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RAINWATER MANAGEMENT


SPOTLIGHT ON GEO-CELLULAR


BMJ talks to Polypipe Civils & Green Urbanisation’s Elaina Tomalin about the business’s geo-cellular offering.


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olypipe Civils & Green Urbanisation (also known as Polypipe CGU) is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative water management and network solutions. We’ve been a trusted supplier to the construction industry for well over 40 years now, and our range of award- winning products include a variety of solutions that are suitable for various applications, all the way from roof to river.


I’m Polypipe CGU’s Product Manager for our geo-cellular offering, and my role largely revolves around our below ground geo- cellular systems Polystorm and Permavoid – both of which can provide attenuation, retention and infiltration to manage surface water at source.


Polystorm is a geo-cellular system that’s been designed to provide surface water retention, attenuation or infiltration as a soakaway solution at a variety of depth in trafficked and loaded areas. There have been several high-profile projects over the years that have used Polystorm to manage their stormwater, from sites created for the 2012 Summer Games in Stratford to famous film studios in Watford.


Polystorm is one of our most well-known products, and this year it celebrates 20 years since its launch. It, as you’d expect, has seen a few changes over the years but it’s a classic. I often liken it to a Chanel handbag – it never goes out of style! Jokes aside, it’s one of the easiest products to install, it’s incredibly effective, and that’s why it’s loved by so many. Since its launch in 2004, we’ve sold


enough crates that, if you stacked them end- to-end, the distance would span further than from our Loughborough office to Sydney, Australia (17,000km), and would provide four million m³ of water storage. To put that into perspective, Loch Ness holds 7.4 million.


Wider family


It now sits as part of a larger geo-cellular family, alongside Polystorm Deep, Xtra, Inspect, and Access. The cells can be combined to offer unique site-specific solutions offering maintenance and inspection. With the recent adoption of crates by many water authorities we can meet design requirements utilising the hybrid mix of products and technical assistance from an experienced team.


This year, we were delighted to celebrate Polystorm’s nomination for the top prize in the Building & Construction Products category at the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2024. The entirety of our product range has been designed and manufactured to encourage a safer, more sustainable future, helping to mitigate the effects of climate change and the impact of urbanisation and population growth.


Ultimately, sustainability is at the heart of what we do as a business, and a huge element of that is our own Polymer Processing Plant, which helps us to sort, wash and recycle HDPE – things like milk bottles – into the high-quality products we’re known for. Polystorm, is made from over 90% recycled material and, when we look at the wider


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product range, in 2023, 83% of all material that went into our products was from recycled sources.


It’s something that we at Polypipe CGU are proud of, and we’re pleased to be able to give milk bottles, for example, a new lease of life as many of our products – including Polystorm – have extended life cycles of over 60 years. We’ve come a long way in both our product and recycling journeys, and it’s exciting to think about what’s next. BMJ


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