Hillside homes and structures have presented a particular challenge for some of our customers. Accessing the ideal location on the steep slope with equipment that’s powerful enough to complete the task can be problematic enough, and, for contractors who prefer to own their equipment and complete this type of work in-house, affordable options are even more difficult to come by.
The navigational lock system for the dam, built during the New Deal civil construction boom of the later 1930s and early ’40s, accommodates 600-foot barges. Drillers are helping the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers open up that bottleneck to barges twice that size.
PVC casing is inexpensive, reliable, never rusts and, used within limits, will make a lifetime well. However, PVC has one major drawback: It is not as strong as steel pipe.
We recently got the results back from our latest email survey, and we found that more than six in 10 contracting firms either strongly agree or agree that the shortage of good help has limited the amount of work they can take on.
Direct push has always produced good samples. But at Horizon Construction and Exploration LLC in Wisconsin, they've found that larger-diameter samples can make things on the jobsite even more interesting.
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