Purdue University

Review of common construction practice finds environmental contamination, need for improved oversight and monitoring

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — An in-depth review of environmental protections for a common storm water culvert repair practice — cured-in-place pipe repair, or CIPP — has revealed differing installation ...
Florida PoliticsOpinion

Building Commission overturns critical recommendation, putting homeowners, governments at risk

Without the recommendation, homeowners will continue facing financial harm, local governments will be susceptible to ...
Circle of Blue

Cured in Place? An Underground Pipe Repair Raises Questions.

In October 2017, Brett Morrow, a 22-year-old rugby player known as “String Bean” to his teammates, died while helping to install a plastic liner inside a Chicago-area sewer pipe. He had descended a 20 ...
C&EN

Easy pipe replacement method raises safety concerns

When a municipality repairs water or sewer pipes, it faces what seems like an easy decision: Dig up roads to replace the pipes entirely, or thread a tube of polymer resin through the damaged pipes, ...
KOIN 6

Vortex Introduces Total UV CIPP System

HOUSTON, Feb. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Vortex Companies, a leading provider of advanced trenchless water and sewer technologies and infrastructure renewal services, introduced today its new, ...