RePipe’s Exclusive Trenchless Mains Replacement Solutions

Services: Utility Mains

REPIPE’S UTILITY MAINS REPLACEMENT SOLUTIONS

RePipe delivers minimal disruption pipe replacement solutions for utility mains clients. Indeed, RePipe’s service goal is to ensure our commercial clients and their operations don’t notice us. RePipe can provide commercial clients with an end-to-end pipe replacement service or deliver specific components of the pipe replacement process as required.

To Whom It May Concern,

We are writing to congratulate you on your choice of contractors (RePipe) employed to complete the sewer main replacement works…..It was an involved process which caused a number of inconveniences for residents. We have a tendency to notice how people work and we were extremely impressed by the hard work and dedication this group displayed in order to get the job done speedily and with as little disturbance to resident as possible….this group of people were so nice we almost feel that we miss them now they are gone! I hope that in the future you will continue to use such considerate, industrious and wonderfully friendly people.

Scott and Julie (Residents)
October 2009

RePipe can provide utilities with an end-to-end mains replacement service or deliver specific components of the mains replacement process as required.

RePipe minimises disruption by delivering 2 interdependent solutions – exclusive pipebursting technologies and advanced risk management systems. RePipe’s exclusive and patented pipebursting technologies provide the least invasive way of replacing underground pipes with a brand new pipe of equivalent or larger diameter. Importantly, RePipe’s exclusive pipebursting technologies can replace almost all types and sizes of mains. In addition, RePipe can deliver customised pipebursting solutions for sites that are subject to heritage, cultural and environmental challenges.

Pipe Content Power Potable Water Sewerage and Wastewater Recycled Water Desalinised Water Stormwater Gas

Pipe Diameters Benchmark and Enhanced Solutions to address pipe diameters ranging from 50mm to 600mm Customised Solutions to address pipe diameters ranging from 600mm to 900mm

Pipe & Joint Materials Vitreous Clay Asbestos PVC Cast Iron Concrete Steel-Reinforced Concrete Galvanised Iron Steel | Polyethylene Lined and relined

Specialist Solutions Environmentally Sensitive Sites Heritage Listed Sites Culturally Important Sites High Density Sites Problematic and Confined Sites

In addition to the technologies offered by all pipe replacement contractors, RePipe holds the exclusive rights to a wide range of pipebursting technologies including those originally developed and patented by TRIC Tools Inc.

RePipe’s exclusive pipebursting technologies provide some significant advantages to other systems including:

• Safer for operators via completely remote operation and zero harm pulling cable system
• Superior pull pressures yet up to 34% less invasive than other pipebursting technologies. On average, RePipe’s pipebursting technologies require between about 10% of the excavation associated with open-trenching
• Eliminate the aggressiveness and directional inaccuracies associated with other pipebursting systems to minimise the risk of damage to neighbouring assets
• Eliminate the vibration associated with other pipebursting systems enabling pipebursting in unstable soils
• Eliminate the noise associated with other pipebursting systems supporting less disruptive works in residential and high density areas
• Faster to assemble and disassemble and faster pipebursting progress rates (up to 3 metres per minute) to minimise service interruptions
• No moving parts (such as expander fins) that can choke with soil
• Applicable to brittle and pliable pipe and fitting materials
• Driven by an independent power source that enables RePipe to contain mobilisation costs and to scale the power source to suit specific sites
• Do not introduce pneumatic hoses, oils or other potential contaminants into the barrel of the replacement pipe enabling potable water pipes to be pre-chlorinated prior to installation
• An independent power source that enables RePipe to contain mobilisation costs and to scale the power source to suit specific sites
• Enable pipebursting through multiple and consecutive bends and curves
• Easily reoriented to simultaneously replace property service branches
• Support pipebursting in pipes filled with liquid.

There are a number of reasons I think RePipe’s pipebursting tools have an advantage over other pipebursting tools. The main reason is that they are far safer…….there is less heavy gear, the cable system also means you can do longer runs, it is quicker, the access pits needed are considerably smaller and you don’t need as many of them which in turn means less reinstatement and lower cost. And on top of all that it is much quieter.
Robby Ollerhead, WestNet Energy

Typical pipebursting works process

An equally important component of RePipe’s least disruptive pipe replacement service is world-leading risk management systems. RePipe has developed and embedded a risk management system that enables us to identify, assess, manage and monitor all of the risks arising from our specialised activities. In particular, RePipe’s risk management system addresses 2 key risk categories not traditionally covered by pipe replacement providers – operational (business) risk and integrity risk. RePipe considers that its management of integrity risk is fundamental to its success because any risk management system is only as strong as the strength of character of the people operating within it.

RePipe’s risk management system is embedded in every aspect of RePipe’s activities – from project planning and pricing to completion of field works. In particular, RePipe’s advanced understanding of risk enables RePipe to develop innovative risk-sharing agreements to suit each client’s specific needs. RePipe then applies risk-based profit margins which reflect the residual risks to which it is exposed. RePipe’s risk-based pricing can reduce total project costs for clients by 10% whilst at the same time delivering stronger risk-adjusted returns for RePipe’s shareholders.

RePipe’s primary objective is to conduct its business with ‘zero harm’. Beyond this, RePipe employs its very own Echo-NomicsTM framework to ensures our activities echo positive benefits for people, places and our partners.

Operationally, dedicated Risk Officers oversee the ongoing development of, and compliance with, RePipe’s risk management system and have the authority to report ongoing breaches directly to RePipe’s Board of Directors.

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