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ASTM developing CIPP liner standard

Mon, 14 May 2012 A proposed American Society for Testing and Materials standard is currently being developed for single-sized cured-in-place liners.

Renovating to preserve history

The historic Balans Sewer in Middleburg, the Netherlands, was in extremely poor condition, allowing wastewater to seep into the ground below. Contractor Van der Velden Rioleringsbeheer explains how a cured-in-place liner restored and preserved the culturally important sewer.

Curing Columbus

Tue, 24 April 2012 The City of Columbus, US, is undertaking works to rehabilitate 1,620 ft of 48 inch diameter concrete sanitary sewer by utilising cured-in-place pipe.

Innovative techniques cure Salisbury’s sewers

A £200,000 scheme to regenerate Salisbury’s sewerage network using cured-in-place pipe has been completed.

Freeport plans for CIPP

Mon, 5 March 2012 The City of Freeport, Illinois, is now underway on a project to inspect, clean, repair and rehabilitate approximately 14 miles of ageing public sanitary sewer pipes.

Japanese company acquires shares in Austrian pipe rehab specialist

Mon, 23 January 2012 Austrian Rabmer Pipe Rehabilitation has become a subsidiary of the Sekisui Chemical Company after signing a contract that gives the Japanese industrial company, of which the Seikisui SPR Europe Group is a member, a 75 per cent shareholding.

Crest Hill pipes receive $US5.6 m upgrade

Mon, 19 December 2011 Residential neighbourhood wastewater pipes in the City of Crest Hill, Illinois, US, are about receive a $US5.6 million upgrade after Insituform has been awarded a contract to install approximately 135,000 ft of cured-in-place pipe.

Laying it on thick

During the trenchless rehabilitation of a 1,230 m long sewer with 600/900 mm oval profile in Berlin Wilmersdorf, Karl Weiss Technologies GmbH installed a Brandenburger GFRP pipe liner with a wall thickness of 11.9 mm.

CIPP – where do we go from here?

Cured-in-place pipe appears with hindsight as one of the most significant breakthroughs of the last century. Some 50,000 km of cured-in-place pipe has been installed worldwide since 1971. For 20 years the technology was protected by substantial patents and licensing policies. The tight grip relaxed in the 1990s and vigorous competition ensued as new processes and materials were introduced.

Under Nashville – big role for trenchless in Nashville’s future

People in the trenchless industry in the middle Tennessee area are excited about hosting the 2012 No-Dig Show in Nashville in March. Here we take a look at the infrastructure Under Nashville to see how trenchless has helped deliver to the community, and serves as a significant part of the future.

Cambridge explores new territories for expanding infrastructure life

Thu, 24 November 2011 The City of Cambridge, which is located in Ontario, Canada, is utilising Trenchless Technology to expand the life of its infrastructure.

Tenders called in Ireland and India

Tue, 22 November 2011 Tenders have been announced for general construction work for pipelines in Dublin, Ireland and rehabilitation work in Bangladesh, India.

Water rehab approved for Tennessee

Fri, 4 November 2011 Officials in Sparta, Tennessee, USA, have unanimously approved funding for much needed wastewater and water rehab projects that will replace outdated lines in several sections of the city.

Curing Hawaii

Thu, 8 September 2011 Insituform Technologies, Inc. announced that it has been awarded two contracts with a combined value of approximately $US9.9 million to rehabilitate nearly 7,000 ft of pipeline for the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii.

Work resumes in Shakopee

Mon, 5 September 2011 Metropolitan Council Environmental Services, operator of the metro-area wastewater collection and treatment system, have resumed work on its repair of the regional sanitary sewer pipe in Shakopee, located in Minnesota, US.

Under pressure

RS Technik has finalised a licensing agreement with Inland Pipe Rehabilitation for its new RS BlueLine pipe rehabilitation system, featuring specially formulated Dow epoxy resins for pressure pipe applications helping to address the pressure pipe market.

Largest to date: relining in France

Near the city of Lille, located in the north of France, 4 km of sewer drains were rehabilitated using UV-light curing pipe liners from DN 600–1,200 mm made by Reline Europe – an unprecedented project in France.

Winding through the canal

Since its market launch in Germany in 2008, the SPR method has enabled defective sewer lines to be rehabilitated with a spiral-wound pipe liner formed of endless steel-reinforced PVC profile strips inside the sewer. The current rehabilitation of the Uchte canal in Stendal, located in Germany, by specialists from the Brehna office of KMG Pipe Technologies GmbH shows that even exotic profiles with large nominal diameters can be rehabilitated by this method.