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Cost & Benefits
The Costs
A UMS pipe bursting team equipped with a full range of equipment and ancillaries.
The Benefits
• Avoids the need for long deep trench excavations.
• Facilitates pipe replacement in areas with multiple utilities in close proximity.
• Minimal excavation reduces road reinstatement costs.
• Can be used to avoid excavation when pipes run through sensitive or brownfield sites.
• Minimises visual aesthetic disruption on historic and high profile sites.
• Improves site safety by reducing the number, size and duration of open excavations.
• Use of pipe coils can reduce the number of joints and guard against leakage.
• Works well where soils are unstable or where there is significant ground water. |
