EXTERNAL WITH POST-TENSIONED TENDONS

• The drainage is avoiding, since the reinforcement to the pipes is done with static loaded.

• Under certain conditions, the pipes can be reinforced while keeping in operation or in excavating sections.

• The cost of retrofitting is 1/3 to 1/3 of the value of the replacement of the pipes.

• The time of installation of the tendon is about half or third of the time used to replace a segment.

• 30 more years of useful life of the tube

• Make a tube over the damaged one with the structural capacity of the original tube.

• Concrete provides an additional advantage to the tube section and which is located to, providing a fixed support to s m t the tuber normal does not.

  • Avoid high costs for emergency repairs.

  • Continuity of supply.

  • Anticorrosive grease.

  • Wrapper polypropylene of the tendon.

  • Connection to cathodic protection.

  • Full mortar coating.