Equipment maintenance is never a trivial matter, but when it comes to directional drilling, it perhaps carries a bit of extra weight.That’s...
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Hydroexcavating Company Expands Into Cleaning Services
While Baker Hydro-Excavating focuses on hydroexcavating in the oil, gas and utility industries, the company has found other ways to serve its...
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Hydroexcavation Companies Come Together to Help Each Other
In Calgary there are more than 50 hydroexcavators. Most are owned by Badger Daylighting and Cordy Environmental, but there are smaller operations...
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Contractor Rethinks Pipeline Bore, Saving $10 Million
Using a three-in-one approach, Garney Construction has successfully bored a single tunnel through rock and beneath an interstate highway, two rail lines...
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Educating the Next Generation of Trenchless Pioneers
Last month, trenchless professionals from around the world traveled to Denver, Colorado, for the North American Society of Trenchless Technology (NASTT) No-Dig...
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Tunneling Under DC
The District of Columbia has three monster tunnel boring machines doing work beneath the ground as its Clean Rivers Project marks the halfway...
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Alternative Forms of Excavation Gain Popularity in U.S.
Ron Lindquist sat in a hydroexcavation seminar at the 2015 Water & Wastewater Equipment, Treatment & Transport Show in late February and...
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Rehabilitating Wastewater Infrastructure in Glacier National Park No Small Task
The National Park Service was modernizing cabins and rehabilitating the wastewater infrastructure in Glacier National Park in Columbia Falls, Montana. HK Contractors...
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Pipe Bursting Key to Arlington National Cemetery Water Main Replacement
At the beginning of the Civil War, Union soldiers occupied Arlington, Va., realizing that the location offered a great strategic location, just...
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New Excavation Shoring Association Formed to Promote Safety
An all-new international shoring safety trade association — the North American Excavation Shoring Association (NAXSA) — was recently formed to help promote...
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5 Toughest Pipe Bursting Jobs
You shimmy into cramped trench boxes and maneuver heavy equipment into tight quarters, all in the name of pipe bursting. The no-dig...
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Dressing for the Cold: A Primer on Layering Clothing
If the recent polar vortex that invaded most of the country says anything about service workers, it’s that you are hardy folk....
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Seizing Opportunity Through Hydroexcavation
Seth Church, his family and partners all decided to use the experience of working in the cold weather to expand their company...
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Giant Excavator Finds a Home in Texas
Imagine a bucket that, when placed on the back of a semi-truck, sits 20 feet high, requires power lines to be lifted...





















