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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.
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Magazine Article |
05 Aug 2010 |
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Sierra in alum geo find
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Magazine Article |
05 Aug 2010 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
05 Aug 2010 |
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Schlumberger expands
Schlumberger has acquired GeothermEx, a California-based global provider of geothermal consulting services.
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Magazine Article |
05 Aug 2010 |
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Junttan Oy buys up ExcaDrill
FINLAND-BASED Junttan Oy is buying ExcaDrill, PiloMac Oy’s rock-drilling equipment unit.
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05 Aug 2010 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
05 Aug 2010 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
05 Aug 2010 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
05 Aug 2010 |
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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.
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05 Aug 2010 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
16 Jun 2010 |
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GEO in wind farm probe
Centrica has contracted the Danish Geotechnical Institute (GEO) to perform site investigations for offshore wind farm Race Bank.
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Magazine Article |
16 Jun 2010 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
16 Jun 2010 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
16 Jun 2010 |
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Schlumberger in IT buy
Schlumberger has acquired IGEOSS, a developer of structural geology software.
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Magazine Article |
16 Jun 2010 |
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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.
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16 Jun 2010 |
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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.
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16 Jun 2010 |
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Major aquires SMD
Major Drilling has entered the environmental drilling sector with the purchase of SMD Services of Huntsville, Alabama, US.
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16 Jun 2010 |
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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.
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16 Jun 2010 |
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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.
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16 Jun 2010 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
16 Jun 2010 |
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Site safety issues
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reports that 25% of construction sites in the Greater Manchester area failed safety tests.
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Magazine Article |
16 Jun 2010 |
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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.
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16 Jun 2010 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
16 Jun 2010 |
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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.
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16 Jun 2010 |
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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.
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16 Jun 2010 |
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Sonic rigs set the pace
Drilling geothermal holes in under three hours,sonic rigs have set the pace.
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16 Jun 2010 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
16 Jun 2010 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
15 Apr 2010 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
15 Apr 2010 |
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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.
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15 Apr 2010 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
15 Apr 2010 |
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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.
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15 Apr 2010 |
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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.
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15 Apr 2010 |
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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.
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16 Feb 2010 |
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GreenEarth in Anglesea
Australia-based Greenearth Energy has been awarded a total of A$25million under the Victorian Government’s ‘Energy Technology Innovation Strategy’ for the next two stages of its Anglesea Geothermal Project.
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16 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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16 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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16 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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16 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
16 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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16 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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16 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
16 Feb 2010 |
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Atlas Copco agrees to buy Quincy Compressors
ATLAS Copco has agreed to acquire Quincy Compressor from EnPro Industries for approximately US$190 million.
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16 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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16 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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16 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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16 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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16 Feb 2010 |
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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
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Magazine Article |
23 Dec 2009 |
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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
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23 Dec 2009 |
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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
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Magazine Article |
23 Dec 2009 |
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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
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23 Dec 2009 |
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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
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23 Dec 2009 |
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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
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23 Dec 2009 |
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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
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23 Dec 2009 |
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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
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23 Dec 2009 |
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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
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23 Dec 2009 |
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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
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23 Dec 2009 |
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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
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23 Dec 2009 |
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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
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23 Dec 2009 |
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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
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Magazine Article |
23 Dec 2009 |
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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
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Magazine Article |
23 Dec 2009 |
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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
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23 Dec 2009 |
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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
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23 Dec 2009 |
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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.
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23 Dec 2009 |
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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
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21 Dec 2009 |
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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
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21 Dec 2009 |
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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
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21 Dec 2009 |
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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”
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21 Dec 2009 |
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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.
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21 Dec 2009 |
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Redruth is the scene of Geothermal hot-rock innovation
Geothermal Engineering has outlined plans to pioneer hot-rock energy in the UK
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21 Dec 2009 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
21 Dec 2009 |
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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.
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Magazine Article |
21 Dec 2009 |
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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.
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21 Dec 2009 |
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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
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21 Dec 2009 |
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DSI SA subject to cartel activity probe in mining-bolt market
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Magazine Article |
21 Dec 2009 |
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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)
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21 Dec 2009 |
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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
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21 Dec 2009 |
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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.
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21 Dec 2009 |
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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.
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21 Dec 2009 |
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Sonic demonstration
SonicSampDrill is planning more demonstration days at Giesbeek, The Netherlands, on October 30 and November 27
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Magazine Article |
21 Oct 2009 |
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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
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21 Oct 2009 |
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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
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Magazine Article |
21 Oct 2009 |
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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
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Magazine Article |
21 Oct 2009 |
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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
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21 Oct 2009 |
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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
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21 Oct 2009 |
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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
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21 Oct 2009 |
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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
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21 Oct 2009 |
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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
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21 Oct 2009 |
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Oregon hot spring drill
US Geothermal has started development drilling at the Neal Hot Springs Geothermal Project in eastern Oregon.
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Magazine Article |
21 Oct 2009 |
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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.
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21 Oct 2009 |
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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.
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21 Oct 2009 |
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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.
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21 Oct 2009 |
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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.
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21 Oct 2009 |
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Capital in Mozambique
Capital Drilling has commenced operations in Mozambique at two projects in Tete Province.
