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GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, announces the addition of a new drill hole feature to the StructureScan™ Mini XT – the newest generation of GSSI’s popular all-in-one concrete inspection GPR system. The drill hole feature is a 3D data processing detection algorithm. The algorithm evaluates a user chosen cylindrical area that represents a potential or planned coring location. Scanning for all potential targets within the cylindrical area, the drill hole feature looks for targets that may interfere with a proposed coring location.
Available only within the StructureScan Mini XT user interface, the drill hole indicator is designed for concrete coring applications. In complicated slab situations, the drill hole feature can help users determine the safest location for coring concrete. However, this feature is not a substitute for careful analysis by a trained operator, and GSSI does not recommend that the user depend solely on this algorithm for drill hole interpretation.
Operators should receive special training prior to using this new aid. During training, customers can select areas that they believe are safe for coring while the feature is turned off, and turn the feature on to double check and confirm the initial mark outs.
The new drill hole feature will work with all StructureScan Mini XT’s already in the field, and only requires a software update of the system. New units will come with this user interface pre-installed.
About GSSI
Geophysical Survey Systems, Inc. is the world leader in the development, manufacture, and sale of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, primarily for the concrete inspection, utility mapping and locating, road and bridge deck evaluation, geophysics, and archaeology markets. Our equipment is used all over the world to explore the subsurface of the earth and to inspect infrastructure systems non-destructively. GSSI created the first commercial GPR system nearly 50 years ago and continues to provide the widest range and highest quality GPR equipment available today.
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Denver, January 10, 2018 – Brierley Associates celebrates the addition of Jim Williams, PE. Jim has more than 24-years of experience in underground engineering and construction with special emphasis in Horizontal Directional Drilling. His experience includes complex HDD design, design-build, construction feasibility, risk assessment, execution planning and project management. Jim is a licensed engineer in 15 states including Texas and Florida.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Florida, Jim spent the next 12-years serving as a design and project manager at a Florida based engineering consultancy. In 2005, he founded an engineering firm specializing in HDD and trenchless projects that were executed throughout the US. In 2010, he joined Mears, where he served as the Engineering Manager for one of the largest HDD contractors in the world. While at Mears, Jim helped plan and complete many unique land and marine-based HDD projects, including several award winners.
Within Brierley Associates’ Trenchless Services sector, Jim will work closely with Brian Dorwart, Tom Pullen and Nick Strater. Nick notes “Jim further increases our bench strength in HDD planning and design, and provides us the unique perspective of an experienced contractor. We’ve worked with Jim for years, and we’re truly excited he’s decided to join Brierley Associates.”
Jim will be based in the Texas region, where he will work with our Austin and Houston offices to provide assistance to the energy industry, and other market sectors using HDD and trenchless technologies.
About Brierley Associates
Brierley Associates delivers intrinsic, recognizable value to our owner, A/E firm, and contractor clients by focusing on constructability, efficiency and practicality. Their geotechnical and structural design and consulting services are founded on a keen understanding of our clients’ needs, subsurface conditions, site-specific constraints, and the risks associated with the construction of underground facilities and heavy civil infrastructure projects.
Contact
Brierley Associates | 990 S Broadway, Suite 222, Denver, CO 80209 | 303.703.1405 www.brierleyassociates.com
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Vac-Tron Equipment has released their new CS 1270 trailer vac. This new Compact Industrial Vac Series comes standard with a 1200-gallon debris tank and 580 or 1,000 cfm. It is also available with a hydraulic operated opening and locking rear door, wet/dry filtration cyclone, 30’ x 3” suction hose and tool, and 27 HP or 37 HP Kohler gas engine. Options include 24 HP Kohler diesel engine and reverse pressure.
It is ideal for drill slurry cleanup as well as other projects that call for slurry removal. With the optional reverse pressure, you can collect the slurry, transport, and offload it into another container or simply open the rear door and dump the material quickly.
For more information about the CS 1270 GT or SGT model, contact Vac-Tron Equipment at 888-822-8766 to request a free demo.
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GeoEngineers, Inc. is closing out 2017 by creating a new Pipelines business unit to help its professionals focused on pipeline services collaborate and work across geographic regions even more effectively. GeoEngineers’ busy pipelines practice has ranked in the top half of Trenchless Technology Magazine’s Top 50 Trenchless Design Firms industry survey for the past 10 years.
Principal Mark A. Miller, PE, who works from GeoEngineers Springfield, Missouri office, will lead the new Pipelines Business Unit with support from two team leaders; Principal Jonathan L. Robison, PE, also located in Springfield and Principal Trevor N. Hoyles, PE in the Raleigh, North Carolina office.
GeoEngineers also hired veteran pipeline industry project manager, Gary Castleberry, in November 2017 to help grow its pipelines practice. Castleberry is a senior construction consultant with 17 years of experience in the pipeline industry. He started his career as a drilling mud technician, monitoring drilling mud volume and properties on trenchless construction sites, and worked his way into project management of large pipeline routes. Most recently, Castleberry was a field engineer for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which is comprised of 600 miles of natural gas pipeline extending from West Virginia to North Carolina. Now at GeoEngineers, Castleberry continues to collaborate with project and construction management and engineering staff on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s 28 horizontal directional drills (HDDs) and one Direct Pipe® installation. Other recent projects Castleberry has worked on include the nearly 500-mile-long, award-winning Sabal Trail Pipeline extending from Alabama to Florida with 21 horizontal directional drill (HDD) installations and the New Jersey-New York Expansion Project extending from Linden, New Jersey to Manhattan, New York. The 20-mile project route included nine HDDs, a marine tie-in of two HDDs in the near shore Hudson River waters adjacent to Jersey City, New Jersey, and a landfall HDD tie-in in Manhattan, New York.
Most of GeoEngineers’ business units are organized geographically and tend to serve clients within their regions. The company’s pipeline work is distinctly different. Oil and gas projects are geographically dispersed, and staff are regularly deployed to project sites throughout the country.
“Our work is international. Our clients are everywhere, and our projects are everywhere, so from a structural standpoint, this made sense,” said Miller.
GeoEngineers’ pipeline services include the entire life cycle of trenchless projects—from concept to completion. This includes geohazards analysis and geological desktop studies; pipeline route selection assistance; feasibility analysis of trenchless methods, including geometry, workspace and constructability; and geotechnical investigations before engineering and construction even begins. GeoEngineers continues to assist in pipeline projects with trenchless design engineering, bid specification preparation and pre-construction support, permitting, construction observation with detailed daily reporting, and post-construction documentation.
“The new unit will improve our ability to support clients and give them more consistent relationships and work products,” Miller explained.
GeoEngineers, founded in 1980 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, is an integrated earth science and technology firm with 13 offices in Missouri, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Utah, North Carolina and Louisiana. GeoEngineers specializes in crafting unique environmental, geotechnical, and ecological solutions for the energy, transportation, water and natural resource, federal, and development sectors, and it is currently ranked #223 in the 2017 Engineering News Record Top 500 National Design Firms survey. For more information, please visit www.geoengineers.com.
GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, announces the addition of a new drill hole feature to the StructureScan™ Mini XT – the newest generation of GSSI’s popular all-in-one concrete inspection GPR system. The drill hole feature is a 3D data processing detection algorithm. The algorithm evaluates a user chosen cylindrical area that represents a potential or planned coring location. Scanning for all potential targets within the cylindrical area, the drill hole feature looks for targets that may interfere with a proposed coring location.
