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THOMPSON, CONNECTICUT USA, August 31, 2017:
Numa, the world’s leading drilling technology provider, is proud to announce the addition of Mudlogic as its new distributor in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Philippines, and Malaysia. Mudlogic supplies drilling fluids, muds, and specialty products to the mining, water well, foundation, construction, tunneling, and HDD industries in Australia and SE Asia.
Mudlogic offers a growing line of drilling products combined with on-site technical support to help customers in the region reduce overall cost of operation. Mudlogic is renowned for its expertise developed through years of experience working in the field with customers to support their needs.
“Mudlogic keeps abreast of advancements in new technology and changes in the industry so they can provide the region with the best products and advice for the task at hand,” said Ralph Leonard, President of Numa. “Numa is very excited to have teamed with Mudlogic who takes great pride and care in the product line and service they deliver”.
Geoff Wood, General Manager of Mudlogic added, “We are delighted to join the Numa family of distributors. Numa’s world’s leading DTH hammers and bits are the perfect solution for customers in our region looking for the best way to handle any rock drilling needs.”
For more information please visit their website mudlogic.com.au
ABOUT NUMA
Numa provides the world’s leading drilling technology with over 110 DTH Hammer and Bit products serving 11 different industries. Our products are designed to drill vertical, horizontal, and reverse circulation holes from 3½ to 48 inches (89 – 1219 mm) in diameter in hard rock, overburden, or loose strata formations. Having customers in 105+ countries, we have built our customer-centric reputation on providing the highest value in products, performance, and personal service available in the rock drilling industry.
ABOUT MUDLOGIC
The Mudlogic Group is an independent, privately owned specialty drilling fluid and consumables supplier. We have a focus on the Australian and South East Asian region with strategically located offices in Brisbane, Perth, Kalgoorlie and Singapore. Our systems, combined with our on-site technical support and our commercially competitive pricing, will reduce overall cost of operation. We are committed to enabling better processes, offering innovative products for all drilling and special foundation applications as a genuine alternative supplier. This all means that we do better and go further to not only meet, but exceed our customer expectations.
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Ve Group now sells and services Vermeer underground construction equipment
PELLA, Iowa, August 29, 2017 – Vermeer Corporation expands its South America dealer network with the addition of Medellín, Colombia, based Ve Group. With the addition of Vermeer underground construction equipment, Ve Group will be able to provide its Colombian customers with high-quality construction equipment, as well as aftermarket parts and service support.
“Ve Group is committed to its customers,” said Tony Briggs, vice president – sales & distribution at Vermeer. “Dealer Principal Santiago Durango has an established track record and in-market experience in the pipeline installation, maintenance and rehabilitation markets. He puts his customers’ needs first. We are confident he and everyone at Ve Group will do an excellent job of representing Vermeer.”
Over the last 10 years, Ve Group has been instrumental in establishing trenchless technology best practices in South America and has formally trained more than 1,300 people at universities and on jobsites. The team at Ve Group has provided support and onsite expertise on many of the largest underground projects in Colombia and surrounding countries. Santiago is also a founding member of ICTIS, the Colombian International Society for Trenchless Technology chapter.
“Our partnership with Vermeer will be good for contractors in Colombia,” Durango said. “We’ve always been committed to providing our customers with the best solutions at the best value, and the Vermeer utility installation products exceed our high standards. I’ve had the opportunity to work with the team at Vermeer in various roles throughout my career, and I know they will do a great job of working with customers and us. We’re excited to be representing the Vermeer brand.”
To learn more about Ve Group products and services, visit vedelivers.com.
To learn more about Vermeer Corporation, products, the dealer network and financing options, visit vermeer.com.
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Molly & Matt Go to Mears!
After meeting at NASTT’s South Central Regional Chapter event in Arlington, Texas, Sewer Division Director at Mears Group, Inc, Matt Wilkin, invited NASTT Membership Manager, Molly Gallagher, on her very first jobsite visit! Fortunately Matt was going to be in Cleveland, Ohio in early August and they set a date to meet up. Preparations began as Molly had to purchase her first pair of steel toed boots! “Safety First” is the message that Matt continuously drove home, as the mission statement at Mears is to safely deliver innovative, efficient and high quality construction solutions to the energy distribution industry by:
- Providing best value services to our customers
- Developing and retaining the best people in the industry
- Committing to the highest safety and quality standards
- Investing in the best equipment and technology available
Mears has more than $50 million invested personal safety equipment and training in past two years, including AED equipment on their trucks and other locations totaling 5,000 AEDs purchased with training provided to all employees.
Molly met several crew members on two job sites and was invited back anytime.
Molly added, “I want to offer a sincere thank you to Matt Wilkin and Mears for allowing me to see the inter-working of your crews, staff and facility. It was an experience I won’t ever forget. I should have asked to keep the hardhat and stylish vest!”
Click here for more information on NASTT Corporate Member, Mears Group, Inc.
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Tempe, Ariz. – Engineering undergraduates moving into a new Arizona State University residence hall this week will find themselves immersed in a collaborative, technology-laden living and learning community built specifically for engineers.
The Fulton Schools Residential Community at Tooker House is a 1,600-person, co-ed residential community for undergraduate students in ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. The “dorm built for engineers” features on-site digital classrooms, state-of-the-art makerspaces complete with 3D printers, laser cutters, and design tools needed for a broad range of engineering courses and projects.
“Innovation has a new home address at Tooker House,” says Kyle Squires, dean of the Fulton Schools of Engineering. “This mixed-use living and learning facility sets a new standard in engineering education and reflects the breadth and depth of the student experience at the largest engineering school in the nation.”
