Groundbreaker Water Management System

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Groundbreaker Water Management System

• Steve Leigh
• Director
• Groundbreaker Systems

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Business Drivers

• Water and Construction industry directives
• Planning, Carbon footprint etc.
• Capital expenditure and build programmes
• Cost effective materials and use of labour.
• Operational expenditure budgets
• Design out potential leakage
• Logistical limitations
• Accessibility
• Technology intelligent meter reading systems.
• Highway adoptions
• Traffic Management Act

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Traditional methods-

• Economic, Sustainable or POLITICAL levels of
  leakage need to be managed.
• Knowledge of water company assets.
• Measurement and identification of leakage.
• Cost of repairs of company assets (Opex)
• Cost of repairs to street furniture
• Cost of excavation in highway
• Cost of meter reading billing
• Liaison with other organisations (refurbishment
  sites)
• Local Government has over 40b to spend on Urban
  Regeneration.
• Work with Housing Associations (Winchester,
  Hampshire CC)
• Lead Galvanised water service replacement
  programme.

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New Services

• Blue sky thinking
• Design out leak paths (similar to Gas industry)
• Minimise if not eliminate liabilities
• Accessible apparatus.
• AMR capable / increased range on meters.
• Seasonal tariffs (smart metering)
• Customer read meters at point of delivery
• Water Industry Act
• S 163 (2) Stopcock located as near as
  practicable to boundary
• Definition left to water company in terms of
  trade

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Developer Interface

• Working in partnership can cut time and cost of
  utility installation
• Direct purchase and installation of specified
  materials removes cost and logistics train for
  apparatus
• Developer saves by removing street furniture
  time and cost saving on highway adoptions (how
  many times do you go back to repair boundary
  boxes?)

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Groundbreaker Systems

• A green solution to water supply
• Compliant with WIS 4-37-01
• Controls water before property
• 2 Options for fixing
• Versatile where installed
• Versatile when may be fixed
• Secure by design.
• Suitable for domestic sprinkler systems

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Identify each water service

• Avoid these situations

Which pipe serves what property? Or find the
boundary box
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Groundbreaker Contaminated Ground (Brownfield)

• Water Regulations Advisory Service Guide Note
  9-04-03 selection of materials in contaminated
  land
• As Groundbreaker is mounted above ground, it is
  not subject to the requirements for sealed meter
  housings as is often the case.
• Why specify expensive heavyweight boundary boxes
  that use virgin materials ?
• Groundbreaker is capable of taking all 25mm dia.
  water service pipes including barrier pipe
  without special arrangements being made.
• By use of GPS adaptors, Groundbreaker can also
  accept copper pipes

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Working in PARTNERSHIP .

• With the water company to ensure compliance
  with Water Regulations.
• Because Groundbreaker is above ground it is
  subject to potential freezing situations, which
  is why we had it tested independently by WRc to
  ensure compliance with WIS 4-37-01 (resistant to
  temps of -13C for 48 hours)
• It is therefore ESSENTIAL that the product is
  installed correctly, with an appropriate
  thickness of insulation (specified) being used
  for the installation.
• Failure to do so or to manage such installations
  could result in freezing and damage to apparatus.
• We suggest a water company to use either a
  Groundbreaker approved contractor to carry out
  an installation or to carry out an inspection
  under Water Regulations on each property using
  the system to ensure compliance with Water
  Regulation Guidance note R4.11

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Please try to avoid these situations-
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Business Benefit - General

• Direct access to water meter
• Secure by Design
• B.Regs Part M compliant
• No street furniture
• Ideal for brown field sites
• Ideal for refurbishments /
• urban regeneration.
• Ideal for water service repairs
• Cuts time and cost of water
• connections
• With 40,000 units already installed in various
  parts of the UK, we believe that we can add value
  to YOUR project

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INSUduct on its own

• Urban Regeneration / Decent Homes
• Lead replacements
• Shared services
• Leakage repair
• Financed under grant aid
• Why not add Groundbreaker and a water meter to
  avoid future excavation in the highway?

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SHalloduct part 1

• Pipe protection for shallow lay situations

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SHalloduct part 2

• Impact protection through load bearing twin
  wall pipe.
• Capable of taking either standard PE or barrier
  pipe (25 or 32mm dia)
• Impermeable Insulation to BS WRAS standards
• Cut costs of excavation and carting away of spoil
  particularly in contaminated situations

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Further References

• Compliant with WIS 4-37-01 (frost test for
  boundary boxes)
• Compliant with Water Regulation R4.4 R4.11
  frost protection.
• Compliant with Water Regulation Guidance Note
  9-02-02 frost protection
• WRAS, WRc Kiwa Approved where appropriate
• UVDB / Achilles Accredited
• Specified by for urban regeneration schemes
• Birmingham City
• Wolverhampton City
• Oxford City
• Leeds City
• Merseyside Metropolitan Boroughs
• Former British Coal Housing stock managers
• Former MOD housing stock where water services
  need replacing

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NRv2

• Cost effective whole site protection against back
  flow
• Protection to fluid category 3
• Remove the expense of additional street furniture
• Utilise existing apparatus / improve efficiency

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And finally

• Thank you for your time in viewing this
  presentation