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Magazine Article |
30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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Magazine Article |
30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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30 Sep 2009 |
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BBGE and URS pilot innovative soil clean-up solution
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Magazine Article |
30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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30 Sep 2009 |
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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%
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30 Sep 2009 |
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Sierra powers on
Sierra Geothermal Power Corp ended the second quarter of 2009 with C$2.9 million of working capital.
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30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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Magazine Article |
30 Sep 2009 |
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Malmberg tests
Sweden-based Malmberg has begun test drilling to secure the water supply for the Municipality of Kristianstad
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Magazine Article |
30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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Magazine Article |
30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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30 Sep 2009 |
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Nicholson pushes on at Canton Lake
Nicholson is making steady progress on the Canton Lake Dam auxiliary spillway-channel excavation project in Canton, Oklahoma
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30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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Magazine Article |
30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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Magazine Article |
30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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30 Sep 2009 |
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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)
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30 Sep 2009 |
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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
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30 Sep 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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Major Q4 results down
Major Drilling has reported results for its fourth quarter of fiscal year 2009, ended April 30.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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Cirrus Energi formed
Cirrus Energi has been formed as a subsidiary of UK ground-source heat-pump supplier and installer Geothermal International.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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21 Aug 2009 |
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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.
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17 Jun 2009 |
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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.
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17 Jun 2009 |
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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.
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17 Jun 2009 |
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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.
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17 Jun 2009 |
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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.
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17 Jun 2009 |
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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.
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17 Jun 2009 |
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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.
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17 Jun 2009 |
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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).
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17 Jun 2009 |
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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.
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17 Jun 2009 |
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Secret blacklisting
The UK Government plans new regulations to prevent the secret blacklisting of workers by construction companies.
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17 Jun 2009 |
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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.
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17 Jun 2009 |
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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.
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17 Jun 2009 |
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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.
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17 Jun 2009 |
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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.
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17 Jun 2009 |
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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.
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21 May 2009 |
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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.
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21 May 2009 |
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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.
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21 May 2009 |
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ACE Scottish meltdown warning
Association for Consultancy and Engineering, ACE, construction industry, meltdown, Scottish Futures Trust, Jim Tod, Scottish Building Federation
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21 May 2009 |
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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.
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21 May 2009 |
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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.
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21 May 2009 |
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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.
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21 May 2009 |
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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.
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21 May 2009 |
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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.
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21 May 2009 |
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Lankelma acquires ARA
Lankelma has acquired the ARA geotechnical and environmental site investigation services branch in Houston, Texas.
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21 May 2009 |
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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.
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21 May 2009 |
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Lift for May gurney
May Gurney Integrated Services has reported on trading for the year ended March 31, 2009.
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21 May 2009 |
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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.
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21 May 2009 |
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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.
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21 May 2009 |
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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.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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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.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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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.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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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.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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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.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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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.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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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.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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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.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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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.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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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.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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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.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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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.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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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.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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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.
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11 Mar 2009 |
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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.
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11 Mar 2009 |
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Rhine flood drill job
A MidSonic drill rig drilled 118 holes in October and November 2008 in Speyer, Germany, where floods threaten the city.
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11 Mar 2009 |
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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.
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11 Mar 2009 |
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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.
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11 Mar 2009 |
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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.
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11 Mar 2009 |
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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.
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11 Mar 2009 |
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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.
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11 Mar 2009 |
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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.
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11 Mar 2009 |
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EUwork time progress
The European Parliament (EP) voted in December in plenary on the second reading of the proposed new EU Working Time Directive.
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11 Mar 2009 |
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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.
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11 Mar 2009 |
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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.
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18 Feb 2009 |
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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.
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18 Feb 2009 |
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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.
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18 Feb 2009 |
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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,
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18 Feb 2009 |
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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.
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18 Feb 2009 |
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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.
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18 Feb 2009 |
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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.
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18 Feb 2009 |
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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.
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18 Feb 2009 |
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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).
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18 Feb 2009 |
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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.
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18 Feb 2009 |
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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.
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18 Feb 2009 |
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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.
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18 Feb 2009 |
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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.
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17 Dec 2008 |
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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.
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17 Dec 2008 |
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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.
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17 Dec 2008 |
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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.
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17 Dec 2008 |
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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.
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17 Dec 2008 |
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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.
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17 Dec 2008 |
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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.
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17 Dec 2008 |
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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.
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17 Dec 2008 |
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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.
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17 Dec 2008 |
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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.
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17 Dec 2008 |
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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.
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17 Dec 2008 |
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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.
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17 Dec 2008 |
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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.
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27 Nov 2008 |
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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.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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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.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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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.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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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.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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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.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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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.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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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.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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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.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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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.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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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.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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Bachy Soletanche acquires McDonnell
GEOTECHNICAL specialist Bachy Soletanche Ltd has purchased piling contractor McDonnell Piling and Foundations Ltd.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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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.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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DMT grows in AGL buy
Germany-based technology services provider DMT has acquired Canada-based Associated Geosciences Ltd (AGL).
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26 Nov 2008 |
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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.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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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.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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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%.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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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.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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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.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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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.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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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.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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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%.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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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.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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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.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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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.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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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.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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