Northwest Boring Receives Microtunneling Award
March 23, 2011
Tim Coss, director of the Microtunneling Short Course, presented the award and cited NWB’s record-setting achievements in completing the microtunneling on the Portsmouth Force Main Segment 1 project for the City of Portland. NWB set a U.S. record for microtunneling steel casing almost 7 ft in diameter a distance of over 1,903 ft on the Portsmouth project. NWB is also the first repeat recipient of this award, having been the inaugural receiver of this award back on Feb. 7, 2002.
The Microtunneling Short Course, which was held Feb, 9-11, was the 18th annual course and included a one-day Pilot Tube Microtunneling seminar that was held on Feb. 8.
The Microtunneling Short Course is the premiere course of its kind and attracts in excess of 100 attendees each year, including international attendees and speakers. In addition to Coss, course organizers include Levent Ozdemir, professor emeritus at CSM.
The course is presented by the Microtunneling Research Institute in conjunction with Trenchless Technology magazine.