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Construction output down Figures published by the Office of National Statistics in January showed that construction output fell by 0.5% in the final quarter of 2011 and contributed to an overall fall of 0.2% in the UK economy.	Magazine Article	02 Feb 2012	0 Stars
Crossrail build begins Crossrail has announced that tunnelling on the London rail scheme will commence in March.	Magazine Article	02 Feb 2012	0 Stars
Istanbul project uses Atlas Copco compressors Two Atlas Copco portable compressors are being used for mini-piling during the transformation of Istanbul’s famed Ali Sami Yen Stadium into a major commercial development.	Magazine Article	02 Feb 2012	0 Stars
Liebherr rig backs German canal build A Liebherr LB 16 rotary drilling rig with BAT 160 Kelly drive is being used to install foundation piles as part of the River Emscher conversion for the Emschergenossenschaft(association for water management in Essen, Germany). The conversi	Magazine Article	02 Feb 2012	0 Stars
Drilling debacle Two trucks and a bus were hit when a piling rig working on a new housing estate penetrated the roof of the Silver road tunnel on Stockholm’s southern link in January.	Magazine Article	02 Feb 2012	0 Stars
Green light for HS2 The UK government has approved a new national high-speed rail network project (HS2).	Magazine Article	02 Feb 2012	0 Stars
Currency rates this month This month's currency rates	Magazine Article	02 Feb 2012	0 Stars
Mimer Energy in £10m pioneering venture Cornwall-based energy developer, Mimer Energy, has signed a joint venture deal with an US town to deliver a £10 million geothermal project that will be the first of its kind in that country.	Magazine Article	02 Feb 2012	0 Stars
Bachy starts piling at the SECC Geotechnical engineer, Bachy Soletanche, has started piling at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) in Glasgow, in preparation for a new multi-storey car park	Magazine Article	02 Feb 2012	0 Stars
New life for colliery Land and remediation specialist Merriman has gained outline planning permission for 124 new homes on a 3.15ha site at the former Annesley Colliery in the East Midlands.	Magazine Article	02 Feb 2012	0 Stars
Tenders for Toronto LRT Canadian transit agency Metrolinx is about to invite tenders for the construction of the Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown Light Rapid Transitline (LRT) in Toronto.	Magazine Article	13 Dec 2011	0 Stars
Malaysia shortlists five Reuters News Agency reports that the Malaysian government has shortlisted five firms to bid for a US$2.2 billion rail tunnel project.	Magazine Article	13 Dec 2011	0 Stars
DMT in 75th geothermic survey project Essen-based international engineering and consulting firm DMT has completed its 75th deep-strata seismic exploration project at the geothermic field at the Überlandwerk Gross-Gerau (ÜWG).	Magazine Article	13 Dec 2011	0 Stars
Alpine breakthrough Construction firm Alpine recently announced a breakthrough on the US$108 million New Kaiser Wilhelm tunnel on the rail line between Koblenz and Perl,Germany.	Magazine Article	13 Dec 2011	0 Stars
Sandvik rig in Qatar limestone quarry Qatar National Cement Company is using a Sandvik DX700 tophammer crawler drill rig at its largest limestone quarry, located some 80km from Doha.	Magazine Article	13 Dec 2011	0 Stars
Skanska gains rail work Norway’s national rail administration, Jernbaneverket, has awarded Skanska a US$235›million contract for the construction of a twin-track railway on the Vestfold Line in the south of the country.	Magazine Article	13 Dec 2011	0 Stars
BBMV wins Crossrail job BBMV, a joint venture of Balfour Beatty, Morgan Sindall and VINCI Construction, has been awarded the Whitechapel Main Station Works Crossrail contract, worth £110 million.	Magazine Article	13 Dec 2011	0 Stars
Miami tunnel on track Following a series of delays and objections, excavation has finally started on the 1.2km Port of Miami tunnel in Florida, US.	Magazine Article	13 Dec 2011	0 Stars
Geotechnics aids offshore wind farm survey Geotechnics has helped to complete an offshore survey for a number of wind-farm interconnector cable routes in the German Bight	Magazine Article	13 Dec 2011	0 Stars
Bachy finishes Reading piling Geotechnical contractor Bachy Soletanche has completed the third phase of its piling contract at Reading Station, UK	Magazine Article	13 Dec 2011	0 Stars
GREUTER anchors record Swiss company GREUTER AG recently installed what construction and underground technologies supplier Dywidag Systems International (DSI)confirmed to be the longest permanent anchors ever manufactured in Europe.	Magazine Article	13 Dec 2011	0 Stars
Panama first for MOBA MDS-2000 Drilling System The MDS-2000 Drilling System from MOBA Mobile Automation has been used for the first time at a granite quarry in South America.	Magazine Article	13 Dec 2011	0 Stars
Rio tunnel progress Sandvik drill jumbos are said to be playing an important role in the good progress being made in excavating the 1.1km Grota Funda road tunnel for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro	Magazine Article	08 Nov 2011	0 Stars
2nd Avenue tunnel over Tunnelling has been completed on the first phase of New York’s Second Avenue Subway scheme, following the recent breakthrough of a Herrenknecht TBM at the Lexington Avenue-63rd Street station in Manhattan	Magazine Article	08 Nov 2011	0 Stars
Beckton shaft finished The first of three shafts at Beckton for London’s Lee tunnel has been finished by the MVB joint venture, comprising Morgan Sindall, Vinci Construction Grands Projetsand Bachy Soletanche	Magazine Article	08 Nov 2011	0 Stars
Currency rates this month This month's currency rates	Magazine Article	08 Nov 2011	0 Stars
Thor Mining results Thor Mining, the Australian gold, tungsten and molybdenum explorer and developer, has announced initial positive results from its 2011 resource development drilling programme, undertaken at the Molyhil Tungsten and Molybdenum Project in Australia’s Northern Territory	Magazine Article	08 Nov 2011	0 Stars
UGC set to rise The potential energy supply from underground coal gasification (UCG) is vast, according to a Zeus Development Corp study.	Magazine Article	08 Nov 2011	0 Stars
Murphy wins cable deal UK Power Networks has awarded civil-engineering contractor Murphy a US$15 million contract to partially design, construct and project-manage a 1.3km cable tunnel in London	Magazine Article	08 Nov 2011	0 Stars
Manitou at Airport Link Two Manitou MHT 10120 L TURBO telescopic handlers (12t capacity and 9.62m lift height) have been supplied by CQ Forklift Services (CQ) to assist with the civil construction of the cut-and-cover tunnels at the Toombul worksite on Brisbane’s Airport Link project	Magazine Article	08 Nov 2011	0 Stars
Creat Resources explores On October 20, Creat Resources Holdings (CRHL) announced a new A$2 million (£1.3 million) drilling programme on its mineral-exploration acreage in Western Tasmania	Magazine Article	08 Nov 2011	0 Stars
Crossrail prepares for excavations Work is under way at Wallasea Island, Essex, to prepare for the arrival of 4.5Mt of excavated material from Crossrail tunnels next year	Magazine Article	08 Nov 2011	0 Stars
AECOM digs Indianapolis tunnel The city of Indianapolis, US, has awarded a US$25 million contract to global infrastructure provider Aecom for the provision of construction-management services for the US$280million Deep Rock Tunnel Connection (DRTC) and dewatering pump station in Indianapolis	Magazine Article	08 Nov 2011	0 Stars
Bauer wins Panamanian pit-wall work Bauer Fundaciones Panamá, a subsidiary of Bauer Spezial-tiefbau, has won the contract to install the excavation pit walls for four of the eight stations that are being planned for the new Panama City underground rail line	Magazine Article	08 Nov 2011	0 Stars
Gateway project for Vibro and Menard Vibro Projects and Menard have formed a new company called VibroMenard, which will target major ground improvement works in the UK	Magazine Article	08 Nov 2011	0 Stars
Bauer lays foundations for Sochi Winter Olympics Bauer is providing its specialist foundation engineering for the extensive building programme under way in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, in preparation for the 2012 Winter Olympics	Magazine Article	08 Nov 2011	0 Stars
Liebherr rig in Swiss bank job A Liebherr LB 28 drilling rig has been used for the construction of a new Raiffeisenbank building in Rorschach, Switzerland	Magazine Article	08 Nov 2011	0 Stars
Costain-Skanska hands over first Crossrail tunnel portal A Costain-Skanska joint venture has handed over the first major civils contract to Crossrail after finishing the construction of the Royal Oak portal in west London	Magazine Article	08 Nov 2011	0 Stars
TECH/Devico depth record A record deep, directional core-drilling cut has been successfully performed at a drilling project in Guyana	Magazine Article	12 Oct 2011	0 Stars
Vinci wins Chilean contract French infrastructure provider Vinci has won a contract to design and build two tunnels for Codelco, the Chilean national copper company	Magazine Article	12 Oct 2011	0 Stars
Trevi wins metro job in Copenhagen Trevi Group has won a contract to undertake special foundation and consolidation work on the Cityringen Metro Project of Copenhagen	Magazine Article	12 Oct 2011	0 Stars
Manx UGC project The Isle of Man has been approached to host a trial gas production and carbon-capture project	Magazine Article	12 Oct 2011	0 Stars
Bauer provides Abu Dhabi link Bauer International is at work on a pedestrian tunnel at Nation Towers, Abu Dhabi	Magazine Article	12 Oct 2011	0 Stars
Grundodrill bores through mountainous terrain in Germany A Grundodrill Type 25 N HDD rig from Tracto-Technik was used to install a new bore in the German town of Sollstedt	Magazine Article	12 Oct 2011	0 Stars
Crossrail issues tunnel portal contract notice Crossrail has announced that a contract notice has been placed in the Official Journal of the European Union, seeking expressions of interest for the remaining tunnel portal at Victoria Dock	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2011	0 Stars
Bauer works Canadian Route 1 Gateway Bauer Foundations Canada is providing bored piles for four bridges on the Route 1 Gateway Project in Saint John, New Brunswick	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2011	0 Stars
Doha metro invitation Qatar Railways (QRail) has invited local and global consortia to submit expressions of interest by September 11, for the design and construction of the Doha metro in Qatar	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2011	0 Stars
Bauer digs foundations for tidal power plant off Orkney Bauer Renewables has installed a drilled-in, monopile foundation for a tidal-energy turbine at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), offshore from Orkney in Scotland	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2011	0 Stars
Bolivian drilling starts Republic Gold has started the first phase of a 10,000m drilling programme at the Amayapampa gold project in Bolivia	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2011	0 Stars
Herrenknecht sets new drilling length record The Terra Invader 350 ‘InnovaRig’ from Herrenknecht Vertical has set a new drilling length record of 4,937m while drilling for hot, thermal water in the Bavarian community of Kirchweidach	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2011	0 Stars
JV wins MAFA rail contract A Colas Rail Morgan Sindall joint venture has been appointed to carry out works under Network Rail’s Enhancements Multi Assets Framework Agreement (MAFA) to improve the rail infrastructure on the Western route; an area between Paddington, the west of England and South Wales	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2011	0 Stars
Fourth Crossrail win for Keller Costain-Skanska Costain Costain-Skanska has been awarded the contract to build the Crossrail Paddington Station	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2011	0 Stars
Hindhead tunnel opens Following a 4.5-year building period, the 1.8km Hindhead road tunnel in southern England opened on July 27	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2011	0 Stars
GECCO2 completes university installation GECCO2 has completed the installation and commissioning of a 180kW heating and cooling system for the University of Nottingham’s Science & Engineering Building	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2011	0 Stars
TrenchMix brings flood relief Developed in the UK by Bachy Soletanche and Mastenbroek, a TrenchMix machine has been helping to provide flood protection at a site of special scientific interest (SSSI) in Nottingham.	Headline Article	14 Sep 2011	0 Stars
Liebherr picked for Swiss piling Hilti & Jehle Grundbau has chosen Liebherr drilling rigs to build secant piled walls for an administrative building in Rorschach, Switzerland.	Magazine Article	03 Aug 2011	0 Stars
BSP hammers Manchester Metro BSP International’s new DX-RT hammer has been put to work on the Manchester Metro rail line, linking Oldham and Rochdale	Magazine Article	03 Aug 2011	0 Stars
