water leak Articles
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Billion dollar construction company puts an end to water damage - Case Study
Tidhar is a leading construction company that views quality and customer satisfaction as its top values. These values are the driving force behind its continuous innovation and drive to improve. When it identified water leaks as a potential risk to meeting timelines, it chose to eliminate it with cutting edge technology from WINT. The Challenge For Tidhar Construction, the costs and delays from ...
By Wint
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Finding the Invisible Leak - Case Study
How Elk Grove Village is Now Detecting the Previously Undetectable Overview: Large surfacing leaks become very obvious, very quickly. A street floods. A pond appears in a field. Crews mobilize quickly to make repairs. We measure water leaks in gallons-per-minute (GPM). But the more critical companion variable is "run time." Reducing water loss is as much about finding the minor leaks that ...
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Preventing the costly effect of a water leak in an empty building
The devastation of water leaks in unoccupied commercial properties, restaurants, retail outlets or offices is unthinkable. During recent restrictions, many buildings have been left empty. A hidden burst pipe or water leak is a real challenge and can quickly turn into an expensive problem – especially when left unidentified for long periods. A professionally designed and installed leak ...
By Aquilar Ltd
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Why do Water Leaks Matter and How do the Top Facility and Property Managers find them?
Last week was the U.S. EPA WaterSense Program’s ‘Fix a Leak Week,’ encouraging all homeowners, property managers, and facility managers to take a look around their properties to find and fix water leaks. We’re going to show you how to locate and fix both indoor and outdoor water leaks on your property, but first let’s talk a little bit about why water leaks are ...
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Two new products from Sewerin for professional water leak detection
The SeCorr C 200 and SeCorrPhon AC 200 working in conjunction for perfect water leak detection: easy-to-read measurement value display and automated filter selection Hermann Sewerin GmbH has developed two new devices for professional water leak detection: the SeCorr C 200 and the SeCorrPhon AC 200. The portable high-performance SeCorr C 200 correlator enables leaks in underground pipelines ...
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3D model evolution of a leak based on GPR image interpretation
This paper presents some aspects of the time propagation of underground water leakage in controlled laboratory conditions using a drilled polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe and interpreting ground penetrating radar (GPR) images. GPR pre-processed images are interpreted for easy identification and extraction of surfaces and volumes of water leakage. Finally, the temporal evolution of a water leak ...
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Dam safety inspections
This dam safety inspection was carried out to monitor the safety of a stone masonry overflow dam (12m high and 161m long). The geological makeup of the region comprises Ordovician period limestone and loose Quaternary sediments. One set of data was collected by placing 64 electrodes along the dam with 3m spacing. The inversion image below shows the areas aligning with 0+107m to 0+112m and ...
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Empire State Building Improves Sustainability and Prevents Water Damage - Case Study
The Empire State Realty Trust is the owner of the Empire State Building, a part of its larger portfolio. ESRT is a leader in sustainability, healthy buildings, and indoor environmental quality, and is a leader in the implementation of cutting-edge technologies to meet its sustainability goals. Goals Empire State Realty Trust implemented WINT at the Empire State Building to achieve two ...
By Wint
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Nothing phases T-T controls case study
On Thursday 24th March 2011 a London Underground tube line was suspended after a station was flooded by water leaking from the fountains at Trafalgar Square. Contractors working for the Greater London Assembly accidentally chopped through a section of water pipe which feeds the fountains. The London fire brigade was called shortly after 10am with one engine on the scene to pump out water which ...
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What Causes Water Main Leaks?
The number one cause of water leaks today and moving into the future will be the aging infrastructure. “A large part of the US public water system dates back to the years shortly after World War II, therefore, a significant amount of buried infrastructure is at or very near the end of its useful life.” – Qureshi & Shah, Journal AWWA. When aging infrastructure is combined ...
