The Federation of Canadian Municipalities recently released the Canadian Infrastructure Report Card 2019. The report is the result of the combined efforts of a number of organizations:   The Association of Consulting Engineering Companies Canada (ACEC), the Canadian Construction Association … Read More

Chicago, IL, one of the largest cities in the US with a population of almost three million people, has been struggling with a problem common to older municipalities – replacing crumbling sewer lines and house laterals.  In June of this … Read More

Laval, Quebec is a thriving city just to the north of Montreal. Home to businesses in the technology, pharmaceutical, industrial and retail sectors, it is also a robust educational and recreational centre with vocational institutes, college and universities. Residential neighbourhoods … Read More

Laterals can and will deteriorate over time, allowing root intrusion and infiltration of groundwater into the sewage system.  Sometimes, the groundwater enters through cracks in the lateral but even more often, roots and groundwater enter the pipe through open joints.  … Read More

What do you do when you have a vertical pipe that needs lining and it extends 15 floors straight up? You get bright fast… When a Massachusetts hospital discovered that the drain pipe running between the exterior and interior walls … Read More

When crude oil comes out of the ground, it must be processed to convert it to useful forms of fuel oils and lubricants. This complex processing is conducted at oil refineries, most of which are enormous compounds of stacks, tanks, … Read More

Shawinigan is a small city located about a half an hour northwest of Trois Rivieres in Quebec. Originally the site of a waterslide to send logs downstream to Trois-Rivieres, the nearby rapids also made it an attractive site for a … Read More

For the past 20 years, I have been lucky enough to participate actively in the development and commercialization of a new approach to re-building aging water mains. Largely used for the rehabilitation of sewer pipes, there was no equivalent cured-in-place … Read More

The development of trenchless technology to rehabilitate existing underground infrastructure with minimal disruption to surface traffic, business, and other activities has left a lasting impact on the construction and civil engineering industries. As the name denotes, trenchless technology requires few … Read More