October 2013, Vol. 68 No. 10

Advertisers from the print edition of Underground Construction, October 2013, Vol. 68 No. 10.

BOND, a construction management and general contracting firm, has announced several key hires at its Connecticut and New Jersey offices as part of the company’s long-term expansion plans.

The Plastics Pipe Institute Inc. (PPI), a trade association representing all segments of the plastic pipe industry, has announced its new board of directors for 2013.

North American Composites (NAC), a division of Interplastic Corporation, recently achieved ISO 14001:2004 certification for their 27 distribution facilities.

Cantega Technologies Inc., a solution-oriented company and manufacturer of products that improve power system reliability has formed a strategic alliance with Quanta Services, a leading specialized contracting services company that delivers infrastructure solutions for the electric power and natural gas and pipeline industries.

Sauereisen, a third-generation manufacturer of corrosion-resistant materials, announced that its president, J. Eric Sauereisen, has been named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in the Family Business category in the Western Pennsylvania/West Virginia region.

Brierley Associates continues to grow and celebrates the opening of a new office located in Burnsville, MN.

Xylem is relocating its Chesapeake, VA, branch office, which is part of Xylem Dewatering Solutions, featuring Godwin products and Flygt pumps for construction and mining.

From the second quarter of 2014 Volvo CE customers will be able to have their Tier 4i/Stage IIIb machines fitted with a special engine conversion kit. This kit will enable Volvo owners to sell their used machines on to countries where high-sulphur fuels are still used.

Jack Doheny Companies (JDC), a leader in municipal, utility and industrial equipment, has completed its merger with longtime business affiliate Jet-Vac Inc., Wharton, NJ. JDC has sold sewer cleaning, DOT-certified vacuum trucks, pipeline inspection and other related equipment for more than three decades.

Kobelco Construction Machinery USA, a global leader in the manufacture of crawler excavators, recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony at their new Houston, TX-based North American headquarters following the relaunch of the brand as an independent product line earlier this year.

Keith Hanks, senior environmental engineer for the Wastewater Conveyance Engineering Division for the city of Los Angeles, CA, retired from the industry effective Sept. 21.

A strong yet spoolable pipe capable of handling operating pressures up to 1,500 psi was used as an alternative to traditional steel pipe to create a three-mile water transfer line in a rough region of north-central Pennsylvania.

Getting tired of constant Keystone XL Pipeline updates? Getting weary of the incessant anti-Keystone rhetoric being spread by a seemingly never-ending group of environmental and anti-fossil fuel zealots?

Little Beaver is making it easier than ever to create clean, horizontal bores with its Horizontal Boring Kits.

STRUXURE Construction Mats are engineered using Axion’s patented Recycled Structural Composite (RSC) formula – making them extremely strong, durable and impervious to rot, fungus, insects and moisture.

Rokla GmbH is the exclusive producer of the latest generation of Webster Hydraulic Cutting Units made with high-quality components from Germany.

Unlike traditional hard hats, Protecto Products’ reflective hard hats can be identified by their unique and fashionable silver strip patterns which provide high visibility for those working in the utility, construction, mining, freight, cargo, and other industries where headwear protection and visibility are critical to function and safety.

Terramac LLC has introduced custom-made, removable cleats for its RT9 rubber track crawler carrier. The steel cleats provide a solution for contractors working in icy or snow-covered mountainous terrain, on extremely muddy ground or whenever additional traction is required.

The vCam-5 Camera System from Vivax-Metrotech offers a fully equipped system at an affordable price.

The InviziQ Pressure Sewer System is a smarter alternative to conventional gravity sewage options.

With a weight of 2.5 tons, the ECR25D compact excavator achieves greater breakout and tearout forces (8,453 pounds combined) than the 2.8-ton ECR28 excavator it replaces.

In late summer 2012, Carstensen Contracting Inc., Pipestone, MN, learned of an opportunity to bid on a water pipe-laying project in Oklahoma. Prior to bidding the project, Carstensen Contracting searched for a screener crusher bucket that would work in the rocky terrain and allow them to reuse the material on site, thus allowing them to underbid other contractors who would have had to haul in bedding material.

