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Getting to the Bottom of It: underground report
by
Jeff Griffin
| July 2012
| under
  • Your Business

Projects to build and expand broadband networks often bring construction to established neighborhoods, challenging project owners and contractors to build underground networks with minimal disruption of routine activities and limited surface damage.

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Underground Report
by
Jeff Griffin
| March 2007
| under
  • Your Business

Extending broadband services to more customers is a priority for telecommunications and cable television companies who are locked in a fierce battle to consolidate and expand their shares of the high-speed Internet market and, with it, other bundled services; fiber optic technology is a key element

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Digging with the BIG DOGS
by
Jeff Griffin
| November 2006
| under
  • Miscellaneous

An underground report

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Report From the Underground
by
Jeff Griffin
| September 2005
| under
  • Your Business

Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) is an innovative “trenchless” construction procedure. It has been in use for a dozen years to make trenchless installations of cable, conduit and duct in areas where surface improvements or crowded utility easements make excavation impractical or impossible.

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Subterranean Trouble
by
Jeff Griffin
| September 2004
| under
  • Safety

Earlier this year, routine activities came to an abrupt halt at San Bernardino Valley (Calif.) College when a construction crew excavating with a backhoe struck a power cable, causing a small explosion that knocked out a campus transformer.

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Vacuum Excavators: Inhaling the Toughest Jobs
by
Jeff Griffin
| July 2004
| under
  • Your Business

With little fanfare, vacuum excavation equipment has begun making an impact on the way outside electrical infrastructure is constructed and maintained.

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The Dirt On Ground Rods
by
Chris Rempe
| May 2004
| under
  • Safety

If you’re reading this, chances are you have enjoyed the sense of accomplishment that comes from driving an 8-foot long, mostly steel rod into the earth and connecting a ground wire to it. It’s tough work.

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Underground Construction
by
Jeff Griffin
| September 2003
| under
  • Your Business

Electrical contractors who perform utility work have been burying electrical cable for years.

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Bonding the Hot-Water Piping System
February 2003
| under
  • Residential

A simple change in construction and plumbing methods over a period of years may have resulted in many water-piping systems being inadequately bonded to the electrical system.

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Underground Construction
by
Jeff Griffin
| November 2002
| under
  • Your Business

Utility providers routinely bury electrical and communications cable and the conduit in which cable is placed for protection. And for years, trenching and vibratory plowing were the primary methods contractors used for underground construction.

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