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Installation Techniques
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Installation Techniques
Vault Access System Reduces Lifting Force for Heavy Access Doors
With the right ergonomic hatch or vault cover system, one crew member can quickly access equipment below the surface and get to the work that matters, safely and securely.
Aug. 19, 2026
communications pipes and wiring
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Standardizing Underground Data to Reduce Utility Strike Risk
Feb. 17, 2026
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Traditional methods of duct bank installations are disruptive, expensive, and visible to the public.
Opinion
Robotic Innovations in Underground Distribution Line Installations
July 3, 2025
Burns and McDonnell
drilling
Installation Techniques
A Comprehensive Look at Horizontal Directional Drilling in Utility Installations
May 1, 2025
Conversation during a tour in one of the 50Hertz substations and switching stations.
austausch
Intelligent Undergrounding
AFRY Implements Cable Planning for SuedOstLink in Germany
March 18, 2024
Figure 1: Hastings, Michigan HDD contractor, Dig-It Inc utility crew installing distribution line in Southwest Michigan.
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Horizontal Directional Drilling: When the Engineer Hands You A Bore Plan
July 8, 2022
Photo by Dmitry Kalinovsky, Dreamstime
A surveyor peers through a theodolite at an outdoor construction site. Underground obstacles must be considered when burying power lines.
Intelligent Undergrounding
Overhead or Underground Transmission? That is (Still) the Question
Feb. 24, 2022
Photo by 69915530, Dreamstime
CEPCI and Haley & Aldrich coordinated with relevant agencies, such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, to protect coastal seagrass areas during project construction phases.
Installation Techniques
Island Connections: Horizontal Directional Drilling in South Carolina
Dec. 15, 2021
Petra
Petra
Intelligent Undergrounding
Petra Unveils the First Tunneling Technology for Utilities to Bore Through the Hardest Rocks in the World
Dec. 14, 2021
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