ABSTRACT
The City of Nanaimo recently completed one of the largest pipe bursting projects in North America. The City applied pipe bursting technology specifically to avoid the extreme environmental impact of performing the project by open-cut methods. This paper outlines the City of Nanaimo’s search for solutions, and how the City of Nanaimo came to focus on pipe bursting as the choice for its Millstone Sanitary Sewer Trunk Upgrade project. It also summarizes the design, tendering and construction stages, and provides an overview of a few critical lessons learned, and observations on the pipe bursting process in general.
