Features

In a world where plastics are public enemy number one, is there a future for plastic pipe through sustainability and its potential environmental benefits?

GRP – know as FRP in the USA – stands for glass reinforced plastic and it is popular material for making super strength pipes with high corrosion resistance

Below specification PCCP installed across the US in the 1970s has left Amercian water companies facing massive repair and reinforcement projects

The Great Man Made River of Libya is one of the world’s greatest pipeline propjects, supplying 80% of the population living in the north with freshwater

Libya has its first unity government for seven years – which is good news for the oil industry after production ground to a halt during years of civil war

It takes years to find out that a pipe material is not suitable – with three very obvious contenders for being the worst pipe types on the planet

Collaboration between Portsmouth Water and Southern Water on the Havant Thicket Reservoir provides a blueprint for the future of water management in the UK

Seawater cooling systems are popular in drier climates as a means of using water from the ocean for industrial processes rather than precious freshwater

District heating is a system whereby heat is supplied to multiple homes from a central source through a seres of pipes, reducing energy bills and emissions

Ductile iron has long been used in sulphuric acid pipeline construction but the industry is now turning to alloys for a range of different reasons