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24 / Complicated Cable Boring in Boston Harbor
ECI Drilling International recently completed two HDD installations in Boston of conduits
for cable that replaced old power cable service at an essential wastewater treatment plant.
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January 2020 / Vol. 75 No. 1
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DEPARTMENTS
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2020 Outlook and Utility &
Communications Construction Update
The United States construction market is steady and
growing slightly amidst the second-longest period
of sustained economic expansion since 1964. Despite
fears of an impending slowdown, FMI Research
projects that construction put-in-place will increase
year-over-year by slightly less than 1 percent in
2019 (down from 3 percent in 2018).
Two Cities Add HDPE for Reliable
Water Infrastructure
The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.
This is a dependable indicator in psychology, but
two cities in Minnesota found this to be especially
true when applied to pipe performance.
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Global Pipeline Construction
Outlook 2020
For those who thought producer retrenchment in
U.S. shale basins, global trade wars or middling
commodity prices would stop pipeline expansion
dead in its tracks: Move along, folks. There's nothing
to see here.
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CIGMAT Report: Transferring
Technology from Control Studies
to Actual Applications
At the Center for Innovative Grouting Materials and
Technology, a joint university-industry consortium,
at the University of Houston, real-time monitoring
is a focus area of research related to oil, gas, water
and wastewater infrastructures, bridges, foundations
and pipelines maintenance.
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PIPELINE &
UTILITIES
OUTLOOK
Utility & Communications Update
Complicated Cable Boring
in Boston
PLCA Tackles
Industry Challenges
Rehab Tech Tips
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REHABTECHNOLOGY
PLCA Effectively Tackles
New Industry Challenges
Members of the Pipe Line Contractors Association
(PLCA) closed out a strong year in 2019, but the year's
workload totals fell short of the previous year.
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Rehab News
ON THE COVER
Duluth, Minn., fusion crews lower
a McElroy fusion carriage into the
ditch for a butt fusion job in the
Lakeside neighborhood.
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