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Uses for Electric Submersible pumps
Uses for Electric Submersible pumps
A submersible pump is actually a sealed motor that is fixed in pump body and the total assembly is absorbed in the fluid that requires to be pumped. This versatile pump can be used in many scenarios with a key feature being that it can provide a significant amount of lifting power.
 
Trench Collapses
Trench Collapses
Trenches have been used and formed by people for hundreds of years for many different purposes including, agricultural uses, and installing utilities and pipelines. The construction of trenches is not simply digging in the soil, as it comes with risks and hazards.
 
Basement Propping
Basement Propping
A strong basement construction of any building is necessary to provide a foundation strength that is required to keep the building standing through all types of weather and other environmental challenges. The proper planning of your basement construction must be done before you actually start the construction as small mistakes in form of collapses could cause you a loss for many coming years.
 
Hydrostatic testing
Hydrostatic testing
Hydrostatic testing is the most commonly used procedure for checking the performance of pressures vessels. This testing is especially brought into play to verify pressure vessels like cylinders, boilers and tubes either they have leaks or manufacturing flaws that may result in leakage.
 
Formwork - A Definition of Formwork and Falsework
Formwork - A Definition of Formwork and Falsework
There is often confusion between the difference of Formwork and Falsework, especially for people who are new to the construction industry. To give you a better understanding the theoretical descriptions are as follows:
 
Formwork – the Versatile uses of Formwork Equipment
Formwork – the Versatile uses of Formwork Equipment
Frami is the preferred option for Groundforce Easiform which is a small panel formwork system that is designed for economical forming of foundations and small areas. This Formwork equipment is extremely easy to use and can be erected very quickly by hand.
 
Formwork – Stay Safe in Construction
Formwork – Stay Safe in Construction
As with any area of construction, safety is paramount, so you have to be alert and aware of what’s going on around you as well as what work you are doing and how that might impact on others.
 
Formwork - A Guide
Formwork - A Guide
Get to grips with the formwork equipment you need for your construction project with this simple guide.
 
Top 5 tips for using a Formwork in Construction
Top 5 tips for using a Formwork in Construction
When it comes to constructing a building either for a home or a large spacious building for a business, every single step must be taken up to the standards in order to guarantee a safe and sound building to be utilised for the required purpose.
 
Piling – getting it right
Piling – getting it right
Piling is one of the most important elements when it comes to preparing a construction site.
 
Piling – What Exactly Is Piling
Piling – What Exactly Is Piling
Perhaps you’re new to the world of construction…if so, it always helps to have a useful reference guide as to what the construction terms actually mean. Here’s a guide to piling.
 
Piling Equipment – Product Overview
Piling Equipment – Product Overview
Piling Equipment features in many different construction projects, whether you are driving, extracting, or dealing with foundation problems, Piletec can offer you total piling solutions. Our guide below directs you through the benefits and methods of some of our vast product range.
 
Interesting facts about Piling Equipment
Interesting facts about Piling Equipment
When it comes to construction, using piling equipment is of high importance, it plays a major role in construction projects, and various building sites need them at some point during the build.
 
Groundforce – Not just Shoring Equipment
Groundforce – Not just Shoring Equipment
Many companies within the recession are going through fundamental changes to ensure that the business elements are cemented firmly to allow the best possible product and service for their customers whilst maintaining a profitable business.
 
What to look for when Hiring from a Construction Supplier
What to look for when Hiring from a Construction Supplier
Choosing the correct construction supplier plays an important role in the success of the job in hand. There are various factors to consider when offering a tender, some of which will be covered throughout this article. The three main considerations are as follows:-
 
Safety First – Excavation and Trenching
Safety First – Excavation and Trenching
When dealing with an excavation or trenching, safety must be of the highest importance. The following article discusses the dangers and protection when working with excavations or trenches.
 
Pump Hire – Which Pump to use
Pump Hire – Which Pump to use
Understand which pumps to use in different situations within the construction industry. With various features and benefits of different pumps the descriptions below will help you make your decision.
 
Stoppers - A Guide to Size and Use
Stoppers - A Guide to Size and Use
Inflatable cylinder stoppers are used in construction during various phases of site preparation and in the building of long-distance supply lines. They can be used to test for both air and water leakage as well as to temporarily plug piping segments during repair.
 
What is Pressure testing
What is Pressure testing
Want to know the basics of pressure testing? It’s always useful to start from the beginning to understand what the term means. Pressure testing explained follows.
 
Basic Requirements of starting the process of Checking air pressure in Pipes
Basic Requirements of starting the process of Checking air pressure in Pipes
Pneumatic and Hydrostatic pressure testing can be hazardous and unsafe therefore the procedures need to be carried out with immense attention and with all precautionary measures.
 
Survey Equipment – A Revolutionary Design
Survey Equipment – A Revolutionary Design
Plans for a revolutionary rotating skyscraper in Dubai have just been revealed and the engineers behind the project will require top of the range survey equipment for a project of this magnitude.
 
Survey Equipment - The Importance of Shoring Piling and Formwork in Construction
Survey Equipment - The Importance of Shoring Piling and Formwork in Construction
When it comes to construction, the need to be precise is, of course, of paramount importance. As such, survey equipment and tools such as shoring, piling, stoppers and formwork are imperative equipment in the construction industry.
 
Survey equipment – the foundation of a successful project
Survey equipment – the foundation of a successful project
Taking the time to use professional survey equipment and surveyors could be the key to your project’s success.
 
Importance of safety in trench excavation
Importance of safety in trench excavation
Trenching and excavation activities are executed million of times around the world. Excavation is one of the most risky kinds of jobs in the construction industry and it becomes more dangerous while trench excavation is performed.
 
Survey Equipment - The Real Risk of Flooding in the UK
Survey Equipment - The Real Risk of Flooding in the UK
The tangible risk of flooding in the UK is extremely high and the importance of using top quality survey equipment and peripheries like shoring, piling and stoppers is clear amidst reports that one in ten homes is at risk of flooding in the United Kingdom.