Tunnel Boring Australia has completed a number of interesting pipe jacking projects across the eastern coast of the country - delivering services under road and rail. Here Trenchless Australasia reviews a selection of the successful projects.
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Bursting records in Ukraine
In line with the most optimistic forecasts of Ukrainian experts, the introduction of Trenchless Technology into national practices of construction and repair of underground networks is gaining momentum.
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A match made in trenchless
The relationship between equipment supplier and contractor is an important component of a successfully completed project. Here, David Proctor from Diversified Services Australia discusses the company's relationship with Ditch Witch that spans nearly two decades.
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Technology triumphs at TerraMacs
TerraMacs, a New Zealand-based manufacturer of small to medium sized trenchless equipment, reports seeing a marked increase in sales of its products internationally. This reflects what the company believes is the start of government commitments around the globe to capital spend in infrastructure in order to help stimulate ailing economies.
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Relining – defending the barracks
Nuflow's relining technology has been used to successfully reline the Jezzine Barracks sewer lines, protecting the site, located in Townsville Queensland.
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Resins – setting the trend
Daniel Miklos discusses the role of resins in the Australasian Trenchless Technology industry and the application of various resin types for specific situations.
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CIPP liners – advances and myths
While cured-in-place-pipe (CIPP) lining of gravity pipes has dominated the world market for over 35 years, it is still relatively new to some Australian clients. There have also been a number of advances in the field in recent years. General Manager of Insituform Daniel Gamboa discusses some of those advances, as well as dispelling some of the myths.
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Ultracoat has rehabilitation covered
Fernco Environmental's Ultracoat is a leading solids epoxy coating system. Used for the rehabilitation and structural reinforcement of a wide range of substrates, the system leaves an exceptionally hard wearing, smooth and waterproof coating, with excellent chemical resistance.
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Connecting the nation
The proposed $A43 billion National Broadband Network is in the very early stages of development. The Federal Government is in consultation to determine the location and installation methods for the proposed network. In the early 1990s, the previous rollout saw a boom in horizontal directional drilling.
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Hose runner a runaway success
Starky Constructions is a specialist equipment designer and manufacturer for the underground services industry. One of the most innovative products is the hose runner.
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3D underground utilities mapping
The New South Wales Government has taken tougher measures to ensure that contractors are abiding by proper procedure prior to excavation to prevent cutting power cables and gas lines. Thomas Lee discusses the role of 3D utilities mapping in locating underground assets.
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The new Trenchless Australasia site is live!
The highly anticipated updated Trenchless Australasia website is now live! The website is an invaluable source for all the latest trenchless industry news, projects and profiles.
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Sydney Water wins heritage award
Trenchless rehabilitation work to restore one of Sydney's oldest sewers earned Sydney Water an engineering excellence award at the Streets Opening Conference, held in May.
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BTB: directional drilling all over Australia
Offering consulting and project management services for underground locations, including pit and pipe installations, BTB Australia has won a number of recent contracts around the country.
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Coe Drilling successfully completes PNG river crossing
In early 2008, Ok Tedi Mining contracted Coe Drilling to undertake the Ok Tedi River crossing project, entailing the construction of a 500 m long DN 200 steel mine waste tailings pipeline beneath the Ok Tedi River to transport the mine waste to a newly constructed tailings dam on the west side of the river near Bige in Papua New Guinea.
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Use of Geophysical Techniques to Investigate River Crossing Alignments
An understanding of the river bottom profile and the ground conditions beneath it are essential to produce a good drill path design, as without this information being available there is an increased risk that problems will develop either during construction or operation of a pipeline.
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Relieving Rosanna: boring works for Yarra Valley Water
Melbourne's largest water business Yarra Valley Water found that branch sewers located with the North Yarra and Rosanna Sewerage Catchment Area Plan (SCAP) were unable to contain sewerage during storms, resulting in the need to construct a $A3.5 million relieving sewer via Trenchless Technology.
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ORFEUS: testing a new bore-head GPR for HDD equipment
The Optimised Radar to find Every Utility in the Street (ORFEUS) is a collaborative research project aiming to improve the performance of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and develop a new radar to provide look-ahead capability for HDD equipment.
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Into the vortex
Vortex Pipes Limited has been awarded a contract with the Water Corporation of Western Australia to refurbish sewers in the Perth region through its subsidiary Premium Pipe Services.
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CIPP – relining pipe in Honolulu
Insituform Technologies has been awarded a $US9.1 million contract by the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii to reline sewer pipe using cured-in-place-pipe (CIPP).
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HOBAS GRP pipe for jacking in Epping
Yarra Valley Water's Epping Branch Sewer Stage 2 will include 900 metres of pipe jacking 1,000 mm diameter pipe through solid basalt, located in Melbourne Victoria.
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Ollie breaks through for Sugarloaf
An 830 metre tunnel under the Toolangi State Forest, which forms part of the Sugarloaf Pipeline, has been completed using "÷Ollie', an $A8 million, 100 tonne remote-controlled tunnel boring machine (TBM). The tunnel was started on 1 April and took a crew of ten workers ten weeks to complete.
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Kembla celebrates 15 years
Kembla Watertech, the company that introduced the Ex lining to Australia, is celebrating fifteen years as a specialist Trenchless Technology company.
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Contracting improved sewer services in NSW
John Holland, as part of the Priority Sewerage Program Alliance being delivered by Sydney Water in conjunction with MWH Australia, United Group Infrastructure and Manidis Roberts, has been awarded three contracts to deliver new water infrastructure in New South Wales. The projects involve a range of trenchless techniques.
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No Dig goes to Moscow
In early June, delegates from around the world, including locals Jeff Pace and Chris Bland, made their way to Moscow for the 2008 International No Dig.
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Pipe jacks storming ahead in Queensland
As a result of the Australian Infrastructure boom, Tunnel Boring Australia (TBA) has completed over 20 pipe jacked tunnels in the last 18 months with diameters ranging from 1,350 mm to 2,400 mm diameter for a variety of disciplines and clients on the eastern coast.
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