Pipe Selection Chart
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Baltimore's Public Works Museum Educates Area Residents
Clean, plentiful drinking water, working toilets, dependable electric power and telephone service – all are considered necessities that most of us take for granted. Not until one or more of these services fail do we realize how important they are.
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9th Annual HDD Survey
Growing Pains
Maturing Market Dealing With Variety Of Issues
A host of concerns and issues impacting the horizontal directional drilling industry were cited by rig owners/operators in response to an exclusive survey conducted by Underground Construction. The nature and frequency of many comments, types of issues and concerns cited were consistent with an industry coming to grips with its development. In other words, the HDD market in North America is growing up.
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UCT Education Program Key Feature Of ICUEE 2007
The 2007 International Construction and Utility Equipment Exposition (ICUEE) will offer attendees a wider variety than ever before of pre-show and at-show educational sessions targeting underground, above-ground and overhead applications.
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Used HDD Rig Dynamic Matures With Market
In the years following the telecommunications bust and directional drilling industry recession that followed, there was a glut of good, used horizontal directional drilling (HDD) equipment available at prices that significantly impacted sales of new machines as the industry began to recover.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Used HDD Equipment:
HDD Broker, (866) 960-3331, hddbroker.com
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Tough Outfall Installation Made Possible
Pit-Launched HDD
Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) is playing an important role in the project at a world-renowned oceanography center in California. HDD is helping to construct a new seawater return piping system that is essential for the center to conduct its research and teaching programs..

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
HDD contractor:
Inland Valley Engineering, (951) 719-8414, inlandvalleyengineering.com
Tracking system:
DigiTrak from Digital Control Inc.,
(800) 288-3610, digital-control.com
Fluid mixing system:
StraightLine,
(800) 654-3484, straightlinehdd.com
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Getting The Most Out Of Large HDD Rigs:
Big Rigs Provide Different Challenges
Than Small Rigs
“Big” horizontal directional drilling projects (HDD)– those that must install large-diameter material at long distances – call for large drill rigs, and this month Underground Construction’s continuing series on productivity focuses on HDD equipment with 100,000 pounds or more pullback power.
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Rehabilitation Technology
U-Tech: Study Outlines Design Methods For
Close-Fit Pipe Rehab
For several years, members of the Pipeline Infrastructure (PINS) Task Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has labored to develop new design methods to correctly calculate loadings on pipe to be rehabilitated by close-fit rehabilitation lining methods.
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