Hutte rig for Croatian anchors Hütte Bohrtechnik’s HBR 605 drilling rig is being used in the construction of a seafront shopping mall in Rijeka, Croatia	Magazine Article	03 Aug 2011	0 Stars
Bachy Soletanche in £25m Nuclear AMRC construction Bachy Soletanche will shortly have completed all three phases of a piling contract for the new Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and Knowledge Transfer Centre at the University of Sheffield for BAM Construction	Magazine Article	03 Aug 2011	0 Stars
Grundodrill 7XP bores under South African highway Rolkon Trenchless Technologies has used the latest horizontal directional drilling techniques to install PE pipes for electric cables beneath the N3 toll route highway in Germiston, South Africa	Magazine Article	03 Aug 2011	0 Stars
Geotechnics investigates ground for dam Geotechnics is undertaking a ground investigation at Wimbleball Dam in North Somerset	Magazine Article	03 Aug 2011	0 Stars
Testing the Thames Work to test ground conditions beneath the River Thames, as part of the Thames Tideway project, will continue until the end of June	Magazine Article	01 Jun 2011	0 Stars
Veidekke in turbine win Veidekke Entreprenør has won an EPC contract for the construction of the Lista Wind Power Plant in Farsund, Norway.	Magazine Article	01 Jun 2011	0 Stars
Ocean drilling details Details have been released of the upcoming International Ocean Discovery Program	Magazine Article	01 Jun 2011	0 Stars
Golder motorway finished Golder Associates’ New Zealand branch has completed work at the SH20-1 Manukau Extension motorway project in Auckland.	Magazine Article	01 Jun 2011	0 Stars
German geothermal H Angers Söhne is using a Terra Invader 350 InnovaRig to drill boreholes for a new geothermal-powered electricity and heating power plant in Bavaria, Germany.	Magazine Article	01 Jun 2011	0 Stars
GECCO2 scoops Bradford contract GECCO2 has been awarded a contract to install 22 boreholes at the Newlands Community Centre in Eccleshill, Bradford, UK	Magazine Article	01 Jun 2011	0 Stars
Treviicos engineers DC hotel Ground-engineering works are now under way for the new Mariott Marquis hotel in Washington DC, US.	Magazine Article	01 Jun 2011	0 Stars
DavidBeatt Borrteknik wins Malmö GSHP contract Sweden-based DavidBeatt Borrteknik has been awarded a contract for a GSHP installation in the city of Malmö in southern Sweden.	Magazine Article	01 Jun 2011	0 Stars
Geotechnics probes docks Geotechnics has successfully completed investigation works for a redevelopment project at the Port of Liverpool, UK.	Magazine Article	01 Jun 2011	0 Stars
Nicholson wraps it up in Seattle Nicholson Construction has finished the U220 ground engineering contract at the University Link project, in Seattle, US.	Magazine Article	01 Jun 2011	0 Stars
Rwanda eyes Great Rift Rwandan has announced plans to start drilling exploratory geothermal wells in the Great Rift Valley fault system	Magazine Article	18 May 2011	0 Stars
Kinross targets Tasiast potential Kinross Gold has completed 70,000m of exploration drilling at its Tasiast gold mine in Mauritania	Magazine Article	18 May 2011	0 Stars
Serra Pelada boost Colossus Minerals has intersected further high-grade mineralisation at the Serra Pelada gold-platinum deposit in Brazil	Magazine Article	18 May 2011	0 Stars
Habanero drills the Yukon Habanero Resources has hired Equity Exploration Consultants to oversee its 2011 drilling programme in the Yukon, Canada	Magazine Article	18 May 2011	0 Stars
Ramsgate refit Facilities are being upgraded at the UK port of Ramsgate	Magazine Article	18 May 2011	0 Stars
Compacting in Kuwait Ahmadia Group has put seven Liebherr duty-cycle crawler cranes to work at the Jaber Al-Ahmad City project in Kuwait.	Magazine Article	18 May 2011	0 Stars
Thames tunnel report Thames Water has published a report on its four-month, phase one public consultation for the proposed Thames Tunnel	Magazine Article	18 May 2011	0 Stars
Wide intercept at Ana Paula Ongoing drilling at Newstrike Capital’s Ana Paula gold-silver property in Guerrero state, Mexico, has intersected multiple mineralised zones	Magazine Article	18 May 2011	0 Stars
New injection well at Neal Hot Springs US Geothermal has started drilling for injection well NHS12 at its Neal Hot Springs project in Oregon, US.	Magazine Article	18 May 2011	0 Stars
TT-UK links Northampton homes TT-UK’s directional drilling specialists have helped to complete a housing development in Northampton, UK	Magazine Article	18 May 2011	0 Stars
Bachy piles for Hellrigg wind turbines Bachy Soletanche is working on a ten-week, £500,000 piling contract at the Hellrigg Wind Farm, near the Solway Firth,	Magazine Article	18 May 2011	0 Stars
Wafi-Golpu sized Harmony Gold has confirmed the scale of the proposed development of the joint-venture Wafi-Golpu copper-gold project in Papua New Guinea	Magazine Article	18 May 2011	0 Stars
Oz Minerals releases maiden Carrapateena resource Oz Minerals has calculated an inferred resource for the Carrapateena copper-gold-uranium-silver deposit in South Australia	Magazine Article	18 May 2011	0 Stars
Crossrail hands out final tunnel contracts On April 7, Crossrail awarded the Thames Tunnel construction and Connaught tunnel refurbishment contracts.	Magazine Article	18 May 2011	0 Stars
Bauer’s Hanoi Sanctuary Bauer’s Vietnamese subsidiary, Bauer Vietnam, has reported swift progress at the Exchange City District project in Hanoi	Magazine Article	18 May 2011	0 Stars
Correction In the country focus (p36) of the March issue of GDI, Geobrugg AG was incorrectly referred to as a sister company of BAM Ritchies.	Magazine Article	18 Apr 2011	0 Stars
Liebherr rigs smooth Swiss tunnelling with pile-wall job Marti Tunnelbau has completed a secant pile wall for slope and foundation pit reinforcement at the A16 road construction project in Courrendlin, Switzerland.	Magazine Article	18 Apr 2011	0 Stars
Jaipur Metro appointment Mott MacDonald has been appointed by the Jaipur Metro Rail Corp as technical and general consultant for the Jaipur metro project in India	Magazine Article	18 Apr 2011	0 Stars
Costain-Skanska JV win deal A Costain-Skanska JV has won a contract for advance civil engineering works at Bond Street station in London, UK, as part of the Crossrail scheme.	Magazine Article	18 Apr 2011	0 Stars
Veidekke scoops road bid Trafikverket has awarded Swedish contractor Veidekke Entreprenad a contract worth SEK155 million, to build feeder roads for the E4 motor way at Rosersberg in Stockholm.	Magazine Article	18 Apr 2011	0 Stars
Golder signs on offshore iron resource Golder Associates, the independent geological consultant, has signed off the world’s first official JORCcompliant offshore iron-ore mineral resource.	Magazine Article	18 Apr 2011	0 Stars
GECCO2 scoops energy pile deal Ground-source specialist GECCO2, has won its largest geothermal energy piles contract to date.	Magazine Article	18 Apr 2011	0 Stars
Chenalord wins Chilean mining deal Chenalord, a UK-based manufacturer of specialist tools for the drilling and mining industry, has won a contract potentially worth £400,000 per year to supply equipment to a mining company in Chile.	Magazine Article	18 Apr 2011	0 Stars
miniJET piles in Pensacola Layne Geoconstruction has successfully finished installing foundation pilings for the expansion and modernisation of a power plant in Pensacola, Florida, US.	Magazine Article	18 Apr 2011	0 Stars
Thames Tunnel keeps its options open	Magazine Article	18 Apr 2011	0 Stars
Crossrail puts Farringdon out to tender Crossrail announced the shortlist for C435 Farringdon station on February 18.	Magazine Article	18 Apr 2011	0 Stars
Gecco2 MCS win GECCO2 has secured the contract for a new ground-source heat pump (GSHP) installation at Batts Hall in Knowle, UK, including all excavation and groundworks.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2011	0 Stars
Lee Tunnel progresses On February 10, the Bachy Soletanche, Morgan Sindall and Vinci Construction joint venture poured the last diaphragm-wall panel for the first shaft at the Lee Tunnel overflow project in Stratford, UK.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2011	0 Stars
Piling up for £20m nuclear centre Contractor Morgan Sindall has begun work on the pile foundations for a new £20 million nuclear research centre in West Cumbria, UK.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2011	0 Stars
JV scoops Crossrail work BBMV, a joint-venture company comprising Morgan Sindall, Alpine BeMo Tunnelling, Balfour Beatty and Vinci Construction has been awarded the contract for the Crossrail Whitechapel and Liverpool Street Station tunnels.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2011	0 Stars
Geo drilling in Newcastle Drilling of a 2km-deep borehole has begun in the search for a renewable energy source at the Science Central site in Newcastle city centre, UK.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2011	0 Stars
Casing Udine In brief West Ring Road A Casagrande C850 DH piling rig has been put to work by Italian contractor ICOP to perform cased secant piling (CSP) at the new Udine West Ring Road project in Udine, Italy.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2011	0 Stars
Liebherr working well at Isar Contractor STG Spezialtiefbau has chosen a Liebherr LB 24 rotary drilling rig to install large-diameter, drilled piles, as part of the deep foundation and lining works under way at the new Isar Bridge	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2011	0 Stars
Bachy in Epsom Geotechnical contractor Bachy Soletanche, has finished phase two of CFA piling work at Epsom Station in Surrey	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2011	0 Stars
Bauer gives Moldova port foundations Bauer Spezialtiefbau has finished major foundation works for the expansion of Giurgiulesti International Free Port in the republic of Moldova.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2011	0 Stars
New copper intercepts for Nautilus Minerals Ocean-floor drilling at Nautilus Minerals’ Solwara 1 project in Papua New Guinea has revealed a number of intercepts of copper mineralisation exceeding 20%.	Magazine Article	04 Feb 2011	0 Stars
Triple JV to relieve River Lee contamination A joint venture between contractors Morgan Est, Vinci and Bachy Soletanche has begun work on the £635®million, 6.4km-long Lee Tunnel project that will prevent sewage discharge into the River Lee.	Magazine Article	04 Feb 2011	0 Stars
Keller cuts off flood Keller Grundbau has completed cut-off walls using soil mixing as part of flood protection work along the Upper Rhine River at Woerth/ Jockgrim (Karlsruhe) in Germany.	Magazine Article	04 Feb 2011	0 Stars
Aarsleff piles School for the Future Skanska called on specialist contractor Aarsleff Piling to help with foundation piling at the Castle View school on Canvey Island, UK.	Magazine Article	04 Feb 2011	0 Stars
Geotechnics probes White Hart Lane Geotechnics has successfully completed ground investigation works for the proposed redevelopment of Tottenham Hotspur’s White Hart Lane football ground in Tottenham, UK.	Magazine Article	04 Feb 2011	0 Stars
Geothermal Eden gets the go-ahead Cornwall Council has granted planning permission for the drilling of two boreholes to create an engineered geothermal system at the Eden Project near St Austell in Cornwall, UK.	Magazine Article	04 Feb 2011	0 Stars
Priority prepares site for Calidus HQ Specialist regeneration contractor, Priority Sites, has drilled a 15cm-diameter, 200m-deep borehole at a new factory development at Treleigh near Redruth in the UK.	Magazine Article	04 Feb 2011	0 Stars
Debut for Sandvik rig in Hong Kong Sandvik has delivered a new DC120 drill rig to the Leighton – John Holland joint venture in Hong Kong for use on the Lai Chi Kok Transfer Scheme (LCKTS).	Magazine Article	04 Feb 2011	0 Stars
Hot funding winners Three geothermal projects run by Keele University, Newcastle and Durham University and Cofely District Energy in Southampton have won a total of £1.1 million in funding from the UK Government’s Deep Geothermal Challenge Fund’s second round.	Magazine Article	04 Feb 2011	0 Stars
Costain bags Welsh deal Costain has been awarded a £59million contract by Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council for the Port Talbot PDR project in Port Talbot, UK.	Magazine Article	04 Feb 2011	0 Stars
Andina expands exploration plans Andina Minerals has announced plans to expand its 2010-11 drilling campaign from 20,000m to 31,600m, and has begun activities at its 100%-owned Volcan gold project in Chile.	Magazine Article	04 Feb 2011	0 Stars
Kenya ups geothermal Kenya’s biggest electricity producer KenGen, has received a US$364.5 million loan to develop a new 280MW geothermal plant and the associated infrastructure.	Magazine Article	04 Feb 2011	0 Stars
Royal oak start for crossrail tunnel A Costain-Skanska joint venture has begun work on the Crossrail tunnel portal at Royal Oak in west London, UK, next to Paddington Station.	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2010	0 Stars
Reclaiming Hong Kong Hong Kong’s Central Reclamation Phase 3 project is well under way. The entire scheme will provide 18ha of land adjacent to Central, the Special Administrative Region’s commercial business hub.	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2010	0 Stars