Richard Neil Horton of League City, TX, passed away on Aug. 18, at the age of 85. Horton served as vice president of both Ingersoll Rand and Sullair Corp. prior to founding 247 Equipment Co. Inc. in the early 1980s.

Ray Lynn Barnes, 50, died Aug. 1 in Tahlequah, OK. A former pipeliner, Barnes was the son of Sheehan Pipe Line Construction Company’s long-time superintendent Thelbert Barnes and his wife Wanda, who survive him.

NSF International has certified Centennial Plastics Inc.’s CenFuse geothermal pipes to the American National Standard for Ground-Source Geothermal Piping Systems – NSF/ANSI Standard 358-1: Polyethylene Pipe and Fittings for Water-Based Ground-Source “Geothermal” Heat Pump Systems.

The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) has approved financial assistance to the town of Woodlock, TX, for a loan of $427,613 for wastewater system improvements.

United States’ construction machinery exports dropped 21 percent during the first half of 2013, with $10.8 billion shipped to global markets compared to $13.7 billion at midyear 2012, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). The AEM off-road equipment manufacturing trade group consolidates U.S. Commerce Dept. data with other sources into global trend reports for members.

The North Texas Chapter of the Underground Construction Technology Association (UCTA) awarded a total of $9,000 in college scholarships at their August general meeting held in Euless, TX.

Common Ground Alliance (CGA), the stakeholder-run organization dedicated to protecting underground utility lines and the people who dig near them, has announced findings from its comprehensive 2012 Damage Information Reporting Tool (DIRT) Report.

Pipeline Renewal Technologies (PRT), a leader in innovative solutions for underground pipe rehabilitation, has just welcomed pipelining specialist Flow-Liner Systems to its family of sales partners.

Picote Oy Ltd., headquartered in Porvoo, Finland has selected LMK Technologies as its North American Distributor for the full line of trenchless drain rehabilitation machinery and tools for use in cured-in‐place pipe (CIPP) and drain cleaning. LMK Technologies located in Ottawa, IL, is an industry leader in trenchless rehabilitation for lateral sewer lines and mainline to lateral connection systems.

The main focus of the Center for Innovative Grouting Materials and Technology (CIGMAT) research is on infrastructure maintenances and developing new smart materials for construction, maintenance and repair applications.

From its beginning, tunneling has been a specialty of Akkerman Inc. As the company celebrates its 40th year of continuous operation in 2013, Akkerman remains a leader in underground construction through its development, manufacture and support of quality pipe jacking and microtunneling equipment used to install a variety of underground infrastructure.

Imagine this: • A sewer worker enters a manhole for one more look late in the day, just to check one final thing. He does this without an entry permit, a harness and tri-pod or a safety person on the surface. His co-workers, not knowing what he is doing, miss him. They look in the manhole and he is not there. He is found an hour or so later, dead at the sewage treatment plant.

Internal corrosion creates problems wherever it lurks or even flagrantly exists, and with the Floridian Surficial Aquifer System being the sole water provider for Jacksonville, FL, residents, corrosion prevention is absolutely vital.

It might not be possible to make a municipal pipe-bursting run more difficult than a 540-foot section of an Eagle, ID, to upgrade the sewer running beneath a BanBury Golf Course fairway. The section was part of a more than 2,000-foot project upsizing eight-inch PVC to 12-inch HDPE pipe that included reconnection of 17 sewer services through upscale residences of the BanBury Meadows community.

Imagine a construction project in a well-developed part of a city where a directional drilling crew is preparing to install a section of gas pipe in an easement that already contains multiple utilities.

In California, the city of Covina is nearing completion of a citywide improvement program to upgrade and update the city’s underground sewer infrastructure.

Ground penetrating radar from McLaughlin, Sensors & Software, Vermeer, Geophysical Survey Systems Inc. (GSSI) and Ditch Witch.

Compact track loaders from New Holland, Bobcat, John Deere, Case, Caterpillar and Kubota Tractor Corp. <strong>New Holland</strong>

Oil and gas operations are near the top of the list of sectors which will be affected if the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) proposed new workplace standard on crystalline silica becomes final.