Search Results: 'Black & Veatch'

Overlooking the south
20 December, 2011
Compared to other regions of the U.S. and Canada there are few large-scale projects in the southeast, but that may not be the case for long, Nicole Robinson reports

A delicate dance
17 August, 2011
As the City of Austin bids the Jollyville transmission main for its new water treatment plant, Nicole Robinson examines the many precautions being taken in this sensitive environment

Small diameter, big impact
13 April, 2011
Building the Bi-County Water Tunnel will bridge a gap in the east coast water system. One of the two drives has been completed for the compact, but deep alignment. Robbins technical writer Desiree Willis reports

Rebuild for hardrock
14 February, 2011
Robbins technical writer Desiree Willis looks at the workhorse TBM that bore one job after another

Wrapping up four decades of Windy City tunneling work
11 February, 2011
Chicago’s landmark CSO program, TARP, advances to the final phases as reservoirs and tunnel connections take shape. A report by Kevin Fitzpatrick, MWRDGC, supervising civil engineer; Justine Gembala, MWRDGC, senior civil engineer; Cary Hirner, Black & Veatch, project manager and Faruk Oksuz, Black & Veatch associate vice president

CSO solutions in Ohio
11 February, 2011
As 2010 came to a close, Columbus, Ohio saw groundbreaking for the OARS project—the first of three large diameter sewer tunnels the city is building over a 40-year schedule to reduce combined and sanitary sewer overflows, Nicole Robinson reports

What they don’t know they don’t know
11 February, 2011

Sorting out the sewers
11 February, 2011
Water and wastewater needs, particularly updating the aging sewer systems of the Midwest, are providing tunnelling work, but that’s almost the only work to be found here, reports Nicole Robinson