It is our pleasure to indicate that after the release of Code of Practice for HDD recently, different stakeholders have urged IndSTT to bring out the code of practice for Cured in Place Pipelines Suiting Indian Conditions as a substantial numbers of projects requiring such technique are expected to be executed under the JnNURM.

Cured in Place Pipeline Technique, as may be the general information, is quite useful technique which can alleviate expensive open cut pipeline rehabilitation process. Procurement practices, however, are dogged with several uncertainties due to absence of specifications & standards leading to difficulties during various project stages like tendering, award, execution, and during the defect liability periods. Forced with these difficulties, the stakeholders have approached IndSTT to develop such standards.

Based on the requirement IndSTT has compiled a set of special conditions which are going to be the base document for the proposed code of practice. It has been circulated for the evaluation and comments from the interested stakeholders recently.

The expected benefit of this process would be the development of a transparent procurement system leading to a healthy technology application and development benefiting all the stakeholders. With the substantial workload expected to be generated out of this process, it assumes significance.

Interested persons may communicate to IndSTT Secretariat at indstt@indstt.org to receive a copy of this document.