CompositesWorld

Inside Manufacturing: CIPP Lights Way in Buried Pipe Repair

When the city of Amarillo, Texas, needed to repair more than 400 ft/122m of corroded 24-inch diameter iron wastewater pipes buried beneath a busy four-lane highway, it faced a dilemma. Corrosion was ...
Purdue University

Review of common construction practice finds environmental contamination, need for improved oversight and monitoring

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — An in-depth review of environmental protections for a common storm water culvert repair practice — cured-in-place pipe repair, or CIPP — has revealed differing installation ...
Purdue University

Materials emitted by a water pipe-repair method may pose health risks, new safeguards and research needed

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — New research is calling for immediate safeguards and the study of a widely used method for repairing sewer-, storm-water and drinking-water pipes to understand the potential ...
USA Today

A common way of fixing pipes is making people sick. Here's how fumes can enter your home.

A relatively inexpensive method for replacing aging water pipelines across the nation may come with health risks, a USA TODAY investigation has found. Known as cured-in-place pipe lining, or CIPP, the ...
Florida PoliticsOpinion

Building Commission overturns critical recommendation, putting homeowners, governments at risk

Without the recommendation, homeowners will continue facing financial harm, local governments will be susceptible to ...
Salon

In a pipe repair worker’s death, questions of safety still swirl

This article originally appeared on Undark. In 2017, 22-year-old Brett Morrow descended 20 feet underground while working for Benchmark Construction Company, a Bartlett, Illinois-based firm contracted ...
Inverse

Repairing America’s underground infrastructure reveals an unsettled scientific debate

In October 2017, Brett Morrow, a 22-year-old rugby player known as “String Bean” to his teammates, died while helping to install a plastic liner inside a Chicago-area sewer pipe. He had descended a 20 ...
Circle of Blue

Cured in Place? An Underground Pipe Repair Raises Questions.

In October 2017, Brett Morrow, a 22-year-old rugby player known as “String Bean” to his teammates, died while helping to install a plastic liner inside a Chicago-area sewer pipe. He had descended a 20 ...