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Press Releases

AMEC acquires leading US engineering and environmental services company MACTEC

May 20, 2011 rockman 1

London, United Kingdom (18 May 2011) – AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, announces today that it has agreed to buy MACTEC, a leading US engineering and environmental services company, from its private equity and other individual shareholders for a cash consideration of US$280 million. Completion is subject to regulatory approval and is expected by the end of June 2011. [Editor] Click through for the rest of the press release from AMEC. [/Editor]

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A welder attaches protective shields to one of the two 21-foot-diameter tunnel-boring machines at the north end of the project near Husky Stadium. The entrance to the northbound tunnel is at upper right.
Project Related

Tunnel boring to begin on light-rail link in Seattle

May 20, 2011 rockman Comments Off on Tunnel boring to begin on light-rail link in Seattle

This week, Seattle’s Sound Transit will start drilling a $2 billion, three-mile light-rail tunnel to connect the University of Washington, Capitol Hill and Westlake Center. The first TBM will be christened today near UW’s Husky […]

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Comings and Goings

Rock mechanics legend Bernard Amadei honored for involvement in engineers without borders

May 16, 2011 rockman Comments Off on Rock mechanics legend Bernard Amadei honored for involvement in engineers without borders

Bernard Amadei, the founding president of Engineers Without Borders – USA and the co-founder of the Engineers Without Borders-International network, received an honorary doctor of science degree at Clarkson University’s 118th Commencement last weekend. Amadei […]

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Weekend CUP

Weekend Super Catch-Up Post

May 13, 2011 rockman Comments Off on Weekend Super Catch-Up Post

It’s Friday, you weren’t going to do any work today anyway, were you? I had some problems with my system for tracking articles and headlines to post to GeoPrac, so this is me cleaning house […]

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EPS Geofoam Project Second Largest in US

May 13, 2011 rockman Comments Off on EPS Geofoam Project Second Largest in US

DENVER, CO–(Marketwire – May 10, 2011) – ACH Foam Technologies supplied an estimated 2.1 million cubic feet of EPS Geofoam to the second largest Geofoam project in the US: the West Valley TRAX line. Utah Transit Authority (UTA) constructed the light rail line to a new hub in West Valley near Salt Lake City. Projected to cost $200 million and span 5.1 miles, the project required 639 truckloads or 750,000 cubic yards of the lightweight fill material. ACH Foam delivered the first truckloads in Febuary 2009; Geofoam installation was complete by January 2010. [Editor] Click through for the rest of the press release from ACH Foam Technologies. [/Editor]

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