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New Event from DFI for Helical Piles, Tiebacks, and Anchors

March 15, 2019

Event Overview Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and Helical Pile World (HPW) are teaming up to showcase the helical pile and tieback industry’s dedication to producing high-quality, safe, reliable and cost-effective foundation solutions for a variety of foundation and utility application challenges. This first-of-its-kind event will include a structured technical program, […]

Course Available: Strengthen Concrete, Timber, and Steel Using Carbon FRP

March 8, 2019

Registration still open for the QuakeWrap Spring 2019 Certification Course, April 1 – 3, 2019 in Tucson, Arizona. This comprehensive, three-day course teaches your team how to strengthen concrete, timber and steel using carbon FRP at the structural repair level. This course focuses on QuakeWrap’s Wet Layup method of epoxy saturating/bonding to […]

See NUMA at BAUMA 2019

March 5, 2019

Exhibiting in Hall C4.639 of the USA Pavilion Numa, the world’s leading drilling technology provider, will be exhibiting at bauma 2019, the 32nd edition of the world’s largest trade fair taking place in Munich, Germany from April 8-14, 2019. Numa will be exhibiting in Hall C4.639 of the USA Pavilion […]

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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 […]