Innovative Pipe Pusher keeps work flying at Manchester
A project to construct a link road connecting Terminal 2 roundabout at Manchester Airport to other roads in the Airport City development area has made use of Stanton Bonna’s innovative Pipe Pusher to help install concrete pipes quickly and safely.
The multi million pound contract involved major diversions to utilities and created some logistical challenges to roads running through the project, so rapid installations were key to minimising disruption.
A quick solution was needed to help install over 180 metres of 1200mm diameter precast concrete pipe from Stanton Bonna during the expansion project. The Pipe Pusher was used to joint the 1200mm, 1500mm and 1800mm concrete pipes with great success. This site benefitted from using the new extension legs that enabled them to joint the 1800mm concrete pipes.
In total the Pipe Pusher helped to joint over 600 metres of pipe on this project.
GPL Civil Engineering was so impressed by how quick and easy the Pipe Pusher was to use at Manchester, representatives confirmed they would use it on all their future large diameter installations. The ground workers said they would have struggled to joint the rockers without the Pipe Pusher.
Comments from others included:
“Where there is little room or when back-laying, the Pipe Pusher makes the job much safer and easier.”
“Rockers are a doddle to joint using the Pipe Pusher.”
“When the pipe will not joint fully on the chains just a prod with the Pipe Pusher soon drives them home.”
“The new gaskets that comes in some of the pipes makes them a little more difficult to joint, the Pipe Pusher is a very good way of getting over this.”
Further information on the Manchester Airport City North Spine Road project is available on the GPL Civil Engineering website.
There is further information about the Stanton Bonna Pipe Pusher on the website at http://www.stanton-bonna.co.uk
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