Monthly Archives: December 2014

Underground Manager a great tool for the digital age

Posted on 2014-12-16 by Lars Almbrandt

Easy access to information is a prerequisite for tunneling and mining engineers to help them produce a tunnel or a drift that matches the planner’s original design. With Underground Manager from Atlas Copco, all of this information is now readily available.

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Ground engineering in tricky Scottish ground

Posted on 2014-12-16 by Lars Almbrandt

A special ground engineering project outside the city of Aberdeen involving the drilling of 220 boreholes in mixed rock formations required an equally special system to get the job done. The result was impressive. Each hole took just 20 minutes to complete.

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