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Associated Equipment Dealers  
Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) is an international trade association representing 1,200 construction equipment distributors, with specializations like trench shoring and directional drilling, manufacturers and industry-service firms. AED members sell, service and rent equipment to such markets as heavy and light construction, tunneling and trenchless construction, mining, agriculture, forestry, aggregates, engineers and industrial.

North American Society for Trenchless Technology  
The North American Society for Trenchless Technology is a multiple disciplinary society of individuals and organizations with professional, utilitarian or environmental interests in Trenchless Technology. NASTT focuses on the basic concerns for the environmental and social costs of tunneling and trenchless construction.

National Utility Contractors Association
For 40 years, NUCA has been fighting for the issues that affect your trenchless technology business and others interested in the Underground Utility Construction Industry. No matter what issue you are concerned with or what specialization your business performs, from trenchless pipe construction to directional drilling equipment , NUCA can provide protection for your business and the industry.

Associated Road & Transportation Builders Association
The Association Road & Transportation Builders Association has eight membership divisions: contractors, planning and design, transportation officials, traffic safety, materials and services, public-private ventures in transportation, education and research, and equipment manufacturers. For a tunneling and trenchless construction company, ARTBA is an essential association that alleviates a variety of concerns related to directional boring machines and directional drilling equipment.

Occupational Safety and Health Association
OSHA's mission is to assure the safety and health of America 's workers by setting and enforcing standards, providing training, outreach, and education, establishing partnerships and encouraging continual improvement in workplace safety and health. With trench shoring services, safety is an absolute necessity and OSHA ensure that the tunnel boring machines and directional drilling machines are always operating at the highest level of efficiency.

Bohrtec
Bohrtec is now a leading supplier of equipment in the European market, with more than fifteen years experience in design, construction and operation of machinery for the tunneling and trenchless construction of small diameter sewers and house connections. Also, their Auger boring equipment is now well proven and has many advantages over Open-Cut Methods from the technical, economical and ecological reasons.

Herrenknecht Corporation
Herrenknecht develops, manufactures and sells an entire range of mechanical tunneling and directional boring machines. Their tunneling and trenchless construction products can be deployed in all geological conditions and provide drilling diameters ranging from 100 to 16,000mm.

Microtunneling, Inc.
Microtunneling.com offers equipment and consulting to the microtunneling industry. Trench shoring services utilize microtunneling as a vital tool for companies that seek to enhance their trenchless technology. This site offers those companies advice and consultation on all matters involving microtunneling, as well as tunneling and trenchless construction.

Mission Clay
Mission Clay offers a wide array of clay pipe products for a variety of applications. For example, if your company deals with tunneling and trenchless construction, Mission clay pipe products can provide you with quality trenchless pipe construction materials.

Trenchless Technology
The mission of Trenchless Technology is to serve as the premier communications vehicle for the promotion and development of the trenchless industry. Trenchless methods include auger boring, directional drilling, tunnel boring, manhole rehabilitation, microtunneling, pipe jacking, pipe fusion, pipe ramming, pipe relining, pipe jacking, rock drilling, utility tunneling and trench shoring.

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers
AEM is the international trade and business development resource for companies that manufacture equipment, products and services used worldwide in the construction, agricultural, mining, forestry, and utility industries. Trenchless technology companies who specialize in directional drilling equipment and tunneling and trenchless construction are one example of companies who benefit from AEM.

The Associate General Contractors of America- NY Chapter
The AGSNYS is the largest statewide trade association for contractors, trenchless technology companies and other related industry companies in New York State . This chapter has served the tunneling and trenchless construction industry for 75 years with member benefits that include a full time safety director to assist you in work zone safety, OSHA inspections, Competent Person training, flagger training and all related safety issues.

Equipment Managers Council of America
EMCA is dedicated to improving equipment management operations in a variety of applications. Trenchless technology companies deal with the managing of directional drilling equipment, tunnel boring machines and other equipment necessary for tunneling and trenchless construction.

Pennsylvania Utility Contractors Association
PUCA believes the execution of our work should be conducted in accordance with certain standards and guidelines. When these standards and guidelines are followed, utility contractors, tunneling and trenchless construction company owners and engineers are assured of the optimum construction environment for bringing the project to successful completion.

Utility & Transportation Contractors Association of NJ
UTCA of New Jersey is a national award winning, non-profit trade association headquartered in Wall, New Jersey . UTCA currently includes approximately 1,100 member firms active in all phases of highway construction, tunneling and trenchless construction, utility work and environmental remediation construction, in the public and private sectors, throughout the State.

Utility Contractors Association of New England
The Utility Contractors' Association of New England (UCANE) is a trade association comprised of over 250 major contractors and associated business men and women who design, build, finance, insure, bond, and supply materials and equipment to the underground water and sewer construction industry. Trenchless technology companies involved with tunneling and trenchlessconstruction are heavily influenced by UCANE and its participating members.

D.H. Charles Engineering is a structural engineering firm which has specialized in providing professional construction engineering services to contractors throughout the United States for the past eleven years. Trenchless technology and tunneling and trenchless construction are two of the services they provide, as well as excavation shoring, structural shoring, Crane design and more.

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