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Sep 30, 2013
News
Pump-Storage Power Plant Nant de Drance: Machine Trio from Herrenknecht on a successful Course
Currently, the new Nant de Drance pumped-storage power plant with a planned capacity of 900MW is under construction in the Swiss canton of Valais. Machines from Herrenknecht are excavating both an access tunnel and vertical shafts. While the successful completion of the tunnelling work was already celebrated, the shaft construction machines are still in operation.
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Sep 27, 2013
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Massive waste water tunnel for Glasgow
Scottish Water is to build a 3.1 mile-long waste water tunnel in the south of Glasgow as part of the biggest upgrade of the city’s waste water network in more than a century.
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Sep 26, 2013
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Middlesex Water Subsidiary Awarded Water Privatization Contract for Dover Air Force Base System
Middlesex Water Company (Nasdaq:MSEX), a provider of water, wastewater and related services, today announced it has entered into an agreement through its subsidiary, Tidewater Utilities, Inc. with the U.S. Department of Defense for the privatization of the water system of Dover Air Force Base (DAFB) in Dover, Delaware.
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Sep 24, 2013
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Japanese Minister awards Spiral-Wound rehabilitation project in Ansbach, Germany
Special requirements of the sewer rehabilitation in the city of Ansbach, Germany, made the SPR™ product the perfect solution. SEKISUI SPR Europe was instructed by AWEAN, who is responsible for the wastewater disposal of Ansbach, to renew 220 m of an egg-shaped sewer with diameter of 1200/1600 mm.
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Sep 23, 2013
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Watertech 2013 garners tremendous government and industry association support
Facilitating relationship and partnership building for the emerging water and wastewater treatment market, and to promote water conservation, recycling and reuse, Messe Frankfurt is organising Watertech 2013, a showcase of sustainable technologies, innovative products and best practices in the water and wastewater management and treatment industry.
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Sep 20, 2013
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Tunneling and gallery techniques
Breakthrough of the final tunnel at Hallandsås in Sweden
Does the name Hallandsås mean anything to you? Ask a tunnel specialist about it. He will explain to you why this project, taken over in 2002 by the joint venture involving Skanska (60%) and VINCI Construction Grands Projets (40%), following two previous aborted attempts, is one of the best known among underground construction professionals throughout the world.
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Sep 19, 2013
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Ditch Witch RT120 Quad Introduced
The Ditch Witch organization introduces the RT120 Quad, a utility tractor with the power, heavy-duty frame and traction necessary for long installations of large-diameter pipe on the most challenging jobsites.
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Sep 18, 2013
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American Water Named to Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index For Second Consecutive Year
American Water, the nation's largest publicly traded water and wastewater utility company, has been named to the 2013 Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (DJSI), the second consecutive year the company received this honor.
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Sep 17, 2013
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Arid Cities in People's Republic of China to Improve Water Management
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), one of the poorest and most remote regions in northwestern People’s Republic of China (PRC), will use a $200 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to improve water availability through wastewater reuse and better water resources management.
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Sep 16, 2013
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New methods for laying the pipeline Haute de France II
MAX STREICHER GmbH & Co. KG aA is laying 51.7 kilometres of pipeline on behalf of GRTgaz
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Sep 16, 2013
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Water and wastewater modernisation in Dolj
The EU Cohesion Fund and the EBRD are joining forces to modernise and upgrade the water and wastewater services in Dolj, a county in the south of Romania.
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Sep 13, 2013
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Highly Mobile Drinking Water Treatment: adapted to the needs of relief organizations
The water treatment company Berkefeld presented its type TWA 4 light mobile water treatment plant. The plant produces four cubic metres of drinking water per hour and can supply up to 10,000 refugees.
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Sep 12, 2013
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A current Ceramic Polymer project: External coating of 90 km oil pipeline with "Proguard CN 100 iso"
The "Proguard-Series" of Ceramic Polymer GmbH provides a tight cross linking of the polymer chains even at high substrate temperatures (Tg > 120°C)!
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Sep 11, 2013
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ADB, Gates Foundation Partner to Tackle Asia's Huge Sanitation Needs
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have formed a new partnership agreement to expand and speed up access to safe sanitation in Asia and the Pacific.
