WEHOLITE offers a wide range of advantages over other types of pipe for many low pressure applications.
These include:
• High durability - well proven history of use in
water and gas industry
• Excellent mechanical properties - within a
temperature range -30¬?C to +45¬?C
• High abrasion resistance - superior to concrete
as proven by independent research
• Ease of handling and installation
• Low maintenance costs
• Tolerant of ground movement in poor
ground conditions
• Resistant to a wide range of chemicals ISO 10358
• Design life is greater than 120 years
Health and Safety Benefits
ASSET
WEHOLITE combines light weight with high strength making handling and
installation on site relatively safe and cost-effective when compared
to other materials.
It offers distinctive advantages for a safer working environment through:
Overall reduction in time on site
Excavations opened for much shorter periods, thus less risk to third parties and less time spent working in excavations
Longer lengths mean fewer joints, also reducing the risk of leakage
Less plant machinery required on site
Using WEHOLITE proved both cost and time effective, as Kevin Parkhouse,
General Foreman on site for contractor May Gurney said, "Speed
proved a major factor in demonstrating the benefits of using ASSET
WEHOLITE in preference to precast concrete box, resulting in savings in
plant cost and overall project time scale."
Richard
Pinnegar, Site Engineer for May Gurney, identified the key safety
benefits to using the product on one particular site in the South West, "By using
light-weight WEHOLITE we reduced the risks involved with lifting and
positioning traditional concrete tanks, and hence WEHOLITE offered the
safest solution for our workforce."
