According to the Government Accountability Office, just over 42 GW or about 13 percent of coal-fired capacity has been retired since 2012 or is planned for retirement by 2025. The coming years will ...

Two of the most important elements in any construction or upgrade project are safety and speed of completion. While one way to increase safety is to eliminate hot work whenever possible, the reality ...

Grooved mechanical piping has been changing the way contractors do business for more than 85 years, but this method of pipe joining is still unknown or misunderstood in some areas of the commercial ...

Quite possibly one of the more challenging problems for engineers to address on construction projects is thermal movement of piping. There are however solutions to mitigate the risks associated with ...

Couplings are most effective in attenuating noise and vibration. Deck penetration: the small size of grooved components makes them ideal for jobs where space is limited. Weight reductions by using ...

Victaulic, a manufacturer of mechanical pipe-joining systems, is exhibiting its line of IACS-approved products that they say reduce the need for vessel maintenance and help make maintenance quicker, ...

Grooved mechanical pipe joining is a no-flame joining technique of forming or cutting a groove in pipe ends, and then joining them with bolted housings around a sealed gasket. Pioneered during World ...

Traditional noise and vibration attenuation methods may be unnecessary for heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems, as well as industrial utility piping and fire protection systems, when ...

Since 1975, Valley Regional Medical Center has offered critical health services across more than 25 specialties to the community in Brownsville, Texas. After decades of use, the hospital’s existing ...

Victaulic pipe joining solutions have played a pivotal role in the development of Plot 9A, an office complex in Manchester, in collaboration with a long-term subcontractor partner. Being up to ten ...

Depending on whom you ask, U.S. Bank Stadium in downtown Minneapolis looks like a Nordic warship or a massive shard of ice. What no one sees upon beholding the 1.75-million-square-feet stadium that ...