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Pipe inspection contract awarded in Florida

Fri, 10 February 2012 The Board of County Commissioners of Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department, US, has approved a contract worth approximately $US5.8 million for Pure Technologies US to provide pipeline inspections and monitoring.

St Louis cleans up its Water Act

Tue, 16 August 2011 The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, located in Missouri, United States, will make extensive improvements to its sewer systems and treatment plants to eliminate illegal overflows of untreated raw sewage and to reduce pollution levels in urban rivers and streams.

Fixing leaking pipes improves water services in Phillipines

Tue, 16 August 2011 Maynilad Water Services has completed a $US2.57 million ($P108 million) project, replacing 19 km of old, leaking pipes in Navotas City, located in the Phillipines.

New Asian partnerships aid leak detection

Wed, 27 July 2011 Pure Technologies has been awarded a $US2.7 million contract to supply its pipeline leak detection and condition assessment technology to a major Asian water agency.

Relining in Dover

Thu, 21 July 2011 The City of Dover, located in Delaware, US, has successfully relined a sewer main on Division Street.

Pure acquisition of inspection business

Tue, 12 July 2011 Pure Technologies has purchased Salt Lake City-based pipeline inspection developer Electromechanical Technologies.

Extreme lateral connections

Planning of sewer rehabilitation in Minden and Roesrath, Germany

How to assess the risk to your assets

Deterioration rate modelling for sewers and optimising investigations and investment using a risk-based approach.

Locating voids behind pipe walls

Large diameter sewers are considered critical assets for most municipalities. Preventing catastrophic sewer failures is probably one of the most challenging issues facing Asset Managers today. Recently the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, took a pro-active approach to face this challenge and experimented with a pipe penetrating radar inspection tool (PPR), using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technology.

Rebuilding Canterbury’s underground

Following the devastating Christchurch earthquakes, Sydney Water and pipeline rehabilitation companies have been involved with sewer rehabilitation works in the New Zealand city.

Spring cleaning for Scottish Water pipes

Thu, 2 June 2011 Scottish Water will be improving more than five miles of water pipes and mains as the company kicks off two major projects in Maybole and Rothesay.

$US6.5 million contracts a pure win

Sun, 29 May 2011 Pure Technologies have been awarded three inspection and engineering projects for water and wastewater pipelines worth approximatley $US6.5 million.

Leaders in lining

Aarsleff Pipe Technologies is a part of Per Aarsleff A/S that was founded in 1947 when Per Aarsleff bought an excavator and opened his own brown coal field in central Jutland. Here Trenchless International looks at the company’s history and what they have in store for the future.

Contract to address flooding in the UK

Sun, 10 April 2011 Thames Water has appointed Black & Veatch to appraise flooding resilience at a number of its key water treatment assets within London and the Thames Valley, UK.

Tennessee government aids water and wastewater projects

Fri, 1 April 2011 The Tennessee Government Department of Environment and Conservation has announced a number of low-interest loans for projects aimed at improving water and wastewater infrastructure in Tennessee, US.

Trenchless rehabilitation in India

Tue, 29 March 2011 A re-commissioning ceremony has marked the successful completion of trenchless sewer works in Kolkata, India, as part of a project undertaken by Angerlehner Hoch and Tiefbau Gesellschaft mbH valued at over €20 million.

Pure North America

Wed, 23 March 2011 Pure Technologies Ltd has been awarded new work in Canada and the US for a combined value of over $US4 million.

Trenchless around the UK

Wed, 9 March 2011 National Grid has awarded Murphy Pipelines Limited a contract for microtunnelling and auger boring works associated with the installation of a new multi-million pound pipeline across East Cheshire farmland, located in the UK.

Call for tenders in British Columbia

Wed, 2 March 2011 The Town of Smithers, located in British Columbia, Canada, has called for tenders for sewer relining and inspection contracts.

Philippines official calls for asset inspection

Mon, 21 February 2011 A Councillor in Baguio City, located in the Philippines, has called for a condition assessment of the city’s sewer and drainage systems in the face of developmental upheavals that have taken place in the city over recent years.

Leak detection company to jazz-up pipes in New Orleans

Thu, 17 February 2011 The City of New Orleans, Louisiana, US, has contracted Echologics Engineering to oversee its water loss management and water pipe integrity assessment initiative, which includes leak detection, pipe condition assessment and maintenance.

CIPP making tracks in Wiltshire

Wed, 8 September 2010 A sewer dating back to the 1960s that runs alongside the Bristol to London railway line in the UK was recently repaired using cured-in-place pipe (CIPP).

Acquisition of pipe inspection company

Wed, 25 August 2010 The purchase of a leading large-diameter water and wastewater inspection company has recently been concluded in Calgary, Canada.

Inspection and rehabilitation of a deep, high flowing large diameter sewer

Inspection and condition is a challenging component of any rehabilitation program. In Canada one project team developed innovative planning and specialised equipment to achieve a positive outcome for the city of Hamilton, Ontario.

Advanced pipeline systems inspection and monitoring developments

One of the keynote speakers at the Trenchless Technologies in Asia Pacific Hong Kong 2009 conference was Professor Lucio Soibelman from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His talk introduced Carnegie’s Mellon Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Advanced Infrastructure Systems (AIS) Group vision and presented an overview of three AIS pipeline related research efforts.