Situated in a prominent location on the ground floor of the building, the maker lab allows students to work on class projects and explore ideas steps away from their living suites – essentially in their living room. The lab features sliding glass walls that encourage activities to spill outdoors, where exhibition pedestals enable students to present their work and invite discussion and feedback.
The seven-story, co-ed community was built by American Campus Communities on ASU’s Tempe Campus. The residence hall features a 525-seat dining facility, Bluetooth-enabled laundry rooms that notify you when your clothes are dry, advanced green building technology and enough high speed internet bandwidth to accommodate multiple devices per resident.
Elton Forlemu, an ASU civil engineering sophomore serving as a community advisor in Tooker House this fall, says “the work and study spaces are inspiring.”
Last year Forlemu lived off campus and spent hours studying and working in engineering classroom buildings, then traveling about 20 miles home to Glendale. He now envisions himself having late-night discussions in Tooker study spaces and then heading to the makerspace or computer lab to collaborate on a project “before it leaves your head.”
Archtectural firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz’s design approach to Tooker House began with traditional desert architecture concepts as a starting point for creating a sustainable building that both feels appropriate to its context and can endure harsh desert conditions. The community features a complementary color palette of desert tones, using colors and materials that will resist fading and degradation under extreme UV exposure conditions.
The building’s most striking feature, hundreds of vertical perforated louvers on the south façade, each positioned according to a sophisticated algorithm, ensures daytime sunlight control unique to each window’s location. Highly efficient glazing with significant shading capacity allow transparency and daylight without detriment to thermal performance and comfort. Metal window canopies and vertical metal louvers additionally shade windows from direct sunlight while preserving views.
“Last year, I watched the building process from skeleton to finished project,” says Forlemu, who aspires to build hospitals and large business complexes. “As an engineer, it was fascinating. What gets me is the infrastructure – there is such great use of space here.”
Tooker House also will play a prominent role as ASU expands its smart campus capabilities, incorporating sensing and energy efficiency analytics and other Inernet of Things (IoT) technologies not only into the building’s operation, but also into the engineering program’s curriculum.
The new residence hall is named for Diane and Gary Tooker. Diane Tooker is an alumnus of ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College (BAE ’61) and a business owner and former elementary school teacher. Gary Tooker is an alumnus of the Fulton Schools of Engineering (BSE ’62) and a former CEO of Motorola. Together, the couple has made contributions to ASU through the ASU Foundation for more than 30 years, including support for the university’s teaching and engineering programs and the endowed Diane and Gary Tooker Chair for Effective Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Gary Tooker’s contributions to fostering Arizona’s tech sector were recognized with a lifetime achievement award presented at the 2012 Governor’s Celebration of Innovation.
Tooker House is owned and developed by American Campus Communities under the company’s ACE program, a public-private partnership that provides on-campus housing to universities without using their funds or tax-payer dollars. (www.americancampus.com).
About the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, with more than 20,000 enrolled students, is the largest engineering school in the country, offering 39 graduate and 24 undergraduate degree programs.
About ASU Enterprise Partners and the ASU Foundation
ASU Enterprise Partners is a private nonprofit organization based in Tempe, AZ and made up of distinct entities, including the ASU Foundation, that raise, create and invest resources for the benefit of Arizona State University while advocating for and advancing ASU’s mission and brand (giveto.asu.edu).
About Arizona State University
Arizona State University has developed a new model for the American Research University, creating an institution that is committed to access, excellence and impact. ASU measures itself by those it includes, not by those it excludes. As the prototype for a New American University, ASU pursues research that contributes to the public good, and ASU assumes major responsibility for the economic, social and cultural vitality of the communities that surround it.
About American Campus Communities
American Campus Communities, Inc. is the largest owner, manager and developer of high-quality student housing communities in the United States. The company is a fully integrated, self-managed and self-administered equity real estate investment trust (REIT) with expertise in the design, finance, development, construction management and operational management of student housing properties. As of June 30, 2017, American Campus Communities owned 160 student housing properties containing approximately 99,000 beds. Including its owned and third-party managed properties, ACC’s total managed portfolio consisted of 197 properties with approximately 128,700 beds. Visit www.americancampus.com.
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At this year’s No-Dig Down Under the ASTT will be offering three training courses for members of the infrastructure industry. Produced by the NASTT, and adapted for Australasian audiences, these courses offer the chance for infrastructure professionals to learn from leading experts from around the world and develop their skill-set to an international standard.
The courses for 2017 will be the Cured-In-Place Pipe (CIPP) Good Practices Course, Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) Good Practices Course and Pipe Bursting Good Practices Course.
The CIPP course provides an in-depth overview of wastewater mainline and lateral pipe rehabilitation using CIPP and design to job completion. The course is best suited to council, utility and government employees, asset managers seeking new knowledge of rehabilitation techniques, and young professionals working in the trenchless rehabilitation subsector.
The HDD course provides an in-depth overview of Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) and covers six topics: (1) operation and application; (2) equipment and materials; (3) planning, including surface and geological investigations, utility surveys, bore planning, and regulations and permitting; (4) jobsite safety; (5) risk reduction, trouble shooting and mitigation; and (6) design. This course is best suited to council, utility and government employees, civil and geotechnical engineers, beginner drillers, and young professionals working the trenchless installation subsector.
The Pipe Bursting course provides an in-depth overview of pipe bursting and covers four topic areas: (1) the types, methods and applications of pipe bursting; (2) planning and preliminary design of a pipe bursting job; (3) design and construction considerations; and (4) troubleshooting and problem solving.
ASTT’s 12th No-Dig Down Under Conference and Exhibition will be held on the Gold Coast from 12-15 September 2017.
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