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How to Read a Water Meter to Detect a Leak
After examining your last water bill, you’re worried that you’re using too much water, or worse, you have a water leak in your home. And you’re not alone. According to the EPA, 10 percent of homes in the US have leaks that waste 90 gallons or more each day. You’ve already instituted a 5-minute shower rule and your sprinklers are on timers. You’re thinking you must ...
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Water Leak Test in Dubai - Case Study
City/Country: Dubai / United Arab Emirates Contractor: Jamal Al Sherouq Tech. Cont. Date: April 2021 Service: Training & Supervision service for 1200mm Dia. for water leakage test. PlugCo’s Engineer arrived at the project site in Dubai on April 6th to make water leakage test and train technicians for the ongoing pipe project. IMPLEMENTATION: Their application is to make water leakage ...
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An electromagnetic-based method for pinpointing leaks in buried pipes: a practical validation
In this paper, a time domain reflectometry (TDR)-based solution for detecting water leaks in underground pipes is described and experimentally validated. The proposed method strongly reduces the inspection time that is typically required by traditional leak detection methods. In fact, it can successfully inspect pipes that are hundreds of meters long. In this work, two different configurations ...
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Aquaphon A 50 - the reasonable, entry-level model for professional acoustic water leak detection
New system with compact, handy receiver for prelocating and pinpointing leaks. Just in time for the opening of IFAT - the world’s leading trade fair for water, sewage, waste and raw materials management, 30 May - 3 June 2016 in Munich - Hermann Sewerin GmbH launches a new system for professional electro-acoustic leak detection: the AQUAPHON A 50. The small, lightweight and compact A 50 ...
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Custom clean room temperature control for lithography tool - Case Study
The Challenge: Air Innovations partnered with a semiconductor tool firm to design and build an environmental control unit with once-thru steady-state air to maintain conditions within a semiconductor lithography tool. Inlet air was to be taken from the existing class 1000 controlled environment. The unit needed to conform to a precise footprint: 26” x 30”. The clean room temperature ...
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Property management company saves $100,000 with water flow sensor - Case Study
SUMMARY Joanna Jackson is a Building Performance Specialist with Minto Apartments, an organization that manages 8,800 rental apartment units in seven cities across Canada. After relying on municipal water bills to manage water consumption and costs, Joanna installed the Flowie water flow sensor at 12 buildings and began receiving minute-by-minute water use data. A few months after installation, ...
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Flowie saves Ontario property manager more than $5000 - Case Study
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Paul Kondakos is a real estate investor and the president and CEO of Realty Hub, an online community for “investors to communicate, network, share intelligence and insight” about real estate investment. After an undetected running toilet cost Paul thousands of dollars, he began looking for water sensor technology to prevent high water costs. He installed Flowie ...
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City of Niagara Falls offers discount on technology to help reduce wasted water and utility costs
The City of Niagara Falls is pleased to announce a new discount program to help promote water conservation among homeowners and property managers. The City and Alert Labs are partnering to make it easier for City of Niagara Falls property owners to purchase the Flowie water flow sensor, an Internet of Things (IoT) device which learns water use patterns and sends alerts for unusual activity to ...
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TBox - The Answer for Water Distribution - Case Study
La CILE, Compagnie Intercommunale Liégeoise des Eaux, is located in Liège and was founded in 1913. It is one of the largest water distribution systems in Belgium, serving more than 650,000 people in 23 communities. La CILE has more than 500 water pump stations, water reservoirs, and underground water resources covering more than 3,000 kilometers. The project Since starting ...
By Ovarro
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Adsorption System Treating Contaminated Water: Leaking Tanks near Brampton Endanger Groundwater
Untitled Document Summary: During the spring of 1989, the owners of a combined bulk and gasoline service station in Brampton, Ontario discovered leaks from one of the site's underground storage tanks and from a section of piping supplying the above-ground tanks. Diesel fuel and gasoline were migrating into groundwater as well as escaping into storm sewers and ...
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