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Sep 10, 2013
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ASTM Technology and Underground Utilities Committee to Work on Proposed Standards at October Meeting
ASTM International Committee F36 on Technology and Underground Utilities is developing several proposed new standards. Two such standards are ASTM WK39910, Practice for the Use of Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing for Monitoring Ground Movements Around Utilities and Tunnels, and ASTM WK41891, Practice for the Full-Length Monitoring of the Interface Temperature of a Cured in Place Pipe Lining Process.
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Sep 10, 2013
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Tunneling and gallery techniques » Jacking by machine » Tunnel boring machine
Modern Large Diameter Rock Tunnels
Recent experience and development of Hard Rock Tunnel Boring on most large diameter tunnels, especially above 8m in diameter, has shown that improved ground support is a prerequisite to improved monthly advance rates. The opinions and comments presented in this paper are heavily influenced by recent experiences on the 12.4m diameter Jinping Project, the 10m diameter AMR project and the 14.4m diameter Niagara Project.
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Sep 09, 2013
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Hard Rock Tunnel Boring Machines are cutting tunnels through the Pyrenees
Two high-tech Herrenknecht tunnel boring machines completed an endurance test with bravura during long-distance tunnelling through the Pyrenees. After a total of 8.2 kilometers tunnelling through hard rock, the target line was reached with the final breakthrough in April 2013. The resulting cross-border tunnel project will be used for a high-voltage line to connect the French and Spanish electricity network with each other.
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Sep 06, 2013
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Ahead of the Curve with HOBAS - Optimal Penstock Routing with GRP Pipe Systems
From an economic and ecological perspective, the importance of hydropower is definitely on the rise as it provides an array of advantages compared to other conventional methods of power generation. Despite the initial investment obstacle, small hydropower plants prove cost-effective thanks to their long service life of often more than 70 years and low maintenance costs.
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Sep 04, 2013
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NIB finances drinking water network in southern Sweden
NIB and the Swedish drinking water producer Sydvatten AB has signed a loan agreement, totalling SEK 67 million (EUR 8 million), for improving the drinking water supply in southern Sweden.
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Sep 03, 2013
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Sembcorp Extends its Wastewater Treatment Business to Two New Sites in China's Liaoning Province
Sembcorp is pleased to announce the expansion of its water business in China's Liaoning province with two new wastewater treatment projects in industrial parks in Panjin city. Its wholly-owned subsidiary Sembcorp China will sign agreements later today for new wastewater treatment projects in Panjin City's Panjin Fine Chemical Industrial Park and Panjin Liaodong Bay New District.
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Sep 02, 2013
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Political will key to ensuring water and sanitation for all, says UN-backed report
Political leadership and concrete action have led to good progress on creating universal and sustainable access to decent sanitation and drinking water, but additional efforts are needed to fulfil commitments by the 2014 deadline, a United Nations-backed partnership reported.
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Aug 30, 2013
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Ditch Witch UtiliGuard Locating System Introduced
The Ditch Witch organization introduces UtiliGuard, a new utility locating system with numerous industry-first features that combine to offer unprecedented locating accuracy.
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Aug 29, 2013
Article
Inspection
Shape Measurement of a Sewer Pipe Using a Mobile Robot with Computer Vision
By Kikuhito Kawasue and Takayuki Komatsu
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Aug 28, 2013
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Larson Electronics Releases High Output Explosion Proof LED Flashlight with 5 Modes
LarsonElectronics.com has announced the addition of the EXP-LED-RL-FX5R Explosion Proof Rechargeable LED Flashlight to its growing line of portable and handheld explosion proof lighting equipment. U.L. and ATEX approved for hazardous location lighting, the EXP-LED-RL-FX5R is Class 1 Division 1 certified and an ideal portable lighting solution for operators in hazardous locations who require more than just a simple flashlight.
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Aug 27, 2013
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Tunneling and gallery techniques » Jacking by machine » Tunnel boring machine
Herrenknecht Delivers Special Tunnel Boring Machine for the New Bosporus Crossing
A large-diameter road tunnel will cross beneath the strait in Istanbul and expand the infrastructure bottleneck between Europe and Asia. The technical planning of the tunnelling operations poses complex challenges. Therefore, the construction consortium ordered a specially adapted tunnel boring machine from Herrenknecht. The 13.6 meter giant, a Mixshield, was completed in early July 2013 in Schwanau and is now on the way to the jobsite in Turkey.
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