Bolstering Hume Dam A Bauer BG40 drill rig has been imported from Germany to work at the Hume Dam project on the Victoria-NSW border, Australia.	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2010	0 Stars
Christmas overhaul for Farringdon station A joint venture between contractors Costain and Laing O’Rourke has been hired by Network Rail to work on a £172 million remodelling contract at Farringdon station in London, UK.	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2010	0 Stars
Concreting Yenikapi Putzmeister has reported that concreting of the foundations of the new Yenikapi railway station in Istanbul, which began in February, is progressing well.	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2010	0 Stars
Royal Oldham facelift Integrated Health Projects has been awarded a £32.8 million contract to build phase 3 of a new development at The Royal Oldham Hospital in Manchester, UK, which will have a super centre for women and children.	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2010	0 Stars
Vinci wins eco-office job Vinci Construction UK has been selected by Veolia’s development partner, Opus Land, to build an environmentally friendly turnkey office building for Veolia Environmental Services...	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2010	0 Stars
US Exploration link-up US Exploration Equipment has partnered geotechnical engineering specialist Testech on a large public works project starting in Indianapolis, US.	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2010	0 Stars
Keller gets to work in Brisbane The Australian division of leading contractor Keller Group has been undertaking a series of works as part of the Brisbane Airport Link project.	Headline Article	21 Dec 2010	0 Stars
BSP piles in at Brazilian port complex UK-based hammer manufacturer BSP International foundations has helped to complete a key phase of the US$1.6 billion Port of Açu project at Sao joao da barra in southeast brazil, approximately 281km from Rio de janeiro.	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2010	0 Stars
Bauer installs ductile piles for local housing project in Luanda Bauer Angola has been appointed to install the piled foundations for 24 new buildings at the Nova Vida (New Life) Housing Development in Luanda, Angola.	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2010	0 Stars
Bachy begins piling in Oldham and on an interchange in Bromwich In the UK, Bachy Soletanche has begun work on a £360,000 piling project for Costain and its client, Viridor Laing, as part of the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority’s Recycling and Waste contract.	Magazine Article	23 Nov 2010	0 Stars
Quantec completes 48km Titan-24 survey for Scorpio Scorpio Mining has announced Quantec Geoscience’s completion of the 48km Titan-24 DCIP survey, centred over the San Rafael area of the Platte River project in Sinaloa, Mexico.	Magazine Article	23 Nov 2010	0 Stars
Direct Pipe method debuts in Florida In August, REM Directional installed a 215m-long pipeline beneath Highway 70 in Arcadia, Florida, US.	Magazine Article	23 Nov 2010	0 Stars
Aarsleff brings relief to Sittingbourne Kent County Council in the UK is building a new section of road on the north-eastern outskirts of Sittingbourne to reduce congestion in the town centre, and to improve access to the Eurolink Business Park	Magazine Article	23 Nov 2010	0 Stars
Neidhardt completes S8 job Foundation expert Neidhardt Grundbau has reported the successful completion of ground-stabilisation work for the S8 Expressway project, in Warsaw, Poland.	Magazine Article	23 Nov 2010	0 Stars
Water flows smoothly in Wigan When United Utilities needed to replace its waste-water treatment inlet works in the town of Wigan, UK, the company employed the IA+ joint venture to design and construct a new plant.	Magazine Article	23 Nov 2010	0 Stars
Guggenheim comes to Abu Dhabi Bauer Spezialtiefbau, together with its United Arab Emirates subsidiary, has recently undertaken specialist foundation works for the construction of two new Louvre and Guggenheim-style museums	Magazine Article	23 Nov 2010	0 Stars
US Geothermal project update Renewable energy development company US Geothermal has released an update on work at its Neal Hot Springs, San Emidio, Raft River and Gerlach (Nevada) projects.	Magazine Article	18 Oct 2010	0 Stars
Stabilising Sterling BAM Ritchies was contracted by Forth Electrical Services to carry out ground stabilisation works in Sterling, Scotland. During routine scaling and vegetation clearance works, Forth had noticed that the steep, rock slope behind one of its offices and car parks had become weakened...	Magazine Article	18 Oct 2010	0 Stars
Drill and blast begins at the Ceneri Base Tunnel In addition to construction taking place at the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland, work also began earlier this year on another part of the Swiss AlpTransit railway line – the 15.4km-long Ceneri Base Tunnel.	Magazine Article	18 Oct 2010	0 Stars
Safety is paramount for Bachy and Carillion JV Bachy Soletanche and Carillion Pilling have been working on an £18 million geotechnical contract, as part of carriageway improvements on the M1 motorway, junctions 10–13, from Luton to Milton Keynes, in the UK.	Magazine Article	18 Oct 2010	0 Stars
Nuclear first for Egypt In October 2007, President Hosni Mubarak relaunched Egypt’s civilian nuclear energy programme after a 20-year ‘gap’.	Magazine Article	18 Oct 2010	0 Stars
Bachy gets to work at the Barbican BACHY Soletanche has begun work on its first tower project of 2010.	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Ally Pally upgrade Soilmec has supplied two PSM-16 drill rigs to undertake upgrade work at Alexandra Palace in London.	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Queensland license Hot Rock has also been granted its first Queensland geothermal exploration permit.	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Funding for Hot Rock Hot Rock has signed a contract for a grant of US$6 million from the Australian government to carry out a drill-and-test programme at the Koroit Hot Sedimentary Aquifer Geothermal project in the Otway Basin of southwest Victoria.	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Geothermal gains ‘special use’ permit for San Emidio RENEWABLE energy company US Geothermal has received a ‘special use’ permit from the Washoe County Planning Commission for construction of its proposed 8.6MW Phase 1 power plant at the San Emidio project in northern Nevada, US.	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Kurt Motz in a festive mood at Reutlingen A new festival hall is being erected in Reutlingen, Germany, and the contract to build support for the foundation pit was assigned to Kurt Motz.	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Sonic success for First Bauxite in Guyana At First Bauxite’s refractory bauxite properties in Guyana, South America, the weather conditions and terrain create unique challenges, which prompted the company to purchase a rig from Sonic Drill Corp for its exploration and mining operations.	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Revor rejoices in Garzweiler mining region Specialist bore company Revor has completed a tricky job in the Garzweiler II mining area, to the East of the A61 motorway and South of the A44 motorway in Germany.	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Sandvik delivers first DE 710 rig in Europe GEOPS Balkan Drilling Services, the Serbian branch of Bulgarian exploration drilling contractor GEOPS, is putting the first Sandvik DE 710 drill rig in Europe into operation.	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Green light for UK’s first deep geothermal plant CORNWALL Council has given planning permission for the development of the UK’s first commercial, deep geothermal-power plant, near Redruth in Cornwall, UK.	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Bauer Malaysia wins Kuala Lumpur work MRCB Engineering has selected Bauer Malaysia as a contractor for the 348 Sentral project in Kuala Lumpur.	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Liebherr ploughs ahead in Hanoi DURING competitive comparison trials held in Hanoi, between a Liebherr LB28 XL rotary drilling rig and a similarly rated European competitor’s rig, foundations specialist Thiên An said the Liebherr was superior in terms of speed, fuel efficiency and drilling deeper holes.	Magazine Article	14 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Geotechnics team boost UK ground-investigation specialist Geotechnics has been appointed as framework contractor for United Utilities for the new fifth asset-management plan (AMP5) period.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Hercules awarded piling work on Kristianstad project Swedish drilling contractor Hercules Grundläggning has won the contract to install foundation piles for the construction of a recreation centre in Kristianstad.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Capital mobilises rigs Since listing in June, Capital Drilling, the emerging markets-focused drilling company, has continued to concentrate on the mobilisation of rigs...	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Sierra-ram ‘intent’ Sierra Geothermal Power and Ram Power have entered into a non-binding letter of intent in relation to the potential acquisition by Ram Power of all of the outstanding common shares of Sierra.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Bauer Tech completes risky task In one of its trickiest projects to date, Bauer Technologies has completed the installation of 20 piles on a 50-year-old jetty at the Milford Haven estuary in Wales, on the site of a new 2,000MW combined-cycle gas-turbine power station.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Bachy Soletanche undertakes indoor mini-piling project at Polar Park Bachy Soletanche has conducted a restricted mini-pile project on behalf of project managers MACE Plus inside an already constructed industrial unit at Polar Park, Hounslow, UK.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Low Carbon Building Programme closes after Govt cuts spending The Low Carbon Building Programme (LCBP) closed to all new applications in May, after the UK Government announced it is committed to delivering £6 billion of departmental spending cuts in 2010-11.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
US study probes geo heat pump deployment Bob Lawrence & Associates Inc and the California Geothermal Energy Collaborative are conducting a three-year study to ascertain what effects the nationwide deployment of geothermal heat pumps would have...	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Greenearth demo Proponents of Victoria’s planned first grid-connected demonstration of a conventional geothermal trial say they expect to plug the 12MW power supply into the state’s grid within two to three years.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Turkey en route More than 1,000 infrastructure projects are envisaged in Turkey from 2010-13, according to Imder, the Turkish Construction Equipment Distributor and Manufacturers’ Association.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Sewer project takes delivery of Liebherr LR1130 Following the delivery of its second Liebherr lattice-boom crawler crane, Melbourne-based, specialist, ‘dry hire’ crane-rental company Alfasi Hire has delivered the LR1130 for its first contract	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Bachy cleans up with KMI Water Specialist geotechnical contractor Bachy Soletanche is working with main contractor, KMI Water – a joint venture between Kier Construction, J Murphy and Sons and Interserve Project Services – on a project near Preston.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Zetica, Vinci and Lankelma link up in SiteSafeAlliance Zetica, Vinci Soil Engineering and Lankelma have formed SiteSafe Alliance (SSA), offering UK developers a single point of contact for the assessment and removal of the risk of unexploded ordnance (UXO) during building.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Geocooling in India GeoCooling Technology Private, an Indian subsidiary of GeoExchange Australia, itself an international distributor for Water Furnace systems, is planning to invest US$10 million in India.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Trevi scoops Italian jobs Trevi, the foundations engineering specialist, has signed a number of contracts, which, it said, are significant both in terms of the technology to be applied in the projects and the scale of the work involved, in the context of the Italian market.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Brazil world cup invest More than €36 billion has been set aside for the modernisation of stadiums and infrastructure in the 12 cities that are intended to host the 2014 World Cup matches in Brazil.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Major Drilling revenues up for Q4, but down over the year Major Drilling’s results for its fourth quarter of fiscal year 2010, ended April 30, show quarterly revenues of C$97 million; an increase of 47% from the C$66 million recorded over the same quarter of last year.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Major buys North Star Major Drilling Group International has purchased North Star Drilling.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Keller buys up Sydney-based Waterfront International ground-engineering specialist Keller Group has acquired privately-owned Waterfront Services, a Sydney-based near-shore marine foundation contractor, which trades as Waterway Constructions.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Qatar builds a bigger airport Qatar is building a brand new airport, called the New Doha International Airport, in response to a projected demand for additional international air-passenger capacity in the region.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Strata probes renewable energy opportunities A BOLTON, UK-based specialist construction company has been penetrating new markets after acquiring a drilling machine to tap into the renewable energy sector.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Aker Wirth machines secure Mosul Dam No fewer than 24 Aker Wirth universal drilling machines are currently in use for the ongoing maintenance of the Mosul Dam in the north of Iraq.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Junttan pushes forth with giant 26-bridge project in Finland Extensive reconstruction work of the Kallansillat bridges has been taking place to the north of the city of Kuopio in Finland.	Magazine Article	06 Sep 2010	0 Stars
