Leasing an excavating machine can be more sensible and economical than maintaining one that is deteriorating, according to Kansas Expocentre general manager Jeff Chabon. Shawnee County Commissioners ...

King County is getting ready to use a shaft excavation machine that will be the first of its kind in North America. James W. Fowler Co., the general contractor, is using it to build a 30-foot-diameter ...

For almost as long as he can remember, David Logan has been involved in construction. The son of Murray Logan, owner of the self-named West Palm Beach-based construction company, he can recall going ...

Trimble's SiteVision GPS system has a new variant designed for excavating equipment, SiteVision Excavator. The system uses an in-cab digital site plan in conjunction with its GPS capability to provide ...

From utility trenching and road repairs to foundation removal and site preparation, hydraulic breakers are often deployed in ...

The X-53x maximizes the output of your excavator up to 30% more than machines without a 3D system Topcon Positioning Group announces a new 3D machine control system designed to offer a faster, modular ...

Archaeologists have seen enough 19th-century shell deposits that they can let heavy excavation resume at Seattle’s Pioneer Square waterfront, where workers are digging an access pit to reach buried ...

The largest vehicles in the world won't fit on any highway. They are the enormous bucket-chain and bucket-wheel excavators used in strip mining operations. These giant machines weigh thousands of tons ...

An innovative model allows the excavation rate of tunnel excavation machines in rocks and soils to be predicted by means of simple variables that can be measured in real time. In his PhD thesis ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— The question of what to do with two huge tunnel boring machines that will dig the hole for the Central Subway project in San Francisco is generating more controversy. On ...