First Entirely Trenchless Solution for Establishing Water House Connections
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Technology
The introduction of the Hawle NoDig System – the first entirely trenchless solution for establishing water house connections – has been recognised with the ISTT New Machine Award for 2018.
The pipe robot during lab testing (Image source: Trenchless International)
The new system stemmed from the ‘No-Dig Challenge’ issued by a Norwegian municipality in 2014, encouraging market players to develop techniques to connect houses with water main networks using trenchless technology.
Striving to meet the ambitious No-Dig Challenge issued by the Oslo Municipal Agency for Water and Sewerage Works (VAV), Hawle Water Technology Norge AS was determined to use its drive for innovation to meet the need for a system to form trenchless house connections.
By 2017, the company was announced as the winner of the challenge for the development of the Hawle NoDig System, which gained further recognition as a top-five finalist for the Norwegian Tech Awards in 2017.
The system is able to locate the main water pipe, drill to it from a building’s basement and establish the connection, using remote-controlled robot technology without any digging required.
Read more about this product, its development, components and benefits on Trenchless International.
This article was featured in the printed edition of Trenchless International - winter issue.
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- Households Treatments
- Technology
- Automation
- Pumping System Design
- IT
- Leakage Detection
- System Integration
- Control Systems
- Infrastructure
- Civil Engineering
- Integrated Infrastructure
- Efficiency Improvement
- Distribution Network Management
- Multi-Sensor Pipelines
- pipeline leak detection
- Pipes and Pipelines