Fugro in Sierra Leone African Minerals has awarded Fugro a contract for a site investigation related to the development of Freetown Port in Sierra Leone.	Magazine Article	05 Aug 2010	0 Stars
Sierra in alum geo find	Magazine Article	05 Aug 2010	0 Stars
Trevi Icos Corp scoops US$4.6m Harvard Art Museum work Trevi Icos Corp has been awarded a prestigious new contract in the US worth about US$4.6 million.	Magazine Article	05 Aug 2010	0 Stars
Schlumberger expands Schlumberger has acquired GeothermEx, a California-based global provider of geothermal consulting services.	Magazine Article	05 Aug 2010	0 Stars
Junttan Oy buys up ExcaDrill FINLAND-BASED Junttan Oy is buying ExcaDrill, PiloMac Oy’s rock-drilling equipment unit.	Magazine Article	05 Aug 2010	0 Stars
Quebec hard-rock bridging In Quebec, a Spanish-Canadian consortium is building the Nouvelle Autoroute 30 highway, bypassing Montreal at the south towards the A20 and A40 in the west.	Magazine Article	05 Aug 2010	0 Stars
Sonic rigs rescue Surrey school installation TR3 Geological Services won a tender to install a geothermal grid during the summer of 2009, under what would be Woodward Hill Elementary School’s brand new, all-weather soccer field in Surrey.	Magazine Article	05 Aug 2010	0 Stars
Innovation energises Sauerland pyramids The Sauerland pyramids in Lennestadt, Germany, situated on a mountain overlooking the town of Meggen, have undergone an innovative energy concept.	Magazine Article	05 Aug 2010	0 Stars
Aarsleff proves its worth Worthing Borough Council has been performing essential maintenance on the timber-framed landing stage surrounding the end of the West Sussex town’s 150-year-old Grade II-listed pier.	Magazine Article	05 Aug 2010	0 Stars
UK’s landmark job to pump warm groundwater from 1km-deep rock UK-BASED Drilcorp has been awarded a contract to install a 420m re-injection borehole at Weardale, County Durham, as part of a project to provide renewable, clean energy for homes.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
GEO in wind farm probe Centrica has contracted the Danish Geotechnical Institute (GEO) to perform site investigations for offshore wind farm Race Bank.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
SKM enviros relaunch SKM Enviros is the new name for the combined expertise and capabilities of the water and environment, health and safety teams in Europe of SKM and Enviros Consulting, an environmental, sustainability, health and safety consultancy.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
GECCO2 wins deal to heat Royal Opera House workshop UK-BASED GECCO2 has won a contract, worth about £150,000, to install a closed-loop ground-source heat pump system for the Royal Opera House production workshop in Purfleet, Essex.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
Schlumberger in IT buy Schlumberger has acquired IGEOSS, a developer of structural geology software.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
Greenearth support Greenearth Energy has received a total of A$32 million in government funding to support development of a pilot geothermal power plant in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
Sierra wins BC land bid Sierra Geothermal Power Corp was the successful bidder in the auction for Crown geothermal rights to an 8,079ha parcel of land in the Knight Inlet area of British Columbia.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
Glover-Hydrock JV wins A6 ground investigation contracts THE combined strengths of Glover Site Investigations and Hydrock proved a winning combination when a joint submission to Roads Service Northern Ireland won them two major ground investigation contracts.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
Major aquires SMD Major Drilling has entered the environmental drilling sector with the purchase of SMD Services of Huntsville, Alabama, US.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
Trevi takes stock Trevi has approved its preliminary financial statements for the 2009 financial year, showing a slight decline in total revenues to €1.035 billion compared to €1.069 billion in 2008.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
Kenya geothermal plan Kenya Electricity Generating Company has announced plans to develop further the geothermal resource at Olkaria, with an additional 280MW of geothermal power at a cost of US$1.3 billion by 2013.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
Site safety issues The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reports that 25% of construction sites in the Greater Manchester area failed safety tests.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
US defence R&D to target Earth’s properties to 5km As part of its budget for the upcoming fiscal year, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will launch a US$4 million project to determine the properties of the Earth down to 5km depth.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
Isoenergy helps Whitbread hotels go ‘green’ in heat-pump deal Renewable installer Isoenergy, based in Surrey, UK, has signed a deal with hospitality giant Whitbread to supply equipment to a new ‘green’ combined hotel and restaurant.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
Zetica finds 1,000lb UXB from Second World War A 1,000lb unexploded bomb (UXB) from the Second World War was located last month in Bowers Marsh, Essex, UK.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
Munich moves on massive traffic makeover THE Bavarian capital Munich is resolving a difficult traffic situation in the southwest of the city with an extensive tunnel construction project.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
Sonic rigs set the pace Drilling geothermal holes in under three hours,sonic rigs have set the pace.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
German trenchless pipe bore gives home a new waste link A GRUNDOBORE auger-boring unit from Tracto-Technik was recently used to install a new canal for a wastewater connection to a family home in Wildeshausen, Germany.	Magazine Article	16 Jun 2010	0 Stars
MEG reports nonferrous budgets down Metals Economics Group’s 2009 analysis shows that the planned, nonferrous exploration budgets of the 1,846 companies it covers totalled US$7.32 billion for the year – down from a record US$12.6 billion in 2008 and marking the largest one-year decline in the past two decades.	Magazine Article	15 Apr 2010	0 Stars
Sierra sinks second Alum deep observation well Sierra Geothermal Power Corp (SGP) has started drilling a second deep-observation well at its Alum project near the Nevada-California border in the US.	Magazine Article	15 Apr 2010	0 Stars
Major Drilling posts drop for third quarter Major Drilling posted third-quarter revenues of C$72.5 million, down 17% from the C$87.4 million recorded for the same quarter of last year.	Magazine Article	15 Apr 2010	0 Stars
Five Aker Wirth pile top drill rigs headed for Hong Kong Aker Wirth has been awarded a contract for the delivery of five pile top drill rigs of type 936/3000/300, with a contract value of about €3.8 million.	Magazine Article	15 Apr 2010	0 Stars
Essex bomb disposed of An unexploded 500kg WWII bomb (UXB) was discovered in March at Bowers Marsh in Essex, UK, by Zetica explosive ordnance-clearance operatives.	Magazine Article	15 Apr 2010	0 Stars
Bauer drills down in Angolan capital Since the end of the civil war in 2002, and thanks also to the country’s vast mineral resources, reconstruction has been in full swing in Angola, a former Portuguese colony in southwest Africa.	Magazine Article	15 Apr 2010	0 Stars
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.	Magazine Article	16 Feb 2010	0 Stars
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.	Magazine Article	16 Feb 2010	0 Stars
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.	Magazine Article	16 Feb 2010	0 Stars
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.	Headline Article	16 Feb 2010	0 Stars
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.	Magazine Article	16 Feb 2010	0 Stars
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.	Magazine Article	16 Feb 2010	0 Stars
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.	Magazine Article	16 Feb 2010	0 Stars
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.	Magazine Article	16 Feb 2010	0 Stars
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.	Magazine Article	16 Feb 2010	0 Stars
Atlas Copco agrees to buy Quincy Compressors ATLAS Copco has agreed to acquire Quincy Compressor from EnPro Industries for approximately US$190 million.	Magazine Article	16 Feb 2010	0 Stars
Schlumberger finishes phase II hydro tests SCHLUMBERGER has completed a Phase II hydrogeologic characterisation programme for E&B Natural Resources at Antelope Hills Field in California.	Magazine Article	16 Feb 2010	0 Stars
Ground-source warms up care home A CARE home for the elderly that was commissioned by the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution (RMBI) at Cramlington, Northumberland, UK, has benefited from a ground-source energy system.	Magazine Article	16 Feb 2010	0 Stars
Stump uses Atlas Copco tool for German lock ground anchoring GERMAN foundations specialist Stump Spezialtiefbau is using an Atlas Copco XRVS 476 compressor to bore 45 26m-deep holes on a project to strengthen Guttenbach Lock on the River Neckar.	Magazine Article	16 Feb 2010	0 Stars
GeoDrilling 2010 postponement It is with regret that we have to advise you of the postponement of the GeoDrilling Show for this year. The event has enjoyed a great run since its inception back in 2005 but with just four weeks to go, it become increasingly apparent that current market conditions, which although improving, were making commitment to the show very difficult for some organisations.	Headline Article	16 Feb 2010	0 Stars
Idaho energy drill Geologists plan to drill a pair of mile-deep holes in southern Idaho in a hunt for geothermal fields that could be tapped to produce energy	Magazine Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Geothermal germany The installation of systems to warm up buildings and generate electricity using energy from beneath the Earth’s surface is set to expand more quickly in Germany than other carbon-free energy sources, according to a Deutsche Bank report	Magazine Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Testconsult records displacement data for flyover project near Southampton UK-based Testconsult has been involved in a contract to replace bridge bearings beneath live loads at the Redbridge Flyover on the A34, close to Southampton Docks	Magazine Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
