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TEI Rock Drills 2019 Hollow Bar School Information

May 21, 2019

You’re invited! Enrollment is now open for TEI Rock Drills’ Hollow Bar School. Two sessions will be offered this year in order to accommodate growing interest. Students will learn from industry experts through classroom and field training about the process and best practices of installing hollow bar micropiles for soil […]

ECA Promotes Sciortino to Northeast Regional Sales Manager

May 15, 2019

Equipment Corporation of America (ECA), a leading distributor of specialty foundation equipment, has promoted Anthony Sciortino to Northeast Regional Sales Manager. He will manage all of the firm’s product lines in Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Sciortino came to ECA when the company acquired New England Construction […]

Pieresearch® Receives Patent for Revolutionary UNIBAR® Centralizer

May 14, 2019

Pieresearch has long been a leading manufacturer and distributor of centralizer products for reinforcing cage alignment and support in geo-construction construction. The company recently received a U.S. Patent (U.S. Patent No., 10,151,113) for their UNIBAR® Centralizer, a revolutionary alignment device to be used in the installation of tiebacks, soil nails, […]

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Safety & Risk in Construction: The Importance of Technology

July 9, 2018

View the complete article here. Construction is inherently risky to limb and life. This is in part due to the fact a construction site is a mobile factory, set up quickly, dismantled at the end, and without the ergonomic repetition and lengthy planning of a Henry Ford factory or modern […]

Modern Bidding – The Warp Speed Day and its Post Opening Scramble

March 21, 2018

View the complete article here. In the new “Internet of Things” – speed is everything. The latest technology and trained technology-minded teams are key. This is perhaps most true on bid day, an already hectic if not chaotic mad rush to bid opening. Together, the technology of “Apps”, of whole […]

What the Heck is a “Type II” Differing Site Condition?

December 18, 2017

View the complete article here. Any engineer or deep foundation contractor will invariably face changed soils conditions. There is a bevy of Federal and State court cases, books, and war stories about when, expecting bedrock at 30 feet, the project team encounters “running sand”, baymud, or other gremlins and costs […]