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Plastic pipe systems have become the preferred choice of architects, contractors and specifiers throughout Europe due to their many benefits, both inside the home, office or fac...
Surface heating and cooling using plastic pipes is being highlighted at the moment as it is helping facilitate a greater uptake of renewable heat sources and i...
What does an Olympic gymnast have in common with a plastic sewer pipe? At first glance, not much – but we’re talking about performance, not appearances. Both prove t...
Plastic pipes are well known for their smooth inner surfaces. Like human arteries, they are designed for fast delivery with only the slightest friction to oppose their flow. Sci...
Plastic Pipes Deliver Energy Security Without CO2 Emissions Hydrogen technology is widely predicted to lessen our world dependency on fossil fuel. The ap...
The pipe landscape all over the world is changing. Pipe materials have evolved from grey cast iron and lead into today’s ductile iron, steel and plastics (PE and PVC)....
Upgrading sewer and drainage systems in St Malo, France When engineers came to upgrade sewer systems in St Malo, France, they faced antiquated systems, d...
Stronger connections. Fewer defects. Greater flexibility. Lower environmental risk. These are just a handful of the outcomes of a study which pitted traditional rigid pipes agai...
Plastic pipes and inspection chambers for the construction of gravity drains and sewers have been widely used for many years in the UK. British Standards, such as BS 4660...
Leaking sewers – causing the exfiltration of wastewater into the surrounding soil – are an obvious environmental hazard. To the sewerage undertaker, infiltration of ...
We generally see flexibility as a good thing, whether we’re talking about working patterns or joint mobility. When it comes to sewers however, there’s often a preference fo...
A recent independent study quantified the incidence of defects in 1800 km of sewer pipes. Here, we investigate key types of defects and how each might impact on performa...
True or false – pipes must be stiff to support the weight of soil and traffic above them? Rigid materials such as concrete and clay settle into the ground under the loa...
Sewer and stormwater systems mirror the layout of our highways beneath the surface of the road. Due to the interaction between these two essential systems – underground pipeli...
Titanium, diamonds, even spider silk – all materials which have been lauded as the strongest to be found in nature. Then there are the manmade structures – steel, gr...
Leaking sewers are a growing problem, particularly for cities where expanding populations mean increased pressure on the underground pipes network. Despite flexible plastic pipe...