Entries Tagged Bertha

In this week's news, Edmonton's Enterprise Group sells its utility construction division, and Bertha is gearing up for another maintenance stop as it reaches 3,000 feet tunneled

In this week's news, a man locating utilities was electrocuted and fell from a bridge; two excavation companies are facing big fines from OSHA for trench violations; and Bertha moves to digging under downtown Seattle

In this week's news, the chair and vice chair of ICUEE are named and tunnel-boring machine Bertha is taking a break from digging

In this week's news, Seattle's Sound Transit is renaming two of its tunnel-boring machines to avoid confusion; Bertha is undergoing planned maintenance before starting the next phase of its project; a man near Green Bay, Wisconsin, was rescued after a trench collapse

In this week’s news, Seattle’s tunneling machine Bertha reaches its maintenance stop, engineering students at Louisiana Tech are honored and CONEXPO debuts radio program

In this week's news, Ditch Witch was named by True Value as its Lawn and Garden Vendor of the Year, the National Utility Contractors Association announced its award winners for safety, and Bertha is back to digging again in Seattle

In this week's news, Bertha is back to tunneling again under Seattle, and Aegion has announced that it will purchase Underground Solutions

In this week's news, Akron, Ohio is undertaking its largest construction project to date, a trenching accident in Las Vegas led to a worker's death, Bertha is undergoing testing to resume digging in December and a Wisconsin-based contractor celebrates a safety milestone

In this week's news, two construction companies were fined for exposing workers to hazards, preparations for Bertha to begin tunneling again are underway and Caterpillar announces layoffs

In this week's news update, Seattle Tunnel Partners lowered the front-end section of the tunneling machine Bertha into an access pit following repairs and the Louisiana Licensing Board for Contractors donated a gift of money to Louisiana Tech University's construction engineering technology program

In this week's news update, Seattle's tunnel boring machine Bertha could start digging again in November and the Global Tunneling and Drilling Equipment Market Report says the markets will expand by 2018