US Pipelining Completes Major Pipe Restoration Project for UPMC – Hanover Hospital

Hospital Receives Epoxy & CIPP Restoration to More Than 3,000 Feet of Under Slab Sanitary Lines Philadelphia, PA – US Pipelining, LLC., a leader in non-invasive, “no-dig” infrastructure technologies, announced the completion of a major hospital restoration project involving multiple trenchless methods. The recently completed project at Hanover General Hospital (Now UPMC), included the restoration of almost three-thousand feet of under slab cast iron sanitary lines in which two trenchless methods were applied; Cured-In-Place-Pipe (CIPP), and brush cast epoxy lining.

“We were initially contacted by UPMC-Hanover several years ago requesting guidance on various non-invasive methods of restoration”, said Jeremy Bowman, field project manager for U.S. Pipelining, LLC. “Hospital environments present challenges not found in the common workplace. In the case of UPMC many of the under-slab lines were located in or near their kitchen facilities, this coupled with the extreme measures and precautions required for medical patient care made for a very challenging project”, states Bowman. A “clean” work environment was created to contain the impact of restoration which was performed during third shift to reduce interference with hospital staff. Specially selected “Green” resins were employed, eliminating nauseous vapors. “Collaborating with Stag Technologies, a division of Houston based Vortex Companies who specialize in producing epoxies for water and infrastructure renewal, we selected Stag’s DC1000E 100% solids epoxy material for the UPMC project as well as an epoxy-based system for the Cured-in-Place-Pipe (CIPP).”

U.S. Pipelining restored nearly three-thousand feet of cast iron pipe within UPMC. Working off-hours and overnight shifts, the massive project took four months to complete using three installation crews.