Bridges to No Repair

In 30 years, I haven’t met a utility that didn’t have pipelines along bridges in their inventory. As bridges age, so do the pipelines. We are all getting older. Over forty percent of the bridges in the US are over fifty years old. In the Northeast, gas pipelines and bridges are typically 75 - 100 years old.

World Record 42-Inch Gas Main CIPL

Records are made to be broken, and the world record CIPL in summer 2019 of a 42-Inch Cast Iron Gas Main in a complex layout buried under eight lanes of the Garden State Parkway in East Orange NJ was a breakthrough technological achievement building upon past experience, and fresh technical innovations. It was possible because of lessons learned in overcoming challenges on previous CIPL projects renewing progressively larger diameter CI gas mains.