In late 2019, BPDA carried out a number of high-pressure water jetting tests for a wide range of gravity pipe brands available in the UK market, including both concrete and lightweight plastic pipes. In this blog, we explore how significant are the findings from these tests and what do the results tell us about both concrete pipes and… Read more »
Over the last few years, there have been lots of talk about the embodied carbon of assets used in wastewater and drainage infrastructures. However, for products such as concrete pipes, a cradle-to-site carbon footprint should not be treated as a fixed value, as that footprint gets lower over time and can drop by as much… Read more »
The UK’s concrete and cement industry has announced an ambitious carbon programme with a target to become ‘Carbon Negative’ by 2050. In this blog, we explore how the new roadmap can affect the industry. We also answer the main questions on the precast concrete drainage sector and ‘Net Zero Carbon’. In June, the cement and… Read more »
In April this year, Water UK published its latest sewers adoption Design & Construction Guide (DCG), introducing for the first-time new requirements for the adoption of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), including attenuation tanks. In this blog, we briefly explore the main implications in terms of open areas and surface-level car park fires and how different… Read more »
European Parliament decision to ban high lead (Pb) content in recycled uPVC may have implications on the UK’s stormwater and drainage sectors On the 12 th February, the European Parliament voted down a proposal by the European Commission that would have allowed post-consumer un-plasticised polyvinyl chloride (uPVC) waste with 2% lead (Pb) content (20 times… Read more »
BPDA has released a new video demonstrating how the use of concrete pipes can lead to significant cost savings due to the nature of bedding used to install the pipes compared to flexible lightweight alternatives. The 2 minutes long video explains how bedding arrangements work for rigid and flexible pipes: Lightweight flexible pipes are generally… Read more »
Jetting is a critical part of operations to clear sewer blockages but care must be taken to avoid damage from high pressure hoses. With a change in British Standards BS 5911 expected to introduce mandatory tests to concrete pipes, the sector must adapt to this new reality With an increasing number of sewer blockages caused… Read more »
As the construction industry embraces whole-life models for carbon consumption in projects and products, a forthcoming BPDA study should demonstrate a huge benefit in concrete pipe selection, says Matthew Butcher, sustainability & product association executive, British Precast. The UK government’s push for net zero carbon by 2050 will see the developers of infrastructure projects paying… Read more »
The revised standard for structural design of buried pipelines will soon bring methods into line with contemporary design practice. Marshalls CPM’s director of technical & engineering, Mark Flavell, who represented BPDA on the drafting committee, explains the importance of this update. At the end of November 2019 a revised version of British Standard BS 9295:2010… Read more »
British Precast, the federation trade body which includes BPDA and a number of other precast concrete product associations, issued a Press Release on Monday 2nd September about precast drainage products placed in the UK market without any visible proof of conformity to relevant provisions of British standards or sufficient Declaration of Performance as required by… Read more »
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