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Nov 17, 2008
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Insituform Wins $10.3M CIPP Project in Connecticut: Over 12 months of trenchless sewer rehabilitation work in Connecticut positions Insituform for area growth
Insituform Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq Global Select Market: INSU) was awarded a $10.3 million sewer contract in November from the Metropolitan Development Commission (MDC) for the rehabilitation of 270,000 linear feet of sewer lines using Insituform® cured-in-place pipe (CIPP). Insituform® CIPP is a jointless pipe-within-a-pipe that extends the life of existing infrastructure by 100 years.
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Nov 13, 2008
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HAMMERHEAD, Manufacturer of Trenchless Products Launches New Website
HammerHead Trenchless Equipment, North America’s largest manufacturer of piercing tools, pipe bursting and pipe ramming systems announces the launch of a totally redesigned interactive website this month. The site, www.hammerheadtrenchless.com is designed as a state-of-the-art communications channel between HammerHead and its customers, worldwide.
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Nov 12, 2008
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World First As Yorkshire Water Repairs Pipes Without Digging Up The Road
Digging up Yorkshire's roads to fix leaking water pipes or bursts could become a thing ofthe past thanks to Platelet Technology® being pioneered in the water industry byYorkshire Water.
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Nov 11, 2008
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Robbins Opens New Asia Pacific Office
Robbins announces its new office, Robbins Asia Pacific Pty Ltd., which will provide service in the fast-developing Asia Pacific Region. Located in Hong Kong, the office will focus on sales, technical support, and procurement. The branch is in addition to three other Robbins offices in Asia.
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Nov 10, 2008
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Direct Pipe ®: Latest innovation in pipeline construction - technology and references
Various methods have so far been applied for crossing works in order to build steel or polyethylene pipelines as pressure lines. Pipe jacking and segmental lining allow for the construction of protective tunnels with subsequent insertion of the pipe string. The HDD method, in contrast, includes the construction of a pilot bore prior to pipe pull-in. Recent developments such as the Easy Pipe method comprise jacking processes -- where tight connection interim steel pipes are pushed towards the target shaft, coupled to a pipeline and then pulled back together. All these methods include a two- or multi-step pipe installation process. The multilevelness of these methods and pertinent aspects such as costs and project duration led to the development of the DIRECT PIPE® method: Steel or polyethylene pipes can now for the first time be jacked efficiently and fast in one operation process.
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Nov 07, 2008
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From Folkestone to Hong Kong - 20 Years in Worldwide Tunnelling
A tunnel that bored 40m under the sea floor, for a distance of 38 km, would undoubtedly present an epic challenge. Back in 1988, the Channel Tunnel project was to become the starting point for Bennett Associates’ journey into the world of tunnelling. This year sees the 20th anniversary of their involvement in the tunnelling industry.
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Nov 05, 2008
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WEFTEC®?s Growth Continues! WEFTEC.08 is the Largest in Conference?s 81-Year History
Alexandria, Va. – Record-setting numbers of 21,950 attendees and 1,111 companies using 290,000 net square feet of exhibit space have designated WEFTEC.08 – the Water Environment Federation’s 81st Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference – as the largest event in its 81-year history. The previous records of 19,929 attendees, 1,017 companies and 268,405 net square feet of floor space were set just last year at WEFTEC.07 in San Diego. Last week’s conference was the premier gathering of water environment professionals that offered the most dynamic educational and training experience in WEFTEC’s history with 31 workshops, 115 technical sessions, and 10 facility tours that addressed the timeliest issues in water, wastewater treatment, stormwater management, energy, green initiatives, science, research, and legislative and political issues.
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Nov 03, 2008
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Lux Research introduces water technology practice: New service announced at Lux Executive Summit, premier forum for science-driven innovation
Boston, MA – October 20, 2008 – Pressures on water availability are reaching new heights, with nearly half the world’s population facing severe water stress. Business leaders are seeking new opportunities to both meet these requirements and generate defensible profits, spending more than $220 billion in the last ten years on water deals. To assist them, Lux Research today introduced the Lux Water Intelligence service, which combines global innovation scouting with comprehensive reports and analyst access to uncover new technologies and business models in water. The service was announced at the opening of the 4th annual Lux Executive Summit, the premier forum for science-driven innovation.
