Search Results: 'Black & Veatch'

Trenchless solutions serve Red River Valley needs
30 October, 2023
Key infrastructure to meet vital water supply needs in Red River Valley, North Dakota, were met with the help of trenchless tunnelling. The project is described by Victoria Encapera, Aswathy (Ash) Sivaram, Kurt Ronnekamp and Kayla Christopher of Black & Veatch

Packed schedule in Boston
28 June, 2023
TTNA previews the packed program for RETC 2023, in Boston, MA, in June

Small bores, big impacts
28 June, 2023
Views shared with TTNA on the trends and advances in the trenchless and microtunneling markets

Tackling Toronto’s CSO Woes
08 September, 2021
Toronto’s sewers are overloaded. Combined sewer overflows frequently spill into Lake Ontario, local rivers and streams. A major clean-up involving three separate tunnelling projects and more besides, is in progress. Julian Champkin reports

Wet weather ready
26 May, 2020
The Don River and Central Waterfront Project will help improve Toronto’s waterways by reducing CSOs. The project team provides an update on the Coxwell Bypass Tunnel

Navigating live tunnel connections
30 September, 2019
Connecting the Des Plaines Tunnel System to the McCook Reservoir is one of the latest – and more challenging – components of TARP. Report by Cary Hirner and Faruk Oksuz of Black & Veatch, and Carmen Scalise of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

Gap year
01 March, 2019
Tunnelling begins this year for the City of Louisville. Nicole Robinson reports on the Waterway Protection Tunnel

No dig
26 March, 2018
The NASTT holds its annual show in March

Investigate and implement
17 October, 2017
Toronto is preparing to build 22km of tunnels to improve waterways in the Great Lakes Basin. Mark Bruder of R.V. Anderson Associates Limited, Daniel Cressman of Black & Veatch, and Robert Mayberry with the City of Toronto outline the geotechnical investigation program for the Don River and Central Waterfront Wet Weather Flow System

Fibreglass Jacking Pipe Upgrades Las Vegas Sewers
18 April, 2017
The Paradise Whitney Interceptor project is a 13-mile (21km) gravity sewer to increase capacity in the Las Vegas area. Built through sticky clay and collapsible soils, crews faced challenging work around existing underground utilities. This article looks at the fibreglass reinforced polymer mortar pipe chosen for the new installation

Waterfront work
03 November, 2016
With a focus on improving the water quality and reducing combined sewer overflows, Toronto Water is undertaking its largest tunnelling programme to date. Nicole Robinson reports on the design of the Don River and Central Waterfront Project.

Myth Busting
28 April, 2016
With increased drought conditions in areas of desert climate as well as more public awareness about groundwater depletion in more verdant regions, conversations across North America focus on clean water and how it will be sourced, shared and supplied

The trouble with tunnel vision
27 April, 2016
While a narrow mental focus can help some people ignore distractions to achieve amazing results, anyone who physically experiences tunnel vision knows that losing peripheral vision limits what you can see.

What lies beneath
24 June, 2015
The WTP4 project in Austin, Texas, is now providing clean drinking water to Austin area residents and businesses. With more than two million man hours worked on WTP4 and with the project completed, technical journalist Rhian Owen looks at the two separate contracts during the last year of construction and what led to the successful execution.

South by Southwest
12 December, 2013
The southern states grapple with water supply as drought conditions worsen and stormwater from flash floods cause damage for homes and businesses

Cleaner Columbus
22 November, 2012
The spine of Colombus’s Wet Weather Management Plan, OARS, will be operational by the last day of 2014, by EPA consent decree. Technical journalist Rhian Owen checks up on progress

Austin attracts the industry
13 August, 2012
The Southwest and the Rocky Mountain regions aren’t booming with potential for major tunnelling projects. But water scarcity keeps the industry working underground, reports Nicole Robinson

Intercept the flow
26 June, 2012
The spine of Colombus’s Wet Weather Management Plan, OARS will be operational by the last day of 2014, by EPA consent decree. Technical journalist Rhian Owen checks up on progress

Midwest meets demands for sewers
14 June, 2012
The tunneling industry in the Midwestern states is enjoying a steady flow of work as sewer projects come on stream. Technical journalist Rhian Owen interviews David Egger, director of Black & Veatch’s heavy civil group

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