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HeliCAP® V3.0 – The Premier Tool for Confident Helical Engineering

May 17, 2021

Hubbell Power Systems, Inc (HPS), an international leader in earth anchoring, has released HeliCAP® Helical Capacity Design Software Version 3, a proprietary engineering software for confident helical engineering. It performs powerful calculations on site soil parameters to aid engineers designing foundations, tiebacks, soil nails, and heavy guyed loads. The software […]

Looking For Surplus Steel? You’ve Found Bigfoot!

May 5, 2021

Located in Puyallup, Washington, Bigfoot Pipe & Piling is a leading supplier of new, used, and surplus steel pipe and piling products. We offer pipe ranging in sizes from ¼” to 120” OD, in numerous wall thicknesses, and with various finishes. We serve customers across a wide array of industries, […]

ECA Brings Greater Drilling Depths to U.S., Canada with BAUER MC 96/Berminghammer Lead Setup

May 4, 2021

Equipment Corporation of America (ECA), a leading distributor of specialty foundation equipment, is bringing the unique BAUER MC 96 Duty-Cycle Crane paired with hanging Berminghammer lead assembly to North America to allow its customers to achieve drilling depths of up to 150 feet (45 meters). Both ECA and ECA Canada will offer […]

Legal

Project Delay Strategies for Suppliers and Equipment Rental Companies

May 20, 2020

View the complete article here. By Mark Rice, Esq. What is the Mumbai case? Well, a 123-page Court Opinion on project delays associated with construction of the new US Consular Office in Mumbai, India. It seems that parallel to the project, the US Government and the Republic of India were […]

Indemnification Clauses: Is Yours Enforceable

November 1, 2019

View the complete version here. Heavy equipment rental companies always require those renting their equipment to sign an agreement, and one of the terms in that agreement is very likely to be an indemnification provision. However, enforceability of such a clause will depend on the actual language used to shift […]

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 […]