GrundoBurst for sanasa Sanasa, the water authority for Brazilian city Campinas, will be using a Grundoburst 400 G3 in a large-scale pipebursting exercise to renew damaged drinking-water pipelines	Magazine Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Nevada Geo wins grant The US Treasury Department has approved a grant of US$57.9 million for Nevada Geothermal Power’s Blue Mountain Geo – Faulkner 1 geothermal power plant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009	Magazine Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Land-Drill investigates Scottish eco-centre site Land-Drill has been involved in the construction of an innovative new eco-centre being built by West Lothian Council at Beecraigs Country Park, just outside Linlithgow in Scotland	Magazine Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Lankelma UK11 rig in Antarctica trip to test polar snow Lankelma has designed and constructed UK11, a cone-penetration testing rig that can be attached to a tractor’s rear three-point linkage	Magazine Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Sierra starts Alum exploration drill Sierra Geothermal Power (SGP) has started drilling a production-assessment observation well at the Alum project, near the Nevada-California border in Esmeralda County, Nevada	Magazine Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Major Drilling eyes recovery as revenue climbs Major Drilling Group International Inc has reported results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2010 ended October 31, 2009, posting quarterly revenue of C$75.5 million, down 60% from the C$191 million recorded for the same quarter last year, but up C$13 million, or 21%, from the first quarter of fiscal 2010	Magazine Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
BGS boasts a ‘worldfirst’ with UK map service The British Geological Survey’s (BGS’s) Open­Geoscience is a new web service that provides free geological maps for the whole of Great Britain, images from its extensive collection of photographs and a wide range of other digital information	Magazine Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
SGL installs piling for East India section of DLR 3-Car project Systems Geotechnique (SGL) has finished installing 82No 340/300mm-diameter piles at East India Dockland Light Railway (DLR) station in London for Taylor Woodrow, as part of the DLR 3-Car Enlargement Project	Magazine Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Carpenter Drilling and Nicholson awarded US Energy jet-injection test programme CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CH2M HILL) has awarded Carpenter Drilling and Nicholson, the North American business unit of Soletanche Bachy Group, a construction subcontract worth US$330,000 for a jet-injection test programme at the US Department of Energy’s 100N Area on the Hanford Site in Richland, Washington	Magazine Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
BBGE proves it is worth its salt in Ireland Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering (BBGE) has completed its first contract in Ireland since aligning its divisional businesses in the country two months ago	Magazine Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Zebra earns its stripes on St Johns River US-based Zebra Environmental has completed a series of direct sensing and sampling events from a river-barge platform on St Johns River in northeast Florida	Magazine Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Bachy embarks on four-week remediation project Bachy Soletanche is working on a fast-track, four-week project at Nab Scar near Grasmere in the UK’s Lake District, conducting remedial work on a 40° cliff face	Magazine Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
TAG uses specially modified drill for 56m-deep piles in Hanoi FOUNDATION specialist Thien An Group (TAG) of Vietnam is using a newly-delivered Liebherr LB 28 rotary-drilling rig for the excavation of 56m-deep piles on a commercial building being constructed in the centre of Hanoi.	Headline Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Trevi reports revenues up and rise in profitability Gruppo Trevi’s interim results to September 30, 2009, reveal growth in revenues and an increase in profitability, particularly at the level of net profit, despite an unfavourable global macro-economic climate	Magazine Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Keller agrees Resource Holdings buyout Keller Group, the international ground-engineering specialist, has entered into an agreement to purchase Resource Holdings, a Singapore-based foundation contractor	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Sirius tools up the Tyne’s new crossing The Sirius Group has employed a range of engineering services to assist at one of Britain’s biggest transport infrastructure projects: the construction of the new Tyne Crossing – the second vehicle tunnel under Newcastle’s River Tyne	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2009	0 Stars
South Korea opens its longest sea crossing South Korea’s US$1.4 billion Incheon Bridge was officially opened on October 16 – four years and four months after construction began	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Redruth is the scene of Geothermal hot-rock innovation Geothermal Engineering has outlined plans to pioneer hot-rock energy in the UK	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Chile offers ‘large, untapped potential for geothermal’ Chile’s energy minister, Marcelo Tokman, has been reported as saying the country has “a large, untapped potential for geothermal energy, which can be an energy source of enormous importance in the future”	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2009	0 Stars
ABI boosts hire fleet with Diemag RH28 The new Delmag RH28 model of drilling rig has been added to ABI Equipment’s hire fleet in the UK, with Carillion Piling the first piling contractor in the country to use them at a site in Scotland.	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Speaker boost for show Further top-quality speakers have confirmed their participation in the conference programme for GeoDrilling 2010, to be held next year at the East of England Showground in Peterborough, UK, on April 13-14.	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Lankelma rail job Deployment of UK15, Lankelma’s track truck, to Medge Hall provided soil investigation and data to help consulting engineers move nearer to completing their designs for a major line improvement near Doncaster.	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2009	0 Stars
DSI SA subject to cartel activity probe in mining-bolt market	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Industrea china gain Australia-based Industrea has expanded its Chinese customer base with a A$3.1m gas-drainage contract for delivery of an Advanced Mining Technologies (AMT) directional drilling and methane-gas drainage system to Zhulinshan Coal Mine in Shanxi Province.	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Aarsleff branches out Aarsleff is expanding its operations by diversifying into the restoration and renovation of sewerage, storm and wastewater pipelines with the establishment of a separate division called Aarsleff Pipe Technologies	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Sierra wins US$10m grants from the DOE Sierra Geothermal Power (SGP) has been awarded two grants totalling US$10 million by the US Department of Energy (DOE)	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Højgaard team gains good results with Geoprobe 540MT The mining division of Danish contractor MT Højgaard equipped a field team at Malmbjerget in Greenland with a Geoprobe 540MT to carry out field investigations and geotechnical surveys	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Tough rock to crack at Rosyth Dock A tender-winning design recently sent Bachy Soletanche to the large-scale Rosyth Dock expansion project to install a piled retaining wall as part of the entrance extension.	Magazine Article	21 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Test-pile gains for Aarsleff in sludge-treatment project Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water is building two sewage sludge-treatment centres, which will use an advanced anaerobic digestion process to maximise biogas production and generate ‘green’ electricity, significantly reducing Welsh Water’s carbon footprint.	Headline Article	21 Dec 2009	0 Stars
Sonic demonstration SonicSampDrill is planning more demonstration days at Giesbeek, The Netherlands, on October 30 and November 27	Magazine Article	21 Oct 2009	0 Stars
Zetica identifies fault UK-based Zetica has undertaken a geophysical survey to determine the location of a suspected fault at a proposed development site in Oxfordshire	Magazine Article	21 Oct 2009	0 Stars
Gardline in Gulf CPTs Gardline Lankelma has carried out cone penetration tests (CPTs) at one of the new major ports being developed in the Gulf region	Magazine Article	21 Oct 2009	0 Stars
Exploration down Preliminary estimates from the Metals Economics Group (MEG)indicate that 2009 exploration budgets will reach roughly US$8.4 billion for expenditures related to precious and base metals, diamonds, uranium and some industrial minerals	Magazine Article	21 Oct 2009	0 Stars
Forasol delivers rig for Swiss heat system Swiss-based drilling group Forasol recently participated in the installation of a 750kW closed-loop, geothermal heat-pump system to provide primary heating and cooling to a commercial and retail centre in suburban Geneva, Switzerland	Magazine Article	21 Oct 2009	0 Stars
Record horizontal holes in Turkey Two Sandvik ‘tophammer’ drills recently completed record horizontal anchor holes on an elevated highway project in Turkey using techniques usually associated with DTH rigs, according to Sandvik	Magazine Article	21 Oct 2009	0 Stars
OFT imposes fines for bid-rigging The UK’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has imposed fines totalling £129.5 million on 103 construction firms in England, which it found had colluded with competitors on building contracts	Magazine Article	21 Oct 2009	0 Stars
Bauer completes CFA foundation piling for Pembroke power station Works to install 2,250 continuous flight auger (CFA) foundation piles for a new, 2,000MW combined-cycle, gas-turbine power station near Pembroke has been completed by Bauer Technologies Ltd, for Alstom on behalf of RWE npower	Magazine Article	21 Oct 2009	0 Stars
Survey aids iicorr’s probe into offshore platform caissons Integrity, inspection and corrosion specialist iicorr has completed a study into the cause and effects of integrity problems with caissons on offshore platforms	Magazine Article	21 Oct 2009	0 Stars
Oregon hot spring drill US Geothermal has started development drilling at the Neal Hot Springs Geothermal Project in eastern Oregon.	Magazine Article	21 Oct 2009	0 Stars
Near 600 delegates registered to date Just under 600 delegates have registered to attend GeoDrilling 2010, which will be held next year at the East of England Showground in Peterborough, UK, on April 13-14.	Headline Article	21 Oct 2009	0 Stars
Ex-Alfred McAlpine Slate fraudsters jailed Three former senior executives of Alfred McAlpine Slate Ltd (Welsh Slate) have received jail sentences, after admitting they deliberately overstated the company’s production and sales figures for some years.	Headline Article	21 Oct 2009	0 Stars
Balfour Beatty announces Parsons Brinckerhoff buy Balfour Beatty has announced that it is to acquire Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) for US$626 million (£380 million), subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions.	Headline Article	21 Oct 2009	0 Stars
E-Z Drill supplies tailor-made tool for M25 widening project Specialist US drill-rig manufacturer E-Z Drill Inc, together with its sole European concessionaire, Castellan Group, based in Milton Keynes, has taken two weeks to design, build and deliver a tailor-made drill for use on a major M25 motorway-widening project in the UK.	Headline Article	21 Oct 2009	0 Stars
Capital in Mozambique Capital Drilling has commenced operations in Mozambique at two projects in Tete Province.	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Grundopit solves Italian job Two villas alongside each other on a hillside in Rovereto, close to Trient in Italy, were overcome with sewage problems in the very snowy winter of 2008 due to rising groundwater levels	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Top-quality speakers line up for April’s conference The conference programme at GeoDrilling 2010 is shaping up with a number of top-quality speakers confirmed for the event, which will be held again at the East of England Showground in Peterborough on April 13-14	Headline Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Ausdrill and Brandrill announce proposed merger Ausdrill and Brandrill have announced the proposed merger of their businesses, under which Ausdrill will issue shares to Brandrill shareholders in exchange for all Brandrill shares	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
ENER-G brings Scots green innovation An innovative renewable-energy project by Scottish Borders Council will create enough green electricity to power over 1,000 homes, while cutting carbon emissions by the equivalent of about 30,000t/y	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Major Drilling posts 64% lower quarterly revenues Major Drilling Group International’s results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2010 (ended July 31, 2009) show cashflow generated from operations of C$7.6 million	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
BBGE and URS pilot innovative soil clean-up solution	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
