Who does Edge Underground work for?
Edge Underground completes the majority of its work in Australia, and regularly travels to all states and territories to quote on and complete jobs. Edge Underground’s primary market is the trenchless installation of gravity sewer mains in virtually all ground conditions with nearly any pipe, completing absolute precision installations ranging in diameters from 100 to 900mm. Edge Underground has also completed a range of installations internationally and regularly quotes on jobs around the globe.
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Tough Tunnelling
Microtunnelling contractor Edge Underground recently completed a job in difficult terrain in Officer, Victoria The location of Officer, Victoria is renowned as being treacherous for boring contractors, with many complicated ventures undertaken over the past few years. The combination of ground conditions makes this area particularly difficult; for the most part the ground is a dense, compact clay formation that can be of high plasticity. However, as you go deeper the ground changes and becomes silty and sandy with some isolated rock outcrops. In addition to this, the water table is high. Contractor Delplant knew this area well and to...
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Microtunnelling overcomes complex conditions
Delegates at No-Dig Down Under 2013 learned about how innovative microtunnelling methods have been utilised as part of the upgrades to Melbourne’s Docklands Precinct through a case study led by Edge Underground Owner Stuart Harrison. The project has involved the installation of 320 m of 400 mm gravity sewer. HOBAS pipe using new microtunnelling technology. The challenges and specifics of this project to be discussed in the presentation include: Complexity Very short timeframes The pipe is 3 m below water table in marine silt (Coode Island silt) The Project is situated 50 m from the shoreline on reclaimed land with many obstructions,...
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JOURNEY-MAN RETURNS HOME
After taking his innovations from Australia to an international platform, founder of trenchless company Edge Underground and creator of the Vermeer AXIS Guided Boring system Stuart Harrison has come back to the land Down Under. Mr Harrison began his career in his father’s excavation company, and was involved in the installation of sewer and water pipelines for more than 25 years using various open-cut and trenchless methods. In 1999 he took the opportunity to start a trenchless division of his father’s company and by late 2000 he began importing and testing numerous international microtunnelling machines, none of which seemed to...
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Victoria Harbour, Docklands
Victoria Harbour is positioned in the Melbourne Docklands area on the mouth of the Yarra River was a challenging projects for many reasons. Water saturated Coode Island silt (3 meters below water table) As close as 30m to the Yarra river 15 timber pylons and many concrete/rubble sections Busy construction site Edge Underground utilised the Axis Guided Boring System to install 427OD Hobas Jacking Pipe to install over 300m of gravity sewers on minimal grades. The method was no only able to handle the soft wet silt but also able to drill through the many pylons and rubble present throughout...
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Axis Guided Boring System Wins International No-Dig Innovative New Product Award
In 2009 at the International No-Dig show in Toronto Canada, The Vermeer Axis Guided Boring system was awarded the "Innovative new product" award at the technologies market premier. This award was great recognition for the Australian Inventor of the system "Stuart Harrison" and his technology partners Vermeer.
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Axis vs Open Cut
In Australia and all over the world, project by project, Axis is being recognised as being a cost effective alternative to tradtional open cut methods. Edge Underground have repeatedly been able to offer a microtunnelling solutions to a traditional open cut project.
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