Does new technology sound death knell for traditional materials?
Adam Turk, business development director of Polypipe Commercial Buildings Systems, looks at the implications of the introduction of a new WRAS-approved Polypress system by Polypipe Commercial Building Systems, and asks whether it will herald the beginning of the end of traditional materials in the commercial m&e sector. IN recent years, the battle to replace traditional materials with plastic has never been more keenly fought than in the plumbing arena where the emergence of plastic plumbing systems in the early 1990s coincided with changes in construction methods within the housing market. The biggest change has been seen in house construction, with a number of plastic plumbing systems now widely used in most residential applications. A number of systems are available, all of which adopt push fit technology, typically with either Polybutylene or cross linked Polyethylene (Pex) pipes – the difference being that Polybutylene is a more flexible material and therefore easier to use from t