BBGE and URS pilot innovative soil clean-up solution Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering (BBGE) and engineering and environmental consultant URS Corporation have started testing an innovative technique to clean up an area of highly contaminated soil in Shawfield, part of the Clyde Gateway regeneration area in the East End of Glasgow and South Lanarkshire	Headline Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Stabilising a steep, unstable slope at Tintern Following a significant landslide at Barbadoes Woods in the Wye Valley above Tintern, a major ground-stabilisation project has been completed for Forestry Commission Wales	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Novel Nashville project for Jones & Stone US-based Jones & Stone has assisted in a Nashville high-rise project – a multi-purpose building with a parking garage beneath it, touted to be the widest in Tennessee	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Trevi benefits from “significant investment policy” Trevi Group’s results for the six months to June 30 show that the value of production in the first half of this year was €633 million, compared with €543 million in the first half of 2008 – an increase of 16%	Headline Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Sierra powers on Sierra Geothermal Power Corp ended the second quarter of 2009 with C$2.9 million of working capital.	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
RSK and STATS integrate The RSK and STATS names are to be integrated, and current STATS business operations relocated from St Albans to Hemel Hempstead, UK. STATS has been a member of RSK Group for over 18 months	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Malmberg tests Sweden-based Malmberg has begun test drilling to secure the water supply for the Municipality of Kristianstad	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Terex to pay civil penalty of US$8m Terex Corporation has had its agreement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved by the Commission	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Bauer hat-trick of projects for power station, dyke and bridges Bauer Fondations Spéciales Eurl has been awarded the execution of bored piles for bridges on Algeria’s East-West Highway project between the city of Setif and the Tunisian border by the Consortium Japonais pour l’Autoroute Algérienne, a joint venture of several Japanese construction companies	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Nicholson pushes on at Canton Lake Nicholson is making steady progress on the Canton Lake Dam auxiliary spillway-channel excavation project in Canton, Oklahoma	Headline Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Local firm adds six lanes to busy A3 in Germany In Germany, the A3 Frankfurt-Nuremberg motorway will be extended to six lanes from the Hösbach junction to the Kauppen bridge	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Lankelma CPT project Lankelma mobilised a 30t CPT rig, equipped with an enhanced access penetration system, from its Houston office to the Hanford Nuclear Facility in eastern Washington state in late May	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
IADC’s wind farm fears The International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) has provided comments to the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers’ response to the European Commission’s communications on offshore wind energy and maritime spatial planning	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
GECCO2 trent project GECCO2 has secured a heating and cooling project at Nottingham Trent University – the UK’s most environmentally friendly university in the ‘People & Planet Green League’, published by the Times Higher Education supplement	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Liebherr benefits from dynamic construction The deterioration in overall trading conditions became more evident for Liebherr Group, especially as last year drew to a close, the company has reported	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Land-Drill unclogs Glasgow stretch The stretch of the M80 between Castlecary and Bishopbriggs has long been one of the more clogged up arteries streaming into the heart of Glasgow, and Land-Drill Geotechnics has been playing its part in getting the traffic flowing more smoothly into the city with some technically demanding installations along the thoroughfare	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Keller profits down 3% International ground-engineering specialist Keller Group’s interim results for the six months ended June 30 show revenue down 3% to £552 million (2008: £568 million)	Magazine Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Recycled drill casing supports Scottish wind turbines The success of the UK’s first onshore wind turbines, supported on tubular-steel piled foundations, has been a key factor in the use of the same type of piles for some of the turbines on a new 40MW wind farm near Inverness, Scotland	Headline Article	30 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Tunnel to save Thames takes first step The Thames Tunnel, a 20-mile sewer dug deep beneath London to significantly reduce the level of sewage entering the river, has moved a step closer to becoming a reality.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
Casagrande buys up HD Engineering HD Engineering, the last remaining non-core business in the Charter group of companies, has been sold to Italy’s Casagrande.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
Major Q4 results down Major Drilling has reported results for its fourth quarter of fiscal year 2009, ended April 30.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
ICE work for Lankelma Lankelma is sponsoring and collaborating with Adrian McCallum, a former colonel in the Australian Navy and now a PhD student at Cambridge University’s Scott Polar Research Institute.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
DNV reaches milestone DNV says a new milestone has been reached in offshore drilling with the first circular rig prepared for drilling at a water depth of almost 4,200m named at Cosco Shipyard Group’s Qidong Shipyard in Shanghai on June 28.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
Summerland rises again The Summerland Kempinski Hotel and Resort is being built at the location of the original Summerland Hotel on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Beirut, Lebanon.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
Cirrus Energi formed Cirrus Energi has been formed as a subsidiary of UK ground-source heat-pump supplier and installer Geothermal International.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
Soilmec opens in Brazil Soilmec’s latest branch in Brazil has been created with a headquarters in San Paolo. At the new plant, Soilmec Brazil will manufacture the most common rigs for the local market.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
Grouted 22m piles secure base for new 60m mast A 60m wind monitoring mast was recently erected at Ferrybridge, Doncaster, by specialist tower erection company, FLI Structures. To ensure that the mast was secured at its base, Albion Drilling undertook the installation of 22m long grouted piles to which main contractor FLI could then bolt its steel interface frame.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
Over 1Mt of rock blasted in road improvement scheme Albion Drilling Group recently completed the blasting of over 330,000m3 of rock, 10,000m2 of pre-split and 2,750m of stitch drilling during phase two of the A1/N1 Newry Bypass road improvement scheme.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
Awards announced for GeoDrilling 2010 At GeoDrilling 2010, industry awards will be launched for the first time. The event will be held once again at the East of England Showground in Peterborough on April 13-14.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
University Geo Heating Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, is drilling wells to create geothermal energy to heat and cool about 50 buildings. Nearly 4,000 wells will be dug of 5in in diameter and 400ft deep.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
Archer JV joins Trevi for Louisiana levee works Archer Western/Alberici JV, in alliance with Trevi Icos, has been awarded an ‘early contractor involvement’ contract for pre-construction services and construction options for levee improvements to the New Orleans East Back Levee, Reach LPV 111, in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, US.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
Hydrock wins nuclear power station contract UK-based Hydrock has been awarded the preliminary ground investigation contract by E.ON for a proposed nuclear power station at Oldbury, Gloucestershire.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
Boart sheds some African ops Boart Longyear has sold some of its sub-Saharan African operations to Tranter Energy and Mining Services (Pty) Ltd, a subsidiary of Tranter Holdings.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
Second Tyne Tunnel on its way The £38 million diaphragm-walling package for the tunnel portals of the Second Tyne Tunnel is nearing completion thanks to leading geotechnical specialist Bachy Soletanche.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
Sierra gains 'no significant impact' ruling Sierra Geothermal Power Corp (SGP) has received an environmental-assessment decision with a finding of no significant impact from the US Bureau of Land Management for its Alum geothermal-power project in Nevada.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
Pennsylvania probes gas leak Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection is investigating a methane leak that may have bubbled into two streams near a natural gas drilling site in Lycoming County.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
Lankelma cone-penetration tests at Great Yarmouth Lankelma recently carried out cone-penetration testing at the outer harbour in Great Yarmouth, UK, which is currently under construction by a Van Oord/BAM Nuttall joint venture.	Magazine Article	21 Aug 2009	0 Stars
CPA seeks more detail on HESS The Construction Products Association (CPA) has welcomed the UK government’s latest consultation on its Heat and Energy Saving Strategy (HESS), but has called for more detail on the finance and delivery mechanisms. The strategy aims to upgrade every building in the UK by 2030.	Magazine Article	17 Jun 2009	0 Stars
Bauer piles into Pembroke Bauer Technologies Ltd has won a contract to install a total of 2,250 continuous flight auger (CFA) foundation piles, of 600mm in diameter, for power-generation company Alstom, to support a new, 2,000MW, combined-cycle, gas-turbine power station near Pembroke for RWE npower.	Magazine Article	17 Jun 2009	0 Stars
Vibro saves client over £1m with band drains Vibro Projects Ltd recently came up with a money-saving scheme on the Waste Transfer Station project at Preston Docks, UK.	Magazine Article	17 Jun 2009	0 Stars
Western Lithium testing Western Lithium Canada Corporation is drilling several core holes at its Kings Valley, Nevada, lithium property using sonic drilling to test the technology as it prepares for 2009’s drilling.	Magazine Article	17 Jun 2009	0 Stars
Land-Drill digs on Ascension Island for turbine project Scotland-based Land-Drill has been involved in the construction of five wind turbines for the BBC on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.	Magazine Article	17 Jun 2009	0 Stars
Major Drilling finds the times hard-going Major Drilling says that, as expected, the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 (ending March 31) proved difficult as the current economic environment impacted drilling worldwide, particularly base-metal projects.	Magazine Article	17 Jun 2009	0 Stars
Per Aarsleff pools resources to put stadium to bed early Danish civil-engineering contractor Per Aarsleff and its European subsidiaries have pooled their expertise and resources to complete a mega precast, concrete piling contract in Poland’s capital, Warsaw, for a new national stadium being built for the 2012 European football championships.	Magazine Article	17 Jun 2009	0 Stars
Innovative eco heating for luxury flats Residents of a new, luxury apartment building in London are among the first high-end beneficiaries of a district heating scheme providing efficient energy using a central heating plant that serves all 25 of the apartments.	Magazine Article	17 Jun 2009	0 Stars
Trevi first-quarter revenues up Trevi’s interim operating report, for the first quarter to March 31, shows total revenues of €289 million (up 23% quarter-on-quarter) and an order portfolio worth €900 million (down from a record €1.1 billion in 2008).	Magazine Article	17 Jun 2009	0 Stars
Gecco2 wins pool work Gecco2 has won the contract to design and build a closed-loop, ground-source heat-pump system for the newly-named Rebecca Adlington Swimming Centre in Mansfield Woodhouse, UK.	Magazine Article	17 Jun 2009	0 Stars
Secret blacklisting The UK Government plans new regulations to prevent the secret blacklisting of workers by construction companies.	Magazine Article	17 Jun 2009	0 Stars
