America's Underground Infrastructure Is Falling Apart
Every city runs on infrastructure nobody sees: manholes, lift stations, wet wells. Sewer gas eats the concrete, and years of corrosion end in leaks and lost strength. Cities have spent decades paying for temporary fixes to a permanent problem.
Do It Right Once
Temporary fixes like spray-ons and coatings protect a surface for a short time. Real rehabilitation requires the Triplex Liner: the structure gets its strength and its corrosion protection back in one operation.
That is why cities that have tried both specify the liner. It turns a maintenance cycle into a finished repair.
The Triplex Liner System Is the Permanent Fix
The Triplex Liner is not a coating. It is a new structural wall of fiberglass and a continuous corrosion barrier, cured in place inside the existing structure. The structure gets its strength back and keeps it.
The system has been patented, proven in service, and designed and tested to last up to 100 years in sewer conditions.
It is installed in cities across the United States, Canada and Australia.
How It’s Done
Every liner is measured against the structure it will repair and custom built at our factory. On site, the work moves fast: the structure is prepped, the liner is cured in place, and the structure returns to service. For a typical manhole, installation is completed in a single day.
Engineers can request the full specification package. The disruption a city fears from rehabilitation is the part we engineered out.
Measured and Built
Every liner starts at our factory in Northwest Florida, custom built to the measurements of the structure it will repair, in two pieces: the shaft and the bottom disc.
Prepped and Installed
On site, the structure is cleaned back to sound wall. The crew saturates the liner, lowers it in, presses it into full contact with the structure, and cures it in place with steam and air.
Back in Service
The inlets and outlets are cut and reopened, and the structure returns to service with a new structural wall inside the old one. Installation for a typical manhole is completed the same day.
Built for the Toughest Jobs
Deep, in freezing temperatures, in the middle of Edmonton, Alberta. Some structures are critical to a city's health and nearly impossible to take offline: deep, downtown, on streets that cannot close. That is the work this system was built for. The liner goes in through the opening that is already there, one piece, built for that structure, and the street is back the same day.
Working in Virginia
We work with Virginia municipalities, utility districts and consulting engineers on manhole, lift station and wet well rehabilitation. If rehabilitation is in your capital plan, we can help scope and specify it.
Triplex Liners in Virginia
Virginia has Triplex Liner work behind it, since 1992. Every one of them was made at our plant in Northwest Florida, built to the measurements of the structure it was going into, and cured in place inside it.
Cities in Virginia With Triplex Liners in the Ground
Ft. Lee, Danville, Norfolk, James City, Poquoson, Williamsburg, Chesapeake, King'S Grant, Winchester, James City Co., Keysville and Virginia Beach.
Where We Take Projects in Virginia
We take projects across the state. Richmond, Arlington, Newport News, Alexandria, East Hampton, Hampton, Roanoke, Portsmouth Heights, Portsmouth and Suffolk, and the districts and authorities between them.
What Virginia Asks of a Manhole
Virginia sets its manhole standard by depth. The sewage collection and treatment regulations cap leakage at a quarter of a gallon per hour for every foot of manhole depth, and they are explicit that the whole structure from the invert to the top of the rim is what gets tested.
The number is the easy part. The hard part is that a corroded structure has nothing left to hold the number with. Lining rebuilds the wall and the corrosion barrier in one operation, inside the structure that is already there, so what gets tested afterward is the liner rather than what the sewer gas left behind.
Three Ways In
What the liner costs a city over its life, and what the warranty covers.
Go →Writing a spec?EngineersRequest the specification package: product data, section details and specification language.
Go →Install for a living?ContractorsThe Triplex system is licensed to trained contractors, and we are signing across the country.
Go →Questions We Get in Virginia
Is this a coating?
No. It is a structural fiberglass liner fabricated for one structure and cured in place inside it.
What kinds of structures can be lined?
Manholes, lift stations, wet wells, pump stations and culverts, whatever their size or shape.
What does this do to our operations?
Less than most rehabilitation work. A typical manhole is out of service for a single shift and back in service the same day.
We have active infiltration. Is that a problem?
Usually not. Being able to line a structure that is still taking water is one of the reasons the system was developed. Very heavy infiltration, or a structure that has started to fail structurally, needs other measures first.
How long does it last?
The liner is designed and tested to last up to 100 years in sewer conditions. Manholes carry a twenty-year warranty, and lift stations and wet wells carry ten years.
Can we write this into a specification?
Yes. We issue a specification package to the engineer of record on request, with product data, section details and guide specification language.