrastructure design and construction market perfectly reflects the tension between needs and funding pr...

January 1, 2013
News
ABEL RECON Expands Its Infrastructure Rehab Service into Ohio

ABEL RECON, part of the Abel Companies of Mountville, Pa., announced the formal expansion of its infrastructure rehabili...

January 1, 2013
News
TRACTO-TECHNIK Celebrates Its 50th Jubilee

TRACTO-TECHNIK recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with 600 employees, business partners and numerous other guests....

December 19, 2012
Archives Choosing the Right Pipe
Top 10 Engineering Firms

The Top 10 Trenchless Design Firms for 2012...

December 13, 2012
News
Midwest Mole Promotes Miller

Midwest Mole Inc. announced the promotion of Jason Miller to president from vice president, effective Aug. 28. Miller is...

December 13, 2012
Canada
Engineering Roundtable

We invited several leading engineering firms to take part in an Engineering Roundtable to get their perspective on the s...

December 13, 2012
Canada
DEATH, TAXES AND YES, EVEN WATER MAIN REPAIRS ARE ALL...

A third item was added to the adage about two things in life that are inevitable: water main repairs....

December 13, 2012
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Large Diameter Auger Boring in Illinois

Midwest Mole Inc. completed a railroad crossing project in Tolono, Ill., that consisted of 128 ft of 60-in. steel casing...

December 13, 2012
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Gabe’s Construction Celebrates 70 Years

Gabe's Construction is celebrating 70 years in business in 2012....

December 13, 2012
Archives
American Augers Sold to Charles Machine Works

American Augers Sold to Charles Machine Works for approximately $55 million in cash, subject to closing adjustments....

December 13, 2012
News
ASCE Seeks Members for New Underground Utility Mapping Standards Committee

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is seeking members for a new committee to establish a non-mandatory stand...

December 13, 2012
Archives
2012 Top 50 Trenchless Design Firms

2012 Top 50 Trenchless Design Firms...

December 13, 2012
Directional Drilling
Installation at Los Alamos National Laboratory Showcases New HDD Technologies

HDD technology, specifically locating equipment, was needed as the construction method for this project due to the numbe...

December 13, 2012
News
Anchor Opens Ohio’s First Drilling Fluids Facility

Tulsa, Okla.-based Anchor Drilling Fluids USA Inc., the largest independent U.S. drilling fluids company, recently annou...

December 13, 2012
Archives
Thinking Outside the Box

When sliplining projects are planned, clay pipe doesn’t come up on the radar of design engineers. Municipalities and e...

December 13, 2012
News
Plastics Pipe Institute Meets in Dallas

The Plastics Pipe Institute (PPI) held its semi-annual meeting Oct. 14-17 in Southlake, Texas, a suburb of Dallas....

December 13, 2012
News
TRIC Tools Inc. Hires Grenier as Municipal Sales Director

TRIC Tools Inc. has announced the addition of Bob Grenier to its sales team as its director of municipal sales....

December 13, 2012
News
2012 International No-Dig in Brazil Is a Success

ISTT held its 30th No-Dig conference and exhibition Nov. 12-14 in São Paulo, Brazil, which attracted nearly 1,200 exhib...

December 12, 2012