Bauer in jordan link Bauer Aktiengesellschaft has come to an agreement with the general owner of Site Group for Services and Well Drilling Ltd, Rami Wahdan Oweis, to acquire 60% of Site Group’s shares.	Magazine Article	17 Jun 2009	0 Stars
Albion wind farm win Drilling and blasting specialist Albion Drilling Group has won a contract at Scottish Power’s new wind farm at Arecleoch, Ayrshire.	Magazine Article	17 Jun 2009	0 Stars
Wraps come off GeoDrilling 2010 The wraps have come off the next GeoDrilling show, which will be staged once again at the East of England Showground in Peterborough on April 13-14, 2010.	Headline Article	17 Jun 2009	0 Stars
Hydrock achieves first aim of remediation project UK-based Hydrock says it has achieved the first major objective of a significant groundwater-remediation project for the Environment Agency ahead of schedule and on budget, in spite of unexpected additional requirements.	Magazine Article	21 May 2009	0 Stars
US Stimulus to geothermal Schramm Inc says the US’ 2009 Economic Stimulus Bill provides incentives for both geothermal heat-pump installations and for drilling contractors who purchase equipment.	Magazine Article	21 May 2009	0 Stars
Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings hit with corporate manslaughter charge In the first application of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, the Crown Prosecution Service has authorised a charge of corporate manslaughter against Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings Ltd in relation to the death of Alexander Wright on September 5, 2008.	Magazine Article	21 May 2009	0 Stars
Atlas Copco acquires full ownership in India Atlas Copco has exercised an option to buy the remaining 75% of shares in Focus Rocbit and Prisma Roctools, which provide complementary products and services for rotary and down-the-hole (DTH) drilling.	Magazine Article	21 May 2009	0 Stars
ACE Scottish meltdown warning Association for Consultancy and Engineering, ACE, construction industry, meltdown, Scottish Futures Trust, Jim Tod, Scottish Building Federation	Magazine Article	21 May 2009	0 Stars
GPR work sheds light on Cumbrian tunnel SM Pelorus, a division of Doncaster, UK-based Soil Mechanics, has completed ground-penetration radar (GPR) work, valued at £10,000, to analyse the buried structure of Thirlmere Aqueduct, Cumbria, the 84 mile-long Victorian water pipe connecting the Lake District to Manchester.	Magazine Article	21 May 2009	0 Stars
AuScope offers the ultimate virtual core-research library The AuScope National Virtual Core Library (NVCL) is a research network that will offer users a detailed and high-resolution portrait of the composition and mineralogy of the top 2km of the Australian continent.	Magazine Article	21 May 2009	0 Stars
Bachy relaunches business arm in Yorkshire Bachy Soletanche Ltd celebrated the relaunch of its anchor, grouting and mini-pile business division with an official opening of its new office in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK, on April 2.	Magazine Article	21 May 2009	0 Stars
Bullivant job losses UK geotechnical contractor Roger Bullivant has announced it is to cut a further 95 jobs and that all staff are to be asked to take a 10% pay cut, after reassessing the poor state of the housebuilding market.	Magazine Article	21 May 2009	0 Stars
Lankelma acquires ARA Lankelma has acquired the ARA geotechnical and environmental site investigation services branch in Houston, Texas.	Magazine Article	21 May 2009	0 Stars
Cuts at drill bits firms An east Belfast, Northern Ireland, company that makes drill bits for the oil and gas industry is to make up to 90 staff redundant.	Magazine Article	21 May 2009	0 Stars
Lift for May gurney May Gurney Integrated Services has reported on trading for the year ended March 31, 2009.	Magazine Article	21 May 2009	0 Stars
DMT wins hydro work Germany-based DMT GmbH has been commissioned to carry out a geodetic survey, required for a feasibility study, and to deliver surveying equipment for a new hydroelectric plant.	Magazine Article	21 May 2009	0 Stars
DEFEO rejects bonus According to Securities and Exchange Commission filings, Terex chairman and CEO Ronald DeFeo rejected a US$1.17 million bonus he was eligible for, and reduced his salary by 10% as the company trims its workforce and reduces overall costs.	Magazine Article	21 May 2009	0 Stars
Bachy drives through A34 viaduct replacement The high traffic viaduct of the A34 Oxford Western bypass is on the road to recovery with the aid of Bachy Soletanche Ltd. The geotechnical specialist is conducting a staggered staged bearing pile contract for main contractor Costain as part of the A34 Wolvercote viaduct replacement scheme near Oxford, which will take place while keeping the route open to traffic.	Magazine Article	20 Apr 2009	0 Stars
Bauer, Abu Dhabi, wins landmark job Bauer International in Abu Dhabi, a branch of Bauer Spezialtiefbau GmbH, Germany, has been awarded the advanced works and enabling works for a landmark project in the country.	Magazine Article	20 Apr 2009	0 Stars
Stronger flood defences on the River Trent A-Plant Acrow has helped Birse Civils, part of the Balfour Beatty Group, to carry out piling work for the UK’s Environment Agency to strengthen flood defences at the Lincolnshire town of Gainsborough on the River Trent.	Magazine Article	20 Apr 2009	0 Stars
Trevi ‘serene’ about performance in 2009 Trevi’s accounts for 2008 reveal total revenues of €1,069 million compared to €841 million in 2007, an increase of 27%, and net profit up 33% at €74 million.	Magazine Article	20 Apr 2009	0 Stars
ICO seizes covert database of construction industry workers An investigation by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has uncovered a database containing details of 3,213 construction workers, which was used by over 40 construction companies to vet individuals for employment.	Magazine Article	20 Apr 2009	0 Stars
CL Voelcker created from business division merger UK-based consultancy CL Associates has merged with Voelcker Consultants under the new name of CL Voelcker in a move designed to consolidate the consultancy offering of Environmental Scientifics Group (ESG), its parent company, into one business division.	Magazine Article	20 Apr 2009	0 Stars
Foundation of learning Installation of continuous flight auger piles with geothermal pipes has been carried out at the Hauser Forum in Cambridge, UK. A total of 150 no. 600mm diameter CFA piles, up to 25m long, with twin (four-pipe) 32mm geothermal pipes were installed, designed to supply up to 117kW of cooling and 188kW of heating.	Magazine Article	20 Apr 2009	0 Stars
Vibro ground improvement job Vibro Projects is utilising a rare form of ground improvement for a lorry park site at a Tesco dis­tribution depot in Severnsidenear Bristol, UK.	Magazine Article	20 Apr 2009	0 Stars
Bauer joins Panama Canal expansion team Through its Panamanian subsidiary Bauer Fundaciones Panama SA, Bauer Spezialtiefbau GmbH of Germany is participating in the Panama Canal expansion project.	Magazine Article	20 Apr 2009	0 Stars
Major Drilling in ‘excellent position’ Major Drilling in ‘excellent position’ Major Drilling posted quarterly revenue of C$87.4 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2009, ended January 31, down 27% from the C$120 million recorded for the same quarter last year.	Magazine Article	20 Apr 2009	0 Stars
Gardline undertakes African geotechnical job for Foxtrot Foxtrot International has appointed Gardline Geosciences to undertake its latest geotechnical project off the shore of Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa.	Magazine Article	20 Apr 2009	0 Stars
From waste to electricity Bauer Spezialtiefbau GmbH of Schrobenhausen, Germany, has carried out the deep excavation and foundation construction works for the Newhaven Waste Incineration Plant, which is being developed by waste management company Veolia Environmental Services.	Magazine Article	20 Apr 2009	0 Stars
Reverse circulation proves to be forward-thinking The job was never going to be easy, comprising 295 piles of approximately 600mm diameter, most 14° off vertical to an average depth of around 17.5m, in testing ground conditions and the majority 5m from an existing building.	Headline Article	20 Apr 2009	0 Stars
To boldly go… RSI drilling, a customer of Sonic­Sampling & Supply, drilled over 130 boreholes and installed 1in and 2in pre-pack wells in them in December at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2009	0 Stars
Recession-hit construction sector offered free ‘green energy’ advice service A LEADING global renewable energy specialist is launching a new free advice service for the recession-hit construction sector, explaining how going green can slash energy bills.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2009	0 Stars
Rhine flood drill job A MidSonic drill rig drilled 118 holes in October and November 2008 in Speyer, Germany, where floods threaten the city.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2009	0 Stars
Albion Drilling Group promotes full UK coverage with new acquisitions ALBION Drilling Ltd has acquired Midlands, UK-based Hormell Engineering Ltd and WT Specialist Contracts Ltd in Sussex. Eamond Murray, the present managing director, established Albion Drilling, based in Stirling, in 1986.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2009	0 Stars
Uskudar underground station taking shape for Istanbul’s Marmary Project STRUCTURAL reinforcement work is being carried out at the Uskudar underground station of the new tunnel linking Asia and Europe under the Marmara Sea in Istanbul.	Headline Article	11 Mar 2009	0 Stars
UK report primes heat pumps to reduce carbon emissions THE UK’s Ground Source Heat Pump Association (GSHPA) has welcomed publication of a government heat- and energy-saving strategy consultation which sets out a framework for reducing emissions from existing buildings.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2009	0 Stars
Worcester Bosch donates pair of heat pumps to Plymouth school BOILER manufacturer Worcester, part of the Bosch Group, has donated two Greenstore ground-source heat pumps to Coombe Dean Secondary School in Plymouth to help improve the energy efficiency of a new teaching block.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2009	0 Stars
New caa heli guide out The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has issued a new sixth edition of CAP 437 Offshore Helicopter Landing Areas – Guidance on Standards.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2009	0 Stars
Hospital’s heat JOB The new dialysis wing at Birming­ham’s Heartlands Hospital has received an environmentally-friendly heat-source system courtesy of Hydrock’s design and construct work.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2009	0 Stars
Bauer bonds with Brasfond to market deep-level rigs in Brazil CONSTRUCTION and equipment manufacturing group Bauer AG and the Brazilian Brasfond Group have entered into a joint venture to market TBA 200 deep-level drilling rigs in Brazil.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2009	0 Stars
EUwork time progress The European Parliament (EP) voted in December in plenary on the second reading of the proposed new EU Working Time Directive.	Magazine Article	11 Mar 2009	0 Stars
Unique new system works in Stockholm The foundation work for a new railway bridge in Stockholm, Sweden is under way using a unique new drilling system. After testing several alternatives, the contractors settled on a system that is both effective and minimises environmental impact.	Headline Article	18 Feb 2009	0 Stars
Rosengren reports Atlas Copco prepared Björn Rosengren, business area president, Construction and Mining Technique, Atlas Copco, is confident that the Sweden-headquartered company is well prepared to adapt to changes in demand caused by the global financial crisis.	Magazine Article	18 Feb 2009	0 Stars
Olympics casts a cloud A law firm says the cash crisis gripping the 2012 London Olympics project, combined with tough market conditions, could result in crippling disputes in the construction sector.	Magazine Article	18 Feb 2009	0 Stars
Regulation confusion he Council of European Producers of Materials for Construction, the European Association of National Builders’ Merchants Associates, the Architects’ Council of Europe and the European Construction Industry Federation are all worried that a proposal by the European Commission for a new Construction Products Regulation,	Magazine Article	18 Feb 2009	0 Stars
Raeburn completes site works UK-based Raeburn Drilling and Geotechnical Ltd has completed site works, testing and reporting for a major infrastructure project in Dunoon, Argyll, for Scottish Water.	Magazine Article	18 Feb 2009	0 Stars
Major drilling on high Major Drilling Group International Inc has reported its results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2009, ending October 31, 2008, which showed the company posted the highest quarterly revenue in its history at C$191 million – up 22% from the C$156 million recorded for the same quarter of last year.	Magazine Article	18 Feb 2009	0 Stars
