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South Africa is the third largest economy on the continent and plays a decisive role as an economic and geographical gateway to sub-Saharan Africa. Over the past two decades, the South African Republic has transformed into an industrialized country that is growing steadily. South Africa's construction industry in particular is growing dynamically due to increasing urbanization and continuing population growth. The necessary maintenance and development of the underground infrastructure for supply and disposal opens up numerous perspectives for the use of trenchless technologies. In order to ...
TRACTO-TECHNIK UK are the 2018 winners of the prestigious Utility Pipeline Technology Award from the Pipeline Industries Guild.
German water provider Beckum GmbH delivers 6 million cubic metres of potable water via a 1,050 km long pipe network and 33,500 property service connections straight to 135,000 residents and plants. The utility provides further 3.5 million cubic metres of water for re-distributors like neighbouring municipalities, water boards etc. In this way, an area exceeding 1,000 square kilometres within the district of Warendorf and also parts of the districts Soest and Gütersloh enjoy an all-round drinking water service.
The first traces of settlement in the small Austrian community of Elixhausen near Salzburg in Austria stem way back from the uppermost Stone Age. Findings of stilt houses from the third millennium b. c. are followed by settlement and grave finds from the Bronze Age and the younger Iron Age almost without gap. In Roman times, great estates and mansions were allocated to privileged places; archaeological evidence or written records for the Middle Ages are not available, however. Elixhausen was first mentioned by name as around the year 1000. With the beginning of the modern era, the development ...
In Crossgar, a small town about 25 km south of Belfast in Northern Ireland, the staff of Bóthar Drilling Ltd, St. Mullins, faced a major task at the end of 2017: As subcontractors of McNicholas Construction, Elstree, they were to install two ND 125 (SDR 11) gas pipelines with a total length of 185 m, using the HDD method. The client was the gas distribution company Phoenix Natural Gas from Belfast. Not a big deal at first glance - but a real challenge at second glance due to the prevailing soil conditions. In addition, a river had to be undercrossed along each bore path. Other companies ...
