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 ...

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 ...

The GX-55 is a control box for Topcon’s 2D and 3D excavation-control systems. Designed to work with Topcon’s SiteLink 3D software package, the GX-55 can be used as a part of 2D, 3D or 3D-indicate ...

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 ...

LEIMERT PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A retirement party was held Friday morning for the massive piece of machinery that helped bore two tunnels for the Crenshaw-LAX Line. The 950-ton machine, nicknamed ...

A tunnel boring machine has completed the excavation of a new, $250 million water tunnel connecting Brooklyn to Staten Island. The new, deeper tunnel — called a siphon — will convey drinking water ...

What does the biggest digging machine in the world have to do with the Singularity? The Bagger 288 represents a masterful symphony of cutting-edge technology, brought together by the best minds of ...

“People actually stop and watch me use my tiltrotator at a construction site,” says Tom Gardocki, co-owner of Next Era Excavation in Manchester, NH. “It’s pretty unusual for an excavator operator to ...