Ritchies gets award for Clunie Dam work The Clunie Dam post-tensioning contract undertaken by BAM Ritchies for client Scottish and Southern Energy has been awarded a Saltire Society/Institution of Civil Engineering Construction Commendation Award.	Magazine Article	18 Feb 2009	0 Stars
Ritchies finishes four-year nuclear waste programme A ground-breaking project, leading to the recovery of nuclear waste from a shaft beneath former Scottish nuclear facility Dounreay, has been successfully completed following the production of the final report, which has been submitted to client Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL).	Magazine Article	18 Feb 2009	0 Stars
UKTI sees opportunities in Brazil and Mexico UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is advising British construction firms seeking opportunities away from the slowing domestic market to look to Brazil and Mexico where the authorities are planning infrastructure projects worth almost £300 billion (US$450 billion) in coming years.UKTI has launched two reports highlighting opportunities in these countries.	Magazine Article	18 Feb 2009	0 Stars
Eden to sell some CBM assets Australia-based Eden Energy has entered into a conditional contract to sell a portion of its Welsh coal-bed methane (CBM) and abandoned-mine methane (AMM) assets for A$5.6 million (US$4 million) to a large, publicly-listed, UK energy utility which, under the terms of the transaction, did not wish to be named publicly.	Magazine Article	18 Feb 2009	0 Stars
Hydrock’s Combe Down project ploughs ahead Hydrock’s Combe Down Stone Mines stabilisation project in Bath, UK, has entered its final stages. The project – supporting and backfilling the abandoned, overworked underground stone mines – is the largest of its kind in the UK.	Magazine Article	18 Feb 2009	0 Stars
Liebherr gets drilling for Duerr A Liebherr LB 24 rotary drilling rig with kelly-drilling application has been at work in Stuttgart for client Duerr.	Magazine Article	18 Feb 2009	0 Stars
CPA welcomes projects The Construction Products Association has welcomed the announcement by the UK’s Chancellor that he will bring forward capital construction projects to help offset the impact of the recession.	Magazine Article	17 Dec 2008	0 Stars
AEM expects 8.6% slide The construction-equipment manufacturing industry expects business declines of 8.6% to continue in the US through year-end 2008.	Magazine Article	17 Dec 2008	0 Stars
CECE president calls for EC to step in to save manufacturing jobs The Committee for European Construction Equipment (CECE) president Dr Tim Leverton has called for urgent action from the European Commission to save manufacturing jobs in Europe.	Magazine Article	17 Dec 2008	0 Stars
German Engineering Federation anticipates slump in orders After six years in a row of growth, the German construction equipment and building-material machinery sector expects to see an end to the construction boom in 2009.	Magazine Article	17 Dec 2008	0 Stars
FIEC backs EC’s idea The European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC) says it fully supports the €200 billion European economic recovery plan presented by the European Commission, which aims to pull the continent out of current financial hard times.	Magazine Article	17 Dec 2008	0 Stars
CECA unveils action plan for SMEs The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) has set out a ten-point plan to avoid more than 8,000 redundancies among the UK’s small and medium-sized, civil-engineering firms.	Magazine Article	17 Dec 2008	0 Stars
Pipe-piling at complex Hong Kong project At a cost of H$4.94 billion (US$637 million), the new Central Government Complex in Hong Kong will become an architectural landmark.	Magazine Article	17 Dec 2008	0 Stars
Sandvik adapts both production capacity and costs In conjunction with the presentation of third-quarter earnings, Sandvik provided information concerning a weaker trend in several market segments. The negative trend accelerated during the beginning of the fourth quarter.	Magazine Article	17 Dec 2008	0 Stars
Vibro Projects is quick off the mark in France UK-based Vibro Projects Ltd says it has been proven to be a ‘European Champion’ when it comes to vibro ground improvement, after going head to head with German and French rigs at a project in Dourges, France.	Magazine Article	17 Dec 2008	0 Stars
Trevi reports profits hike Italy-based Trevi, one of the world leaders in engineering services and machinery for special foundations and drilling, has approved interim results for the period to September 30.	Magazine Article	17 Dec 2008	0 Stars
US heat-pump tax credits As part of the 2008 economic stimulus package, the US Department of Energy has announced tax credits of up to US$2,000 for residential, geothermal ground-source, heat-pump installations.	Magazine Article	17 Dec 2008	0 Stars
Geothermal drilling around the Polar Circle The tiny island of Grimsey is located in the Atlantic ocean, approximately 40km off the north coast of Iceland. The Polar Circle splits the island in two as it lies across it near the airport building.	Headline Article	17 Dec 2008	0 Stars
Boart reduces sales forecasts in global economic decline IN LIGHT of unprecedented developments in global economies that have recently occurred, Boart Longyear has cut sales guidance for the year to December 31 due to currency declines, and announced plans to lay off 150 people.	Headline Article	27 Nov 2008	0 Stars
Raeburn completes steep ground probe at Scottish reservoir RAEBURN Drilling and Geotechnical Ltd completed the site works and reporting of a ground investigation at Camphill Reservoir in Ayrshire, for Scottish Water, in June.	Magazine Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars
Stanley works buyout In the summer, Stanley Works completed the purchase of the outstanding shares of Xmark Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of VeriChip Corporation.	Magazine Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars
Structural soils grows Structural Soils has opened an office in Glasgow, Scotland. Jon Bassett will head up the new team to be based at RSK’s Glasgow office, supported by Structural Soils’ Castleford office for drilling and laboratory resources.	Magazine Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars
Trevi gets go-ahead for double work on US dams TREVI ICOS has got the green light for contracts for consolidation work on the Wolf Creek and Hoover dams in the US.	Magazine Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars
Employers urged to carry out construction site risk assessments A BUILDING company based in Oxford, UK, has been prosecuted following an accident on a building site. The accident saw an employee sustain significant leg burns after coming in contact with wet cement.	Magazine Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars
Swedish heat-pump deal AB Bromöllahem in Bromölla, Sweden, has awarded Malmberg a contract to erect two heat-pump plants to recover energy from subsoil water.	Magazine Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars
Wirth in offshore work In August, Germany-based Wirth received a large order for drilling equipment for two ultra-deepwater drilling platforms. Along with Norwegian partner Aker Solutions, Wirth will equip two platforms, Project Sevan 2 and 3, designed for a water depth of 3,000m, one offshore India and the other offshore Brazil.	Magazine Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars
nLANKELMA aids BAA probe Lankelma has assisted Irish ground investigation contractor Glover Site Investigations’ newly established Scottish office in the completion of the BAA Edinburgh Airport and Grogar Burn ground investigation. The CPT investigation consisted of 18 piezocone tests, MOSTAP fixed piston soil sampling at three sites and a series of dissipation tests to assess the in-situ con­solidation characteristics of the soils encountered. The data was required by the design team to assess the suitability of materials for re-use in earthworks and flood embankment construction. Much of the work was undertaken airside.	Magazine Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars
Lankelma’s sefton tests Lankelma has carried out CPTs on an intertidal area and on the foreland at Crosby Beach, Sefton, for Sefton Borough Council in the UK. Geotechnical information gained will be used in the planning of an outfall pipe.	Magazine Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars
MINOVA polish purchase Rockbolting firm Minova has acquired Poland-based Arnall, a manufacturer of steel bolts, cable bolts and accessories, and Berg- und Industrietechnik GmbH (BWZ), a steel-bolt manufacturer from Bottrop in Germany.	Magazine Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars
DMT grows in AGL buy Germany-based technology services provider DMT has acquired Canada-based Associated Geosciences Ltd (AGL).	Magazine Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars
Bachy Soletanche acquires McDonnell GEOTECHNICAL specialist Bachy Soletanche Ltd has purchased piling contractor McDonnell Piling and Foundations Ltd.	Magazine Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars
Fresh evidence lifts blame on drilling for Java quake NEW facts presented this week at the Geological Society of London cast doubt on the viewpoint that drilling caused one of the world’s most significant natural disasters in recent years.	Magazine Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars
Bachy reinforces Welsh dam IN THE picturesque surroundings of Ebbw Vale, South Wales, Bachy Soletanche Ltd is conducting essential remedial works at the Dwr Cymru Welsh Water owned Lower Carno Dam.	Magazine Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars
Atlas Copco looks to lower costs ATLAS Copco has reported third-quarter results with good order growth and record operating profit. Sales of mining equipment and aftermarket products were very strong, and all three business areas recorded sales and order growth.	Magazine Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars
Terex blames challenging environment TEREX Corporation has announced net income for the third quarter of 2008 of US$93 million, versus net income of US$151 million for the same period of 2007, a decrease in earnings per share of 33%.	Magazine Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars
Visitors Combe Down to stone mines project ON June 6 more than 90 invited guests visited Combe Down Stone Mines Bath UK to take part in a special underground tour to view the stabilisation works and listen to a range of presentations by the project team.	Magazine Article	01 Aug 2008	0 Stars
Esor earnings rise on back of buoyant SA construction ORGANIC growth driven by the buoyant South African construction market helped AltX-listed geotechnical-engineering specialist Esor to report strong results in the year to February 2008.	Magazine Article	01 Aug 2008	0 Stars
Edmund Nuttall and Arup team up for flood relief project EDMUND Nuttall and Arup were jointly contracted by the Environmental Agency to create a scheme to relieve Wakefield in the UK of repeated flood events of the River Calder.	Magazine Article	01 Aug 2008	0 Stars
AMEC agrees to buy Geomatrix for US$85m AMEC the international engineering and project management company has reached an agreement to acquire Geomatrix Consultants Inc from its owner-managers for US$85 million.	Magazine Article	01 Aug 2008	0 Stars
Boart Longyear acquires Westrod Engineering BOART Longyear has acquired Westrod Engineering a Western Australia-based manufacturer of reversecirculation (RC) rods subs and swivels for minerals drilling. The acquisition expands Boart Longyear’s existing minerals exploration product offering and complements the recent acquisition of KWL a Perth-based RC and multi-purpose drill-rig manufacturer.	Magazine Article	01 Aug 2008	0 Stars
Major Drilling`s Q4 fiscal earning up MAJOR Drilling Group International Inc has reported its results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008 ending April 30 which show fiscal revenues up 42% and earnings up 60%.	Magazine Article	01 Aug 2008	0 Stars
Bauer Lebanon Foundations Bauer Lebanon Foundations BAUER Lebanon Foundations was assigned to do the soil-improvement works for its client Siemens AG at a project that aims to satisfy part of the energy demand in Lebanon. Through interconnecting its own electric grid with that of Syria through a 400kV transmission network the project allows for an exchange of energy with Syria Egypt Iraq Jordan and Turkey.	Magazine Article	01 Aug 2008	0 Stars
Stent meets traffic-stopping challenge HAMPSHIRE UK-based Stent part of Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering has worked on the foundations for a brand new eight-storey office block at One Waterloo Street in Glasgow’s city centre for the main contractor Miller Construction.	Magazine Article	01 Aug 2008	0 Stars
Bachy Soletanche gives Tesco great value BACHY Soletanche Ltd has completed a fast-track groundworks project for supermarket chain Tesco. The project required the construction of three contiguous piled walls for the redevelopment of a store in St Leonards near Hastings UK.	Magazine Article	01 Aug 2008	0 Stars

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