Wayne Lefebre brings 40 years of experience to Matcom
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Construction Data Management
How data is the foundation for pile engineering By Edwin Elmendorp, Kinsmen Group With COVID-19 ravaging through the world, a new norm has emerged that affects every corner of the old way of living. Everyone is adjusting and surviving, but emerging stronger is not so easy to tackle or always possible. The construction industry in general has been slow to innovate for decades, with a growth in productivity of just one per cent and large risks, combined with this unprecedented disruption, the time to lead is now.
PPE for Women in Construction
The right piece - and fit - are critical By Shel Zolkewich Personal protective Equipment (PPE) has become a commonplace term in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, but for the construction industry, it's long been a critical tool of the trade.
Enter the Geopier Rammed Aggregate Pier
The Geopier RAP system for ground improvement By Mark Tigchelaar, P. Eng., GeoSolv Design/Build Ground improvement techniques have become more widely used in Canada over the past decade and owners, developers, contractors and engineers have gradually taken notice of the unique advantages offered by using ground improvement techniques. Of the many ground improvement techniques used in Canada, few have been employed more often than the Geopier Rammed Aggregate Pier® (RAP) system. Since 2006, many thousands of linear kilometres of Geopier RAP elements have been installed in Canada to support industrial, commercial and residential projects, and other applications such as liquefaction mitigation, embankment and wall support, and other structures. Since its introduction in the U.S. over 30 years ago, the Geopier RAP system reinforces a wide variety of soil types including undocumented fill, loose sands, soft/sensitive clays, silts and trapped organics to provide increased bearing capacity and engineered settlement control.
One-Stop Pile Cleaning
Pilecap Inc. offers novel automated pile cleaning solution By Bilal Rana People are always skeptical,” said Thomas Huckabee. “It's been a very tough sell because it almost sounds too good to be true. People have known one way for the past 30 or 40 years. When you tell people there's a way that's safer, faster and costs less, they don't really believe you.”
A New Choice for Deep Foundations
Expander Body International is setting out to fundamentally change the way we think about foundations By Paul Adair The installation of deep foundations has not changed much over the last half century. While there have been tweaks and adjustments to the technology, generally speaking, there are only two different types of piles primarily used today to hold up buildings: end-bearing piles, in which the pile is driven into the ground until it hits bedrock or other bearing materials, and shaft-bearing friction piles, in which the pile generally mobilizes more resistance the deeper it is installed. Ottawa-based Expander Body International (EBI) is setting out to provide a third option and fundamentally change the way industry thinks about foundations.
Fort Frankfurt Project
Trevi faced and won the challenge of carrying out all the foundation works in a rather complex context Submitted by Trevi Group Four Frankfurt is a unique high-rise building in the heart of Frankfurt's city centre in Germany. Thanks to its purchase in 2015, Groß & Partner Grundstücksentwicklungsgesellschaft laid the foundations for the execution of this mega-project.
Rebuilding Cammies Brook Bridge
A simple, cost-effective system provides the best solution for Tripp Marine on a tight jobsite By Barb Feldman In the summer of 2019, Complete Concrete Solutions (CCS) of St. John's, N.L., won a bid to demolish and replace an old bridge crossing a 40-foot-span at the mouth of Cammies Brook in Humber Arm South, about 17 kilometres west of Corner Brook, N.L. Built about 60 years ago, the original bridge was so deteriorated that it wasn't worth repairing, says Pyne Tripp, whose company, Tripp Marine, was subcontracted by CCS to complete the pile driving for the project.
The Art of Tooling and Wear Part Selection and Maintenance
Unexpected conditions and countless variables prove that the choice of tooling and parts is not an exact science By Colleen Birchwood When it comes to drilling a deep foundation into rock or silty soils, selecting the best tooling and wear parts for the job will help to keep a project on track and on budget.
A New Outlook
Watson Drill Rigs charts a new path for the future with the introduction of CAT-based hydraulic rotary machines By Mark Halsall In 2009, one of the best-known names in North America's drilled shaft industry, Watson Drill Rigs, became part of the Trevi Group of companies.
GeoVerra
A new leader in the Canadian surveying and geomatics industry By Deb Draper Combining the geomatics expertise of two leading professional services firms, GeoVerra is now providing solutions in land surveying, mapping, forestry and geospatial technology to diverse industries across Western Canada and Ontario.
Floating Safely
Poseidon Barge keeps marine projects afloat with innovative solutions By Olive Taylor Poseidon Barge takes pride in offering some of the most versatile and innovative portable sectional marine barges in the industry. Since 1995, the U.S.-based company has been renting or selling sectional barges, hydraulic winches and hydraulic propulsion units to heavy highway construction contractors, bridge contractors, dredging contractors, marine contractors and diving contractors.
Junttan Oy acquires Canadian Pile Driving Equipment
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CZM North American headquarters now open
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JD Fields & Co. acquires Alameda Pipe & Steel Co.
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ALL Crane announces Shared Equipment Program
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COVID-19 economic shock will cause global construction output to shrink by 1.4 per cent in 2020
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Construction industry examining ways to improve subway-building costs
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