HOUSEBUILDING & COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Trenchless technology or senseless technology?

Final connections of services to the mains, whether they are foul drains and surface water, potable water, gas, electricity or communications have the potential to cause disruption to local road users, other businesses and members of the public.

Trenchless technology is the preferred choice of local authority planners and many developers for the final connection of surface water and foul drains to the public sewer network in urban areas and other high traffic locations. It offers the housebuilder and commercial developer the following benefits:

• Optically guided augerboring is quicker than trenching
• There is no disruption to road users
• Traffic management issues and lane rental costs are eliminated

Trenchless technology significantly reduces:

• Environmental impact
• Waste volumes to landfill
• New quarried materials for backfilling