The Pipe Blog

Trench boxes provide essential worker safety when installing pipe in deep trenches or unstable soils. However, their use with large diameter flexible pipes presents a critical challenge: maintaining compacted embedment integrity during trench box movement. Improper technique can create voids alongside the pipe or reduce backfill density adjacent to the pipe, eliminating the lateral support that flexible pipes require to control deflection.

In the realm of construction products, an ongoing discussion among engineers, contractors, and project partners often centers around the strength of different materials. Traditionally, strength has been associated with products that remain rigid and unyielding under load, such as reinforced concrete walls or heavy steel beams.

As engineers in the pipe industry, we see the results of a lot of pipe projects. Fortunately, the vast majority of the installations are successful and result

Relining existing pipes and culverts is becoming an increasingly popular means of addressing aging utilities. The advantages of sliplining include the

After having successfully completed a new professional development hour (PDH) article for Informed Infrastructure on the topic of buried culverts and service

During his State of the Union address earlier this year, President Trump called on Congress to produce a plan to introduce $1.5 trillion dollars in investment