Special Works
A cleaning access location within the building structure.
Concrete clearing from construction site pipelines
London in the UK, alongside many of the world’s largest cities and towns, is currently in the midst of major building works including some of the largest new-build, purpose-built accommodation developments to date.
As with many sites of this nature, during the construction operations, in order to maintain machinery and equipment in the best working order it is often washed down after use. Where such equipment has been used for the preparation, movement or installation of concrete this can cause problems for the drainage system as wash-down water makes its way off site into the local drainage network.
When this is done over a period of time it can be the case that even newly laid drainage pipes can become laden with set concrete which then has to be removed to ensure the long-term viability of the drainage system. This was the case recently on a major construction undertaking for a significant residential construction project in the burgeoning Docklands area in London’s East End.
After searching the market for potential options to clean the affected pipes, and trialling cleaning from various other cleaning contractors, the contract to complete the concrete removal process was awarded to specialist pipe cleaning company Tube Tech International Ltd of Rayleigh, Essex, U.K.
Tube Tech specialises in fouling removal across virtually all industries. The company is often called on to implement its specialist fouling removal after other more traditional jetting and cleaning contractors have tried and failed to remove the blockage. Clients are usually at the point where the fouling problem is seemingly impossible to overcome and so they are
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considering pipe replacement as the only option. According to Mike Watson, Managing Director of Tube Tech: “It is at this point where we can offer a better alternative.”
After decades of operation in the field Tube Tech has developed a range of simple yet effective remote control systems and robotics specifically for fouling removal purposes. In many cases equipment suited the case in hand may be developed.
CLEARING CONCRETE FROM PIPES
The requirement to re-establish the correct flow regime in the concrete laden pipes serving the new buildings on a recent site proved to be quite urgent, so initially Tube Tech was asked to rapidly mobilise with what might be the best equipment available to them at the time.
Having been involved for some 30 years in specialist fouling removal operations from all types of process assets in all industries, including utilities as well as oil and
Cleaning equipment in one of the manholes.
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