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Canada
Crossing the Athabasca River in Canada

Long before a drill bit bores into the ground, a contractor’s experience and comprehensive planning process help t...

February 16, 2016
Features
Sewer Jetting Safety — There Are No Shortcuts!

Let’s face it –  sewer and drain cleaning is a dirty, nasty business and equipment operators face a mul...

February 16, 2016
Archives
MCES Uses CIPP for Black Dog Preserve Project

With a budget exceeding $100 million a year in wastewater pipe capital improvements over the next several years, Metropo...

February 12, 2016
Engineering business partnership
Downley Consultants Opens Office in UAE

Downley Consultants, one of the leading international consulting engineers specializing in trenchless technology, has op...

February 1, 2016
Directional Drilling
In the Neighborhood Utility Contractors Keep Compact HDD Market Busy

Large horizontal directional drilling (HDD) projects – like Michels Canada’s 7,200 ft, 42-in. crossing compl...

January 26, 2016
Canada
Setting New Standards: Ward and Burke Marks North American Firsts...

Mississauga-based contractor Ward and Burke Microtunnelling Ltd. recently completed a pair of projects that further demo...

January 25, 2016
Canada
Montreal Rehabilitates Aging Water Mains Using CIPP

In 2015, the most populated and influential city in the Province of Quebec, the City of Montreal, continued its quest to...

January 25, 2016
Features
Jacking Pipe Helps to Upgrade the Sewers in Las Vegas

The Paradise Whitney Interceptor (PWI) is an extensive gravity pipeline being built in Las Vegas by the Clark County Wat...

January 22, 2016
Features
Pilot Tube Method Put to the Test in Kentucky

When MAC Construction and Excavating, of New Albany, Ind., faced the challenge of being more than 30 ft deep and needing...

January 21, 2016
Directional Drilling
Fiber Network Allows for ‘Next Generation’ Technology at University

When a Midwestern liberal arts college sought a contractor to build out a new fiber-optic network to support the technol...

January 20, 2016
Business/People
What Is the Outlook for Water and Sewer Construction in...

“The environment is too chaotic to predict. Remain calm, all is well.” Our opening quote is from an executiv...

January 19, 2016
Canada
Using CIPP and Gasket Seals on Elliptical Brick Sewers

As time passes, technology continues to advance and the failures of yesterday lead to innovations and successes for toda...

January 18, 2016
Directional Drilling
No Shale Slowdown: Marcellus, Utica Production Stays Strong Amid Low...

Oil prices have taken a dive from the highs of summer 2014, and high production has kept natural gas prices at sustained...

January 15, 2016
Features aqua-pipe in Jersey City
Jersey City Turns to Trenchless for Water Main Rehab

With its population of approximately 262,000 people, Jersey City is the second largest city in the state of New Jersey, ...

December 22, 2015
International News Trenchless Technology News
Xylem Supplies Cutting-edge Pump Technology to Help Increase Connectivity between...

Xylem (NYSE: XYL), a leading global water technology company focused on addressing the world’s most challenging wa...

December 10, 2015
Features
Pipe Ramming Through a Landfill

What started out as a relatively straight forward auger bore beneath a BNSF rail line in Denver, rapidly changed into so...

December 7, 2015
Features
Compact Tunnel Boring Machines Are Major Players in North America

This article is a Q&A based on an interview with Tom Fuerst, Utility Tunneling Manager for The Robbins Company, base...

December 2, 2015
Grouting
Strategic, Cost-Effective I&I Reduction in Wisconsin

Our consultants developed an excellent model, and a good analysis of options,” says Wauwatosa, Wis., city engineer...

December 1, 2015
Features
Combination of Trenchless Methods Applied to Michigan Interceptor Project

In late 2014, Lanzo Trenchless Technologies received a call from NTH Consulting and Drain Commission officials asking if...

December 1, 2015
Features
ICYMI Our 2015 ICUEE In Review

The 2015 ICUEE Show in Louisville, Ky., was a record-setting three-day event, with more than 18,000 people coming throug...

November 25, 2015