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IGEM NEWS | Industrial Affiliates

tRIIO pulls off a 740m
Meter Provida
releases new mains insertion in one push
app to help
meter engineers
WorkSmart A NUMBER OF IGEM
Industrial Affiliates have
METER PROVIDA has assisted in a particularly
released a new app aimed challenging live mains
at revolutionising the way insertion on behalf of the
meter engineers work. UK’s largest gas
The app, called distribution network.
WorkSmart, enables Using the live mains
meter installers to order insertion (LMI) method,
consumables via their tRIIO, a joint venture
mobile devices and have owned by Skanska UK and
them despatched the Morrison Utility Services
same day, reducing the working on behalf of
potential for costly Cadent, recently inserted a
downtime and optimising new 355mm PE gas main
project efficiency. 740 metres into an 18in
WorkSmart is part of underground cast iron pipe
the Meter Provida in one push.
Slipstream family of apps This exceptionally long
and provides supervisors insertion, given the
and operations teams with diameter of the PE, was
the ability to set pre- carried out in minimum
authorised spending levels time with very little
for field engineers to order disruption to property
consumables they need to owners and road users.
complete a job. The gas mains
The app, which is now replacement renewal project
available across Android in Hounslow, West London,
and iOS platforms, was carried out for Cadent
carries a selection of by KLT Construction.
more than 500 essential IGEM Industrial Affiliate
consumable products, Steve Vick International
from PPE to masonry (SVI) supplied the
drills. The selection is equipment and consumable
fully customisable to suit products used in the LMI
the operational needs of process as well as providing
the user business and is a Pipe Handler and a
constantly updated with Macaw Pipe Cracker to
new additions suggested maximise efficiency.
by users. ■ The project involved The pipe handling machine goes
replacing an ageing low to work on the tRIIO project
pressure cast iron gas main
in Hounslow’s Vicarage Farm new main to be tested and only interrupted once when
Road, a busy road lined with commissioned. Further services were connected to
houses and businesses and foam-offs were executed to the new main.
linking with the A4. allow services to be Phil Walden of tRIIO said:
The tRIIO team decided connected. At this stage, “It’s been a very successful
to attempt the 740m push SVI’s Large Macaw Pipe project with customers,
in one go to reduce time Cracker was attached to the pedestrians and road users
and disruption. For this, KLT excavator and used to crack not realising that 740m of
used a JCB for the first the cast iron main swiftly main had been replaced.
400m and a 14 tonne and safely to expose a The local authorities were
excavator for the remaining section of the inserted PE. impressed with the way this
pipe, fitted with a SVI 400 The mains renewal was was done and had no
pipe handling machine. completed in around five problem with extending the
Once the PE was days with only a partial original notice past the
inserted, a SVI contract road closure for foam-offs, original end date as they
service team carried out test and connection. could see we were working
two foam-offs, enabling the Customers’ supplies were as a team.” ■

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