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GreenEarth in Anglesea

Australia-based Greenearth Energy has been awarded a total of A$25million under the Victorian Government’s ‘Energy Technology Innovation Strategy’ for the next two stages of its Anglesea Geothermal Project.

Chiltern hires BAM

Chiltern Railways has awarded BAM Nuttall a £190 million contract that will create a new main line from London Marylebone station to Oxfordshire and the Midlands, UK.

Layne Christensen project freezes traffic

CLOSING off two of five traffic lanes on 11th Avenue in bustling downtown Manhattan to drill more than 200 freeze holes as part of a subway system upgrade was not the biggest problem facing Keith Myers and Joe Sopko of Layne Christensen.

Northern Territory GEO

Australia’s Northern Territory entered the geothermal age in December when its legislation and regulations concerning geothermal exploration and development went ‘live’. Seventeen submissions for exploration licences were lodged ‘over the counter’ on the first day.

DMA joins Golder

Duane Miller and Associates (DMA), a firm that specialises in arctic and geotechnical engineering, based in Anchorage, has become part of the Alaska operations of Golder Associates. Considered to have the largest cold-regions geotechnical laboratory in Alaska, DMA has also developed specialised geotechnical field-exploration methods and equipment to deal with extreme arctic and subarctic conditions.

Bachy Soletanche conducts cliff-top piling project

BACHY Soletanche has completed a contiguous piled-wall installation project for the Portobello Pumping Station in East Sussex as part of Southern Water’s environmental-improvement scheme to bring cleaner seas to the area.

Trevi wins two special foundations contracts

TREVI Foundations Nigeria, a company controlled by Gruppo Trevi, has won new special foundations contracts in West Africa totalling about US$60 million.

Lankelma ground investigation for Glasgow stadium

LANKELMA carried out 23 full-displacement pressuremeter tests over four days in the east end of Glasgow along a proposed link road.

Bauer uses CSM for Hoover rehab

AFTER the disastrous impact of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the US Army Corps of Engineers considered the Herbert Hoover Dyke in Florida to be within the top 10 dams in the nation requiring rehabilitation.

Atlas Copco agrees to buy Quincy Compressors

ATLAS Copco has agreed to acquire Quincy Compressor from EnPro Industries for approximately US$190 million.



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