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THE ON-LINE NEWS AND INFORMATION SERVICE FOR THE TRENCHLESS INDUSTRY. MEDIA PARTNER OF THE UNITED KINGDOM RENCHLESS SOCIETY FOR TRENCHLESS TECHNOLOGY ORKS T AND SUPPORTING THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR TRENCHLESS TECHNOLOGY (ISTT) ISSUE 138W FEBRUARY 2018 SPONSORS LINKS VERMEER INTRODUCES THE D8X12 NAVIGATOR HDD TRACTO-TECHNIK RIG INSPIRING TRENCHLESS TECHNOLOGIES Click for link to Story for the underground installation and trenchless renewal of pipelines TORO and American Augers Directional Drills Auger Boring Equipment Tooling & Drill Rods Drilling Fluids Recycling & Mixing Systems Digital Location Equipment Hammerhead piercing, bursting & ramming products are used by contractors worldwide to install or replace fibre, communication, water, sewer and gas lines with minimal disruption to landscapes, structures and traffic flow. 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SPOTLIGHT ON TRENCHLESS click here INDUSTRY, COMPANY AND INSTITUTION click here Ditch Witch PIPE JACKING, MICROTUNNELLING etc. click here UK & Ireland IMPACT HAMMER TECHNOLOGIES click here All Terrain ‘ROCK’ Directional Drills, HDD Training, Mixing/ HORIZONTAL DIRECTIONAL DRILLING click here Recycling Systems, HDD Drilling Fluids, Drill Pipe, Backreamers, PIPELINE REHABILITATION click here Tri-Hawk Tooling, HDD Guidance Systems, SUPPORT EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES click here For the latest Utility Locators, Vac Systems, Trenchers, EVENTS AND MEETINGS click here NEWS click here Vibratory Ploughs. © 2018 NoDig Media Services CURRENT ISSUE CONTENTS (A full index of previous articles is available online click here) ARTICLES BY NEWS/TECHNOLOGY SUBSECTION PAGE SPONSORS LINKS Click Logo for weblink SPOTLIGHT ON TRENCHLESS Trenchless Technology – Specialist Or Mainstream? link 3 INDUSTRY, COMPANY AND INSTITUTION NEWS A Year Of Celebrations Ahead For C.J. 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EVENTS DIARY link 36 Suppliers of Directional Drills, AXIS® Guided Boring System, Mixing Systems, Digital Location Systems, Rock Drilling, Tooling and Accessories, Impact Moles and Vacuum Excavation systems across the UK and Ireland. Ditch Witch UK & Ireland All Terrain ‘ROCK’ Directional Drills, HDD Training, Mixing/ Recycling Systems, HDD Drilling To submit editorial for Trenchless Works Issue 139 Fluids, Drill Pipe, Backreamers, please email copy and pictures to: Tri-Hawk Tooling, HDD Guidance Systems, [email protected] by 10 March, 2018 Utility Locators, Vac Systems, Trenchers, For TW Sponsorship and advertising rates click here Vibratory Ploughs. © 2018 NoDig Media Services SPOTLIGHT ON TRENCHLESS INDUSTRY VIEWS AND COMMENTS DESIGNED TO PROMOTE DISUSSION TRENCHLESS TECHNOLOGY – SPECIALIST OR MAINSTREAM? SPONSORS LINKS hould the term Trenchless Technology exist anymore? A useful Click Logo for weblink S term 30 years ago when the new technologies were just emerging and ISTT and the early No-Dig conferences supported their growth, now it has the opposite effect. The term now positions the technologies for non-disruptive utility installation and rehabilitation as specialist alternatives for use when conventional open trench working is not feasible. After 30 years of growth and increasing market penetration this needs to change. It is time to drop the term ‘trenchless technology’ and move into the mainstream of utility works. Being the first, default, choice of method will propel the industry from the shadows into the TRACTO-TECHNIK leading position in the market resulting in more growth, more market INSPIRING TRENCHLESS TECHNOLOGIES share and long-term success. for the underground installation and Over those same 30 years we have seen keyhole surgery become the trenchless renewal of pipelines ‘norm’ in many medical procedures to the extent that it is now perceived as routine and not worthy of an exotic title. There are many Tom Sangster, parallels and in effect we now undertake keyhole surgery for utilities. Downley Consultants. The reality is that this industry provides underground pipe and cable installation and rehabilitation to TORO and its customers. This does not need to be embellished by a fancy term such as trenchless technology; it American Augers Directional Drills is not the alternative, it is simply the way it is done. Auger Boring Equipment How can we achieve this change? Do we drop the terms ‘trenchless technology’ and ‘no dig’? Tooling & Drill Rods Necessary perhaps but not in itself sufficient. Like all marketing we must focus on the benefits from using our techniques; not the benefits from trenchless technology but the benefits from directional drilling, from microtunnelling, from rehabilitation to extend the life of existing assets rather than replacing them, in other words – from being smarter. We are not short of benefits including: competitive cost, less disruption, faster working times, less environmental impact, better Drilling Fluids performance and optimum management of assets amongst others. What more do we need? Who in Recycling & Mixing Systems their right mind would dig? Digging can only be the last resort when no other option is feasible. Digital Location Equipment We already have a good example to follow. In Germany the Deutsche Schlauchlinertag (German [tube] Lining Day) is held annually, and there are many IKT Workshops on specific technologies or applications, for example rehabilitation of sewer force (pressure) mains. The word ‘grabenlos’ (trenchless) does not appear at all, there are simply methods to achieve objectives. Is it any coincidence that Germany is the largest market in Europe for many of our technologies? I think not. What is really necessary is for the industry leadership to drive this change. Will we need an international society or national societies? Will we need No-Dig conferences? What would be their purpose? They will have a role, but to adapt to this new reality they (and their organisers) will need Hammerhead piercing, bursting to become more outward-focused and concentrate on serving their members’ needs not their own. & ramming products are used by contractors worldwide to This will mean a focus on newer markets where promotion and education on trenchless technology install or replace fibre, as a concept remains necessary. This remains necessary even in the more mature markets such as communication, water, sewer North America, Europe and certain Asia-Pacific countries. It is a constant source of amazement that and gas lines with minimal so few people, even in these ‘mature’ regions, know nothing about our technologies or their disruption to landscapes, benefits. This is a massive failure to educate, to communicate, and to look outwards. structures and traffic flow. In the mature markets there is a need for high-level technical conferences at the leading edge of innovation and development, and with longer intervals between them so that there really is some innovation to debate and promote. This is the leadership that the industry needs. To continue as at present actually works against the best interest of the industry by maintaining the perception of ‘specialist’ techniques for use when the ‘normal’ methods are not feasible. Suppliers of Directional Drills, The mainstream, central position in the underground utility engineering sector beckons as society AXIS® Guided Boring rejects the outmoded open trench methods of the last century. We need to seize the opportunity or System, Mixing Systems, Digital Location Systems, Rock remain in the specialist box for ever. If the industry leaders cannot or will not take us there we Drilling, Tooling and should take the initiative ourselves. Some major players in the industry are already doing this. We Accessories, Impact Moles and should all join them to create the new mainstream that will benefit this industry, our customers and Vacuum Excavation systems society as a whole. Perhaps it is time to found the International Society for