1. Home
  2. Articles by: Andrew Farr

Author Archives for Andrew Farr

Articles by Andrew Farr

News
A Nozzle Approach

In today’s business world, social media networking is at the forefront of branding and selling. The Internet has broug...

February 14, 2012
Directional Drilling
Drillmaster Report: Maintaining the Life of an HDD Mud Pump

Pump systems play an integral role in the success of any horizontal directional drilling (HDD) project. Charged with cir...

February 14, 2012
Directional Drilling
Air-Vacuum Excavation Systems: Exposing Buried Utilities Before You Drill

As the use of horizontal directional drilling (HDD) continues to increase in popularity in today’s growing underground...

February 14, 2012
News
The Toro Co. Acquires Astec Underground’s Directional Drill & Vibratory

The Toro Co. (NYSE: TTC) announced Feb. 10 that it has acquired certain utility and underground product assets of Astec...

February 10, 2012
News
ISCO Industries Founder & Chairman Jim Kirchdorfer Sr. Passes Away

Jim Kirchdorfer Sr., founder and chairman of ISCO Industries, a Louisville, Ky.-based pipe supplier and custom manufactu...

February 6, 2012
News
Construction Employment Hits 2-Year High, but Has 17.7 Percent Unemployment...

The construction industry added 21,000 jobs in January, as a second consecutive month of unseasonably mild winter weathe...

February 3, 2012
News
Black & Veatch Expands Support for Middle East Clients

To further strengthen support for clients in the United Arab Emirates and other Middle Eastern countries, Black & Veatch...

February 2, 2012
News
NASSCO Extends 6-Month Deadline for PACP Recertification

NASSCO has extended the deadline for Pipeline Assessment Certification Program (PACP) recertification from Feb. 29 to Au...

February 2, 2012
News
Spending on Construction, Jobs Increase Between December 2010 & 2011

Construction employment increased in 148 out of 337 metropolitan areas between December 2010 and December 2011, decrease...

February 1, 2012
Archives
Pure Technologies Gets New Contract Worth $5.8 Million

Pure Technologies Ltd. (TSX: PUR) has announced that the Board of County Commissioners of Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Dep...

January 31, 2012
International
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

There’s a well-known children’s book titled If You Give a Mouse a Cookie that I had the pleasure of sharing with my...

January 27, 2012
Archives
Echologics Non-Invasively Pinpoints Water Leak Underneath Large Chinese Bottling Plant

A global leader in the beverage industry had a bottling plant in Shanyang, China, that was losing approximately 150,000...

January 26, 2012
Archives
Compact Drills Assist in Bringing Broadband to the Caribbean

Most people in North America picture the Caribbean as a place where picturesque islands with beautiful beaches are surro...

January 26, 2012
International
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...

January 26, 2012
International
Capital Engineering Corp. Joins AECOM

AECOM announced Jan. 6 that it has acquired Capital Engineering Corporation (CEC), an environmental and engineering cons...

January 26, 2012
International
Robbins Opens New Subsidiary in South America

A new Robbins office is now operating in Santiago, Chile, to support the local tunneling market and grow our business in...

January 26, 2012
International
Inaugural Water Summit to be Held January 2013

General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed For...

January 26, 2012
International
Sekisui Chemical Aquires Austrian Pipe Rehabilitation Company

Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. has recently acquired 75 percent of the shares in Rabmer Holding GmbH, Austria’s largest...

January 26, 2012
Canada
Microtunneling in Brookline, Mass.

The Lower Beacon Street Sewer Separation Phase 2 project is a sewer and storm drain separation project in lower Brooklin...

January 20, 2012
Archives
Rebuilding Part 2: Rebuilding a Regional Water Main in Urban...

First built in the 1930s, Crystal Springs Pipeline No. 2 (CSPL2) is a 19-mile-long steel pipeline that provides drinking...

January 20, 2012