Using a specialty drill to create mile-and-a-half deep holes, researchers are building a huge “IceCube” at the South Pole, and it has nothing to do with cooling beverages. Their construction of a novel telescope will provide insights into astronomical phenomena.
A pair of 5.3-mile-long railway tunnels were constructed through the Hallandsasen ridge in southern Sweden. The tunnels have a diameter of nearly 35 feet. A special challenge for the project
At the Hope Plantation in North Carolina, the USGS Geologic Discipline (GD) Eastern Earth Surface Processes Team has been drilling a deep stratigraphic corehole. The drilling was conducted using a
Deep foundations specialist Koker Drilling Co., based in Vandalia, Ohio, has been installing drilled shafts for the Cayuga Generating Station Unit #1 and #2 Wet Flue Gas Desulfurization System Retrofit
The United States Air Force maintains several active military installations in southern Nevada. Nellis Air Force Base (AFB) is located on the northeastern edge of Las Vegas, and has been
Singapore Power Co. awarded Siemens/Samsung Engineering & Construction JV a $400 million project to build a 740-megawatt power station extension. A temporary cofferdam sheetpile wall and two permanent sheetpile lines
Each day, more than 14,000 cars and trucks travel the steep and winding approach roads to Hoover Dam. There, they cross the Colorado River by driving across the dam on
Racine Federated Inc., Racine, Wis., and Asahi/America Inc., Malden, Mass., announce the signing of an agreement for the acquisition of the Asahi/America vortex flow meter product lines by Racine Federated.
America West Drilling Supply Inc., Sparks, Nev., now is the West Coast distributor for Atlas Copco high-pressure portable air compressors, offering units from 185 cfm at 150 psi to 1,265
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