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Hi-Vac Aquatech Jumbo Combo jet/vac unitHi-Vac Corporation’s Aquatech Jumbo Combo features a 5,250 cfm, 27-inch Hg blower and is suited for large-diamater...

It can be hard to know when it’s time to stop and rest. Workers are often pushing to get the job done...

In just four years, Ken Sugawara and his partners have seen their company grow from a startup operation to one that bought...

If not for a homeowner’s resistance to having a driveway dug up, Joel Colgrove Jr. might still be laying water and sewer...

Some oil industry contractors strive to build a diverse customer base to mitigate the risk of over-reliance on one particular client. At...

While working for another company, Mike Arme saw a need for a safer and more efficient way of locating utilities, and wanted...

For years, infiltration washed substrate into a double-barrel 48-inch reinforced concrete culvert under Duval Road in Starke, Florida, causing sinkholes. The road...

Plastic main and service pipe is well accepted in the industry and has some advantages. But it also has a major disadvantage...

Federal Signal to acquire Truck Bodies and Equipment InternationalFederal Signal announced that it intends to acquire Truck Bodies and Equipment International for...

Mission critical work is defined as anything deemed vital to a business or project. That pretty much describes what AEI Subsurface does...

When Pat Aubin founded AEI Subsurface more than four decades ago, the company’s primary focus was site preparation for residential construction projects....

Adam Teets can sympathize with contractors using an inspection camera to discover a problem in the line.“You see the object causing the...

The National Park Service was modernizing cabins and rehabilitating the wastewater infrastructure in Glacier National Park in Columbia Falls, Montana. HK Contractors...

Just about any contractor can learn how to run machines effectively and efficiently. But figuring out how to use equipment to solve...

San Francisco’s push for faster high-speed internet got a big boost last week, when a city supervisor introduced a bill that would...

Beset by difficult challenges in its early years, Supreme Vac is now a veteran player in the oilfield services industry in Alberta....

Trenchless excavation contractor Bill Heinselman has zero tolerance for subcontractors who don’t show up on jobs. Yet ironically enough, he owes such...