GDI OCTOBER 2009
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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...Geobrugg rock-fall first
Geobrugg has produced the GBE-500A rock-fall barrier, which has been designed and tested in compliance with new European guidelines ETAG 27 – published by the European Organisation for Technical Approvals – a world first, according to the company. Full story...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. Full story...Projects
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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...Oregon hot spring drill
US Geothermal has started development drilling at the Neal Hot Springs Geothermal Project in eastern Oregon. Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...Sonic demonstration
SonicSampDrill is planning more demonstration days at Giesbeek, The Netherlands, on October 30 and November 27 Full story...Equipment
Geobrugg rock-fall first
Geobrugg has produced the GBE-500A rock-fall barrier, which has been designed and tested in compliance with new European guidelines ETAG 27 – published by the European Organisation for Technical Approvals – a world first, according to the company. Full story...Mud Buster makes short work of tight situations
UK-based Master Pump Ltd (MPL) has developed the Mud Buster mud-cleaning machine (pictured), which it said is easily transportable, compact and available for purchase or hire at competitive rates Full story...Tank and fuel cleaning
Algae-X International (AXI) has released a line of high-capacity, modular, fully-automated mobile tank-cleaning and fuel-restoration systems Full story...Floor heating deal
Wirral, UK-based renewable energy product manufacturer Stiebel Eltron has signed a partnership agreement with Nu-Heat Underfloor & Renewables, the UK supplier of domestic underfloor heating systems Full story...McLaughlin launches ON Target auger-bore steering head
US-based McLaughlin has unveiled a steering head for auger bores that it said offers both grade and lateral control. Full story...Long-hole drill ships
Atlas Copco has introduced the COP 3060MUX (pictured, below) hydraulic rock drill for use in underground long-hole drilling Full story...Atlas adds to radio-remote rock-drill range
Atlas Copco has launched two additional rock-drill rigs with built-in radio remote control (RRC) systems: the ROC D3-01 RRC and the ROC D3-03 RRC Full story...Laser scanner creates 3D map of historic mine
A laser scanning robot has been used to create a 3D model of an historic tin mine in Cornwall, UK Full story...Cubis ‘increasing presence’ in ground source heat sector
UK-based Cubis Industries has been born from the coming together of three manufacturers of access chamber systems and says it is the European market leader in the industry Full story...Hexagon move creates giant GPS network
Hexagon, parent company of Leica Geosystems, has entered into an agreement to acquire the Spatial Systems division of Loyola Enterprises Inc Full story...Cummins driver ships
Cummins has launched a QSL9G gas compression driver – that has 175hp (130kW) at 1,800rpm – for the oil and gas market Full story...Design foundations
UK ground source company GECCO2 has launched a professional CAD service aimed at the foundation sector Full story...Van Elle expands factory
UK piling and foundation contractor Van Elle Ltd has announced it is extending its precast-manufacturing facility at its site in East Dereham, Norfolk, to accommodate the manufacture of its Smartfoot modular foundation system. Full story...Doosan launches portable compressor
Doosan Infracore Portable Power has launched its 12/150 model, the company’s largest single-axle portable compressor Full story...Coffey teams up with UK’s Virtalis
The Brazilian operation of professional services consultancy Coffey International has entered into a preliminary strategic partnership with the UK’s Virtalis, the virtual reality company Full story...People
Niton free seminars
In co-operation with Analytical Training Consultants and Thermo Scientific, Niton UK is organising two free seminars on American Petroleum Institute (API) Recommended Practice 578 (2nd Ed) and techniques in positive material identification testing Full story...Polymer geogrid key
A call for industry and universities to drive forward key opportunities for research into polymer geogrid applications has been made after a symposium to mark 25 years of technological advancement Full story...Messe Berlin reports InnoTrans exhibition space almost full
One year before Berlin’s InnoTrans exhibition, its organisers have revealed that almost all available space at the trade fair for transport technology has already been reserved Full story...First BC India show
The first bC India, a Bauma Conexpo show for construction machinery, mining machines and construction vehicles, will take place on February 8-11, 2011, in Mumbai Full story...Sales still sliding
Sales of construction products continued to decline, despite recent optimism in the housing sector, according to Ernst and Young/Construction Products Association Activity Barometer Full story...Van Walt meets lab challenge
Van Walt, a specialist supplier of environmental monitoring equipment, has put together information detailing changes scheduled to come into force that will affect how contaminated soil samples are taken, and the equipment needed to comply with the new standards Full story...Remediation course
The Geological Society of South Africa is presenting a course on environmental and social aspects of exploration and mining on October 23 at Glen Hove Conferencing in Johannesburg Full story...Kensa wins greenest
Kensa Engineering, a UK manufacturer of ground-source heat pumps, secured the Green Manufacturer of the Year Award at the Corgi Awards 2009 Full story...Life and times of Robert Bauer
A new autobiography, Roughneckin, recounts the life and times of petroleum engineer and offshore drilling pioneer Robert Bauer Full story...Sinclair Knight Merz expands strategic consulting ability in acquiring Enviros
Engineering, sciences and project-delivery firm Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) has acquired Enviros, a multi-disciplinary sustainability, environmental and health and safety consultancy in the UK Full story...CPA: no recovery until 2011
Following the sharpest fall in construction output on record, the latest forecasts from the UK’s Construction Products Association (CPA) do not anticipate any recovery until 2011 Full story...Web advice for workers posted in EU countries
The European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW) and the European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC) have launched a website (www.posting-workers.eu) that addresses issues arising from the mobility of construction workers Full story...Features
Benefits in store for UK market
Chesterfield, Derbyshire-based Drill Store UK, a source and supply company for the exploration, mining, geotechnical, site investigation and natural stone industries, has become Boart Longyear’s distributor in the UK. GDI talks to Adrian Richardson Full story...Taking the right direction
Directional core drilling is becoming popular in geotechnical exploration for tunnels Full story...Meeting under the river
US-based Prime Horizontal reports on a record-setting, 2.45km HDD intersect crossing of the Qiantang River that will take gas to China’s Zhejiang Province Full story...Weathering the glo bal downturn
While Australia and New Zealand, in contrast to other parts of the world, benefited from a sheltered and conservative banking sector and sound underlying economy, the effects of the global recession can be seen in some drilling sectors Full story...MALÅ waves in true 3D GPR technique
Jaana Gustafsson of MALÅ GeoScience reports on a technique using true 3D subsurface site investigations with ground-penetrating radar Full story...Geotechnica on guard duty
At the Geotechnica Exhibition, organised by Equipe Training at Banbury, the UK Health & Safety Executive made clear its interest in the guarding of the rotary-drilling rigs on display, but also clarified its recommendations on ‘acceptable’ guarding Full story...Core values shine through
Within five months of drilling with BT rods, manufactured in North Bay, Canada, Forage Mercier reached a record depth of 7,800ft while maintaining the integrity of rod threads Full story...Site Search
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