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From The Editor
Welcome to In The Trenches, CSPI’s online news magazine. In The Trenches is published to help keep our members and colleagues working in soil/water management apprised of news and information... -
Herpetofauna
As science discovers more about the important role ‘herps’ play in maintaining a healthy biosphere, protecting frogs, lizards and turtles becomes a priority for us all. -
Victoria Road
The Right Stuff: How using CSP helped the City of Guelph make emergency repairs to a washed out arterial road in an environmentally sensitive area and completed the construction ahead of schedule. -
Seeing Is Believing: Special Coatings Deliver Specific Protection
There are culvert installations and test sites across every region of Canada that dramatically demonstrate the merits of matching a particular steel type to the specific threats of its local environment. Seeing Is Believing will showcase the increased longevity of structures at these installations to validate the efficacy protection offered by specialized CSP coating variants. -
Corporate Profile: Ironside Design Manufacturing
In this first profile of an ongoing series featuring Canada's CSP industry leaders, we look back at more than a hundred years of success to discover how Ironside Design Inc. focused on innovation and customer service to become the world's leading manufacturer of CSP mills. -
Canada’s First Installation of a Polymer Coated Deep Corrugated Buried Steel Structure Leads to Product Improvements
How empirical evidence from a 2005 replacement of an aging concrete bridge beneath Highway 401 spearheaded significant performance improvements for Polymer Coated Deep Corrugated Structural Plate. -
Corrugated Steel Pipe Helping to Fulfill a 200-Year Environmental Protection Contract
In 1990, the Brenda Mine was abruptly closed as a result of seriously depleted ore deposits, as well as grave geological concerns about the incurrence of further damage to the mountain strata. Site reclamation activities had already commenced in 1988, and included contouring and terracing of rock piles, aerial seeding and fertilization, as well as irrigation of newly planted areas. -
Alberta Flooding: Local Knowledge and Intelligent Design of Culvert Structures Yield Improved Efficiency and Durability
In late June of this year, record flooding in Alberta washed out the Trans-Canada Highway where it crossed Cougar Creek, in Canmore. -
Highlights of 2013 CHBDC Supplement #3
The Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code (CHBDC) is Canada's design standard document for designing bridge structures with spans exceeding three metres. -
Fish “Ladders” and Other Creative/Technical Innovations Keep CSP On the Leading-Edge of Water/Soil Management Solutions
Executive Director, Dave Penny, was one of four "innovator" presenters, vying to convince a panel of soil/water industry experts to award a hypothetical $100 thousand budget to fund their proposed new - and real - technical innovation.
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