Core Drilling and Flow Stop, WASK

The scope of this project is to support development of equipment to undertake under pressure drilling, tapping and sealing through a 600mm diameter core excavation on 4-12” mains operating up to 2 barg.

The second phase of the project will support development of flow stop equipment designed to operate in a 600mm diameter core excavation allowing flow stopping and bypassing of affected mains from 4” to 8 “ and operating up to 100mbar.

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The success criteria for this project are to trial and test the method and equipment against the traditional methods currently used to compare its performance in terms of:

Asses whether core drilling provides a safe, efficient and cost effective solution.
Enable comparison of the effectiveness of the equipment versus existing equipment
Indicate whether there is a reduction in the environmental impact when comparing existing equipment with that in the field trial.
Judge whether there is a resultant Increase in productivity.

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