Council speeds up refurbishment with fabrication

Residents were able to remain in their homes throughout Birmingham City Council’s large scale ‘Live Stack Replacement’ works thanks to a time-saving solution from Polypipe, the UK’s leading plastic piping systems manufacturer.

Having worked closely with M&E Contractor IDS and Birmingham City Council on a refurbishment programme since 2009, Polypipe Terrain’s fabrications team devised a solution which would replace the original cast iron soil and waste pipes across three separate high rise towers.

Polypipe manufactured 200metres of 110mm Terrain dB12 and 75mm Terrain Fuze fabricated soil and waste stacks to exact specifications and delivered them to the site in Kings Norton, where sub-contractor Lovell was able to complete installations across the 96 properties 40% faster than the average for such works.

Martin Fallon, Contract Works Officer at Birmingham City Council, said: “As with all necessary refurbishment works it is always our intention to do so with as little intrusion as possible.

“As a result of a the type of works programme we put into place with IDS, Polypipe and Lovell, it has been possible to successfully deliver live stack replacements across 96 individual properties ahead of the timescales set out, with minimum disruption to residents.”