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Longtime Municipal Director Todd Reck Reflects on MVP Career
? Reck: Some of the major infrastructure failures you experience working for a water utility can..., everyone has a cell phone and wants to record and post the event to social media. You can’t...: You’re known for having close ties with Texas A&M University. Can you tell us about that? Reck... & Exhibition, in Fort Worth, Texas. UC: What led you to move from an engineering consulting firm...
CIGMAT Focuses Research on Real-Time Monitoring
a fluid with three parameters and can be represented mathematically as τ = τo1 + k × (γ.)n (2... of soft rock/stiff clay and unconfined compressive strength (σu, psi = 2Su)). This relationship can... the material electrical property that can be selected for monitoring. At the CIGMAT research...-frequency response and the Vipulanandan Impedance Model to identify the critical property that can...
S&N Adapts, Grows To Meet Market Needs
North Carolina-based contracting company S&N Communications has quietly evolved from...;N currently has active projects in the Pacific Northwest, Southwest and Midwest as well as its home...&N also is active in the electrical power, natural gas and other utility markets. “Over... 100,000 drops per year,” said Allen Powell, S&N chief executive officer and president...
Locating Systems: The Core Of Every Successful Bore
-dimensional position of the drill tool (length, depth, side-to side) and can monitor the tool head... drill site locations can use single wire locators. We have done offsets of 1,000 feet and depths over... for drill operators because of the deflections they can cause to the drill’s tooling,&rdquo... and advanced equipment and know they can mix and match if needed, as well as upgrade a basic system when...
TTC Announces Second Annual Auger Boring School
Augers, Baroid Industrial Drilling, Barbco, Brierley Associates, Midwest Mole, McMillen Jacobs Associates... and filled with varied soil types including clay (dirt), dry sand, wet sand and gravel (crushed...
Underground Companies Participate In ICUEE
you to pullback without ever having to take the drill head off. Rear facing carbides and MudBoost... controlled from an operator’s station on the surface, you can count on pure precision. Muck removal... utility box is 55 percent larger than previous designs and can be installed at any time, allowing... uptime and performance – all with minimal maintenance. The 97-horsepower 580 Super N features...
Real Business in the Big Easy
at what you can look forward to. Education is key at UCT. The main, or primary program, runs Tuesday... soon. Alongside the educational opportunities, you can view the very equipment and technologies you learned about in the sessions by visiting the exhibit hall. There, you can network with companies.... You can even buy equipment on the spot. You will receive a glimpse of old-school ideas for pipe...
Frank Canon, renowned figure in HDD industry, dies at 77
, which can be viewed here. Canon, raised in Pearland, Texas, graduated from Pearland High School in 1965..., and together they had two sons, Barrett and Jared. Joining Baroid in 1975, Canon’s career took... Baroid's Industrial Drilling Products Division, dedicating himself entirely to trenchless technology... can be made to Plantersville Baptist Church....
Pioneers of HDD Reflect on Hall of Fame Careers
to the machine. If you got into clay, you’d squirt some dish soap in your drill rod and put the water... business in 1961, Dick and his brother, Ted, developed hydraulic-powered drill rigs and patented... a handheld, 3-horsepower motor that required two operators to power 20-foot lengths of drill rod. “It was a dangerous tool,” he said. “You had a little fish-tailed bit that you’d use for drilling...
GMP Introduces Gentle Air Cable Blower
General Machine Products (KT), LLC, a subsidiary of Klein Tools, introduces the Gentle Air Micro Fiber Cable Blower (P/N 89916). Engineered to install micro fiber cable into pre-installed 0.15... an excellent value. Powered by a conventional, cordless drill (not included), a drive roller... gauge Can be operated by a single person Backed by GMP’s 80 years of engineering integrity and defect...
Laney Solves Unique Shore Approach with Record-Setting Direct Pipe Installation
, a prefabricated pipeline can be installed, and the required borehole excavated at the same time... of the preliminary drill and the location of the breakthrough of the pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico... separate drill strings and three mid-welds during tunneling.” From its launch pit, soil... and then to the machine’s cutter head. During excavation, the tunnel face can be controlled consistently and safely...
HX-1TRN Quick Connect From Hunting Is Cutting-Edge Downhole Solution
tooling, there are very few things you can call revolutionary. But the HX-1TRN truly is,” said Klane Kirby... on every downhole tool you have in the box. We can’t wait for our customers to try it out.” Hunting’s... the thread pattern with a lead every 90 degrees, so you have four places to start threading, as opposed... and testing of drill pipe and pipe accessories for use in HDD applications. With strong roots in the oil...
Akron Cites Savings as Massive Sewer Project Proceeds
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Officials say a $1.1 billion Akron water and sewer project is under budget as work that includes a massive underground tunnel continues. The Akron Beacon Journal reports (http://bit.ly/2jP3A2J ) a drill will begin cutting a 27-foot circle this July for a tunnel just over a mile... none of the city’s estimated annual 742 million gallons of wastewater-rain mix will touch...
Equipment Spotlight: Rock Construction Equipment & Tools
torque accommodates rigs with as low as 40-gpm drill fluid flow. Melfred Borzall’s Rock...-It for as little as one week, with the rental time starting when you receive the tool and ending...? Talk to our rock drilling specialists and Melfred Borzall will build you a motor to fit your specific... line and grade. The cutting head features Tungsten carbide bullet bits that can be used...
CIGMAT Report: Update From This Unique, Industry-Specific Ongoing Research Program
and clay bricks. Test plans (i) Full Scale Test The coatings can be applied to a dry or wet... materials for various applications. A number of geotechnical topics related to expansive clay, rapid... is the bonding between the concrete/clay brick surface and the grouting material. Chemical resistance... is one that can withstand the effect of service conditions in which it is subjected; therefore...
- Hudson Tunnel Project set to generate 95,000 jobs during construction phase, report says
- Boring machine 'Chessie' resumes drilling at Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel site after anchor incident
- Guam contractor faces $1 million fine over repeated trench safety violations, OSHA investigation reveals
- Fusion in paradise
- CIPP rehabilitation of pressurized pipelines