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Veolia Water Network Services make it five

Trenchless Australasia — July 2010 Veolia Water Network Services has just added an 800G Grundoburst to its fleet of Tracto-Technik pipe bursting machines. The power and speed of the new machine made it the perfect choice for Veolia’s recent project in western Sydney.

Call for pipe bursters and sewer relining

Tue, 15 June 2010 Bega Valley Shire Council, located in New South Wales, has put out a call for tenders for a sewer pipe bursting program and sewer relining program.

Berry joins Downer EDI

Wed, 24 March 2010 New Zealand’s Downer EDI Works have acquired Berry Pipelines Pty Ltd based in Bayswater, Victoria.

I love Trenchless Technology!

Wed, 3 March 2010 The Trenchless Australasia magazine team loves Trenchless Technology – do you?

Trenchless – top of the charts

Mon, 1 February 2010 The April 2010 edition of Trenchless Australasia will feature the inaugural Trenchless Wall Chart, which will be posted free to thousands of decision makers.

GRP jacking pipe gets the job done

Trenchless Australasia — September 2009 The Epping Craigieburn Sewerage Project (ECSP) is a major sewerage infrastructure project by Yarra Valley Water to service the rapid development taking place in the north of Melbourne, Victoria.

Jobs gain momentum in Sydney

Wed, 29 July 2009 New South Wales Water Minister Phil Costa has said that the signing of the $A900 million contract between Sydney Water and the Momentum consortium, to maintain and renew Sydney’s water network, will sustain 300 jobs a year for at least the next four years, with an optional extension until 2016.

Brisbane Domestic Airport 300 mm rising main replacement

Trenchless Australasia — September 2004 Brisbane’s very busy domestic airport, under the management of the Brisbane Airport Corporation has a network of sewer mains around the airport facilities. One of these mains, a 300 mm PVC rising main, is located under the main roadway entrance to the airport passenger terminals.

Vermeer unviels PortaBurst PB30

Trenchless Australasia — March 2005 The PortaBurst PB30 has been brought to Australia, after Townsville’s Citiwater became the first and only company in Oceania to purchase the unit.

TT Asia Pacific heads to Brisbane

Trenchless Australasia — March 2005 After being situated on the Gold Coast for some years, in 2004 TT Asia Pacific decided that relocating to Brisbane would offer a better service to customers. After settling on a new location in Mansfield, TT Asia Pacific celebrated their move with an Open Day during February 2005.

Underground Services take delivery of new Grundodrill

Trenchless Australasia — June 2005 TT Asia Pacific has supplied a new Grundodrill 13X Directional Drill to Perth-based Underground Services Australia. This is the first machine of this style Underground Services has ordered, after many months were spent researching the Australian and overseas market for a suitable directional drill rig package to supplement the existing fleet of machines.

Replacement of existing sewer and water mains using pipe bursting

Trenchless Australasia — December 2005 Samuel Ariaratnam is a Trenchless Technology academic with a specialised knowledge of pipe bursting. This paper, which Samuel recently presented at enviroNZ05, provides a detailed summary of pipe bursting, highlights the benefits of using Trenchless Technologies over traditional open-cut rehabilitation methods and outlines the possibilities pipe bursting can provide for pipeline repair.

New Grundotugger works through tight Canberra soils

Trenchless Australasia — December 2005 In July this year, Joel Royal of Drain King in Canberra took delivery of the new Tracto-Technik Grundotugger. This lateral pipe burster uses simple hydraulics and cable to burst old brittle pipe systems and pulls in new PE pipe of 110 or 160 mm over lengths of up to 50 metres in situ.

Pitch firbre pipe replacement keeps Cornish businesses open

Trenchless Australasia — March 2006 Drainage contractor Charlton Drains of Tewkesbury Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, recently undertook a major size-for-size pipe replacement project in the picturesque Cornish fishing village of Looe, in East Cornwall. Lessons learned throughout this project will be of interest to readers of Trenchless Australasia and will be applicable to projects in our region.

Ipswich water main replaced with Grundoburst 800G

Trenchless Australasia — March 2006 Ipswich Water, west of Brisbane, like most local councils, have hundreds of kilometres of water mains in their water distribution network. These mains do not last forever and will require rehabilitation eventually. After many years of service this 225mm cast iron main had some repairs which were becoming more and more frequent due to a combination of the black soil movement in the area and corrosion of the cast iron material.

Beijing sewer rehabilitation

Trenchless Australasia — March 2006 The Beijing Municipal Administration recently contracted Beijing Chuanganya Trenchless Technology and Engineering to coordinate the total reconstruction of over 300 m of an existing concrete sewer main, some 270 m of which was to be done by trenchless pipe bursting.

HammerHead releases new aiming sight and launching kits for piercing tool line

Trenchless Australasia — August 2006 The best bores start with a tool aimed on target. Since accurate alignment is essential, HammerHead offers aiming and launching equipment that assures the piercing tool is aligned both vertically and horizontally before the bore is begun.

Tracto-Technik’s Grundoburst 1250G in China

Trenchless Australasia — August 2006 In May 2006, Beijing company Chuanganya Trenchless Technology upgraded to the new Grundoburst 1250G (125 tonne) pipe bursting system from their previous Grundoburst 800G (80 tonne) unit. As larger diameter pipes would require the performance of a more powerful system, the upgrade would give the company a greater range to add to their capabilities.

Trenchless pipe bursting to the rescue of collapsed stormwater main in Springfield, Brisbane

Trenchless Australasia — August 2006 South East Queensland Underroad Drillers (SEQUD) was approached by Mike Gurney of Gurney Earthmoving, a contractor working for Delfin-property developers of Springfield, to determine if it was possible to drill out a collapsed 225 mm PVC storm water pipe and replace it with a new 250 mm polyethylene main.

CLM Trenchless - a new beginnning

Trenchless Australasia — August 2006 In July 2005, Fergus Doyle (CLM Excavations Managing Director), Trevor Groeneveld (former owner of No Dig Pipelaying and Manager of Collex Pipeline Services) and Phill Cook (CLM Excavations General Manager) completed the acquisition of the Collex Pipeline Services division, with the exception of the CIPP sewer lining business which Collex continues to operate.

Kembla upsizes pipe bursting capability

Trenchless Australasia — October/November 2006 Kembla Watertech has been pipe bursting since 2001 and recently increased its capability to burst and upsize pipes with the purchase of a Grundoburst 800G.

Short burst, big savings

Trenchless Australasia — October/November 2006 In the midst of a $US53 million addition to the Mechanical Engineering building on the Purdue University campus, it was discovered that a 15 foot deep, 12 inch clay sewer lateral that serviced the building had a collapsed section of pipe.

UEA marks ten years in trenchless industry

Trenchless Australasia — October/November 2006 2006 marks ten years of trading for the UEA trenchless division. Over the past ten years the company has seen huge improvements in equipment as well as a huge increase in demand on the technology.

GrundoBurst rapidly replacing Sydney water mains

Trenchless Australasia — October/November 2006 The Sydney Water Main Replacement Program commenced last year when Collex purchased their first GrundoBurst 400G machine, which has been achieving daily averages of 200 to 240 metres, with these results and the demonstrated reliability of the unit, a further Grundoburst 400G machine was purchased and added to the Collex equipment fleet.

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