Rigid water pipes, fit for the future
Water infrastructures – such as pipes, sewers or water storages – are rigid systems. They are renewed according to certain renovation cycles. This can take up to 70 years for municipal sewage systems and up to 30 years for baths in rental apartments. “That has to be considered when creating concepts for the future of the water infrastructure,“ says Dr.-Ing. Thomas Hillenbrand, scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe.