AWWA INF53980

Trenchless assessment and rehabilitation will continue to find major use in waterpipeline asset management. Compared to a handful of such technologies that wereavailable to the owner a decade ago, today we have hundreds of technologies inthe market place. More and more clients are opting to privatize their waterpipeline network. The net outcome is that clients want the most done for theleast cost. Although the American trenchless renovation market is huge, mostcompanies will lose in the American contracting climate, given the harshlycompetitive environment. This paper highlights the evolution of the trenchlesspipe rehabilitation business and provides bold predictions of this market for thenext 10 years.