TPi May 2014

In the parlance of the fight ring, the specialities in this section punch above their weight. even when a water, drainage or civil project is relatively modest in scope, it imposes outsize responsibility: above all on the manufacturers of the tubing products central to its design, construction and operation. a faulty water or drainage pipe is always problematic; a civic installation undermined by a tubing problem could inconvenience or even endanger the wider public. The new industrial imperatives – faster, greener, safer – multiply the obligations of tubemakers even as the “old” considerations – budget, quality, service – surrender none of their urgency. Fortunately, the professionals who supply tubing products for the demanding uses of water, drainage and civil projects are conditioned by necessity to thinking (and manufacturing, warranting and delivering) in superlatives. Water, drainage and civils