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Oct 30, 2008
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The ORFEUS Project: a step change in Ground Penetrating Radar technology to locate buried utilities
There is a serious issue associated with the inability to detect and accurately locate buried utility assets and, as a result, too many holes are dug in the road. This creates problems such as traffic delays, leading to unnecessary fuel usage, and quality of life issues related to air quality, noise pollution and lost time. This is not a single utility problem and needs to be addressed on a European basis, with utilities working together to provide appropriate solutions. ORFEUS is a European Commission funded Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) recently begun with the aim of developing the next generation of ground penetrating radar (GPR) systems. They will raise the probability of detection of underground buried assets and, as a result, significantly ease their rehabilitation and/or replacement. The project will last for 36 months and will cost €5 million.
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Oct 29, 2008
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Why how much water runs down the rivers
Humans are increasingly altering the amount of water that runs from the land to the sea or inland waters. Calculations with a global vegetation and hydrology model indicate that precipitation had the largest impact on global river discharge over the 20th century. Regionally, however, discharge varied according to factors such as land use change and irrigation practices, temperature, and the concentration of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2), researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) report in the journal "Geophysical Research Letters". The impact of these mainly anthropogenically driven factors on discharge and the availability of water for human use is expected to grow in the future.
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Oct 27, 2008
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The world looses 45 million cubic metres of water every day: UNW-DPC and UN-HABITAT look for applying solutions
UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC) and United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) organized from 3 to 5 September 2008 the International Workshop on “Drinking Water Loss Reduction: Developing Capacity for Applying Solutions”, held at the UN Campus in Bonn, Germany. More than 60 participants, including water managers and water decisionmakers from 18 cities around the world confronted with the problem of drinking water losses, met in Bonn to share their experiences regarding technical, political and administrative solutions and capacity development tools.
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Oct 24, 2008
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Soil electromagnetic mapping for enhanced GPR utility location
1. INTRODUCTIONThe Mapping the Underworld (MTU) project combines the expertise of four UK universities in an effort to provide new geophysical utility location equipment that will dramatically improve on the accuracy of current equipment (see [1] for more information). In order to achieve this goal, it has been recognised that there is a need to optimise the usefulness of data output by GPR equipment through knowledge of the electromagnetic (EM) properties of the soil. This aspect of the project can be considered an essential element as it is soil, and in particular the clay fraction, that determines the degree of signal loss that will occur and the velocity of the signal in the ground.
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Oct 23, 2008
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Robbins EPBM sees the light in Delhi
After five months of tunneling, a Robbins EPBM has completed its first bore in New Delhi. The machine is one of two Robbins EPBMs boring parallel 2.0 km (1.2 mi) long tunnels for the second phase of India’s New Delhi Metro Extension Project. A total of four machines are boring a new 5.3 km (3.3 mi) line between the Udyog Bhawan and Green Park areas for the Continental Engineering Corporation (CEC)/ Soma JV.
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Oct 20, 2008
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Mexico's Largest EPB to be supplied by Robbins
A new 10.2 m (33.5 ft) diameter Robbins Earth Pressure Balance Machine (EPBM) is planned to tunnel directly underneath urban areas for Mexico City Metro’s Line 12. The machine will be the largest diameter TBM ever to bore in Mexico.
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Oct 17, 2008
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NASTT & PUG Present CIPP Good Practices Course
The North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT) and the Northern California Pipe Users Group (PUG) are pleased to offer a special one-day Cured-in-Place-Pipe (CIPP) Good Practices Course, Tues., Oct. 28, 2008, in Martinez, Calif. at the offices of Central Contra Costa Sanitary District.
