June 13, 2012
Vital repairs to a drinking water transport pipeline in Norway included the first ever use in the country of trenchless water pipe bursting to fix damaged cast-iron pipes. Leaks caused by corrosion had become commonplace over 900m of the 40-year-old ND 600 cast iron-made pipeline in Trondheim. Due to the pipeline running 3m below a busy street and in front of a kindergarten and school, contracted civil engineering firm Sandum decided to replace the pipeline using a trenchless pipe bursting method rather tha
