Business View Magazine | July 2020

105 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2020 • Water Main Construction • Gas Main Construction • Sewer Construction • Site Utilities • Vacuum Excavation • Directional Drilling • Horizontal Auger Boring • Vault Installation • Manhole Installation • Communications Construction • Concrete Construction • Pump Station Maintenance • Airport Infrastructure • Hospital Infrastructure • Pavement Construction • Sheeting Shoring and Piling • Backflow Prevention • HDPE Pipe Fusion • Emergency Response • Dewatering • Maintenance & Protection of Traffic BANCKER CONSTRUCTION CORP Generations of Integrity, Innovations & Safety 171 Freeman Avenue • Islip, NY 11751 • t: 631-582-8880 • f: 631-582-3698 Off Hours: 1-800-862-0551 • email: bancker@bancker.com • www.bancker.com PPM & BANCKER CONSTRUCTION Improving Infrastructure in NYC PROGRESS I VE P I PEL INE MANAGEMENT want any gas to migrate between the liner and the host pipe because you’d still have a potential gas leak. The CIPP is permeable to gas because the liner has a seam, whereas the CIPL is impermeable and contains the gas because it is a seamless woven polyester hose with a gas- tight layer.” Ragula: “I’ve been in the lining aspect of the industry for 30 plus years. The original CIPL technology came out of Japan and licensed to some contractors in the U.S. That went by the wayside in the mid-‘90s. I was involved with the European technology transfer effort that came across this particular liner at the Copenhagen World Gas Conference in 1997. I was one of the key people instrumental in Americanizing the technology and bringing it to the U.S. It has a very large testing pedigree for gas applications, which no other liner has. I was involved with it when Excelon first picked up the license and then Dave came on board and picked up the license for PPM. So I’ve been with it all along, in