Program Design, Engineering Key To Infrastructure Replacement And Cost Containment

摘要

Infrastructure. It's a word we'll hear a great deal about in the next few years due to U.S. government stimulus funding. The natural gas distribution industry, unfortunately, shouldn't count on federal funds for our infrastructure concerns. Other than the occasional parallel construction with a public works project - to possibly save resurfacing costs - we're pretty much on our own. That has been the case for our industry since the 1960s when plastic pipe was first used to replace bare steel and cast iron in the approximately 2 million miles of distribution pipeline now delivering natural gas to homes, offices, businesses, schools, and hospitals in the U.S.