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Oct 15, 2008
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TT-UK stand pulled in visitors at NO-DIG Live 2008
Following the success of the NO-DIG event held in 2006 at the Royal Showground in Warwickshire UK, the exhibition organisers Westrade Fair decided that due to ease of vehicular access, good on site parking and its central geographical location, to again hold the 9th bi-annual Trenchless Technology Exhibition (NO-DIG) at this prestigious showground.
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Oct 13, 2008
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Insituform lands $21M contracts for project in India
Insituform Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq Global Select Market: INSU) has won two new sewer rehabilitation contracts in Delhi, India, totaling $21.1 million.
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Oct 08, 2008
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Analytical study on the ground movement caused by pipe bursting
Trenchless pipe replacement technology by ‘EXPANDIT’ using hydraulic expansion was established in March, 2006 in Japan, and we received the construction technology certificate of JIWET (Japan Institute of Wastewater Engineering Technology).This trenchless technology of pipe replacement has much effective features. However, many sewer administrators would consider that pipe bursting might damage to adjacent pipes or structures, therefore this pipe replacement technology cannot be used widely for sewer pipes in Japan. In order to solve such problems, we performed experimental pipe bursting operation focused on the ground movement at 6 span’s model pipelines in 2005. Consequently, the relation between a distance from existing pipe to measuring point and the amount of ground movement at that point has been understood, and estimation charts of the ground movement were attained.In this paper, we describe the numerical study about the ground movement associated with the amount of radial expansion, while these data following advancing analysis of the data were analyzed in detail, estimation of the ground movement was available. One example of vertical ground movement by pipe bursting operation can be described.
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Oct 02, 2008
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Giant Robbins machine embarks on hydropower tunnel
On September 18, 2008 the 12.43 m (40.1 ft) diameter Robbins machine was launched on a 16.7 km (10.4 mi) long hydropower tunnel in Sichuan Province, China. The machine will bore one of four headrace tunnels, which will draw water from the nearby Yalong River, a tributary of the Yangtze. The large TBM will join another 7.2 m (23.7 ft) diameter Robbins machine, which was launched earlier in 2008 to bore a drainage tunnel on the same project.
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Sep 29, 2008
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Watson-Marlow peristaltic pumps in breakthrough application
South West Water is using a peristaltic pump from Watson-Marlow Bredel for dosing coagulant into raw reservoir water for purification purposes. It is thought to be the first time peristaltic technology has been used on a coagulant application, certainly within the southwest region.
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Sep 24, 2008
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Herrenknecht giants reach their targets in Shanghai
Two Herrenknecht tunnel boring machines, the largest in the world with a diameter of 15.43 meters, successfully completed their crossing beneath the Yangtze River in Shanghai. On May 28 and September 5, 2008, the two Mixshields met their target shafts precisely on the Yangtze river island Changxiang – far ahead of schedule. The 7,472 meter long tunnels connecting the Shanghai district of Pudong with Changxiang island have created efficient transport systems in only 20 months.
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Sep 18, 2008
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Ditch Witch and Equipment Web Services join forces to offer exclusive used inventory site for Ditch Witch dealers
The Ditch Witch® organization, the industry leader in the design and manufacture of underground construction equipment, along with Equipment Web Services (EWS), a division of Dominion Enterprises, announce the launch of DitchWitchUsed.com.
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Sep 15, 2008
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Experts and decision-makers from all over the world look for collective resolutions to reduce loss of drinking water
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stein & Partner GmbH provides sustainable education and training of market players with web-based training portal
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Sep 11, 2008
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Essential investment for the future: Thames Water outlines £6.5 billion plan for water and sewerage services
Thames Water has published proposals for its largest ever investment programme while still keeping customers’ bills below the industry average for the next five years.
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Sep 09, 2008
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Robbins TBM overcomes high overburden at Olmos
A 5.3 m (17.4 ft) Robbins TBM is standing up to the pressure in Peru. The Main Beam machine is boring a 13.9 km (8.6 mi) long tunnel through the Andes Mountains, beneath up to 2,000 m (6,500 ft) of hard, potentially squeezing rock.
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