Utilities and infrastructure operations involve large-scale, pressurised systems that run continuously. Interrupting supply — whether water, heat or power — is not straightforward, and in many cases not permissible. Bishop Pipe Freezing has decades of experience working with water providers, power stations, district heating schemes and associated infrastructure, carrying out technically complex work on live systems.
Pipe freezing and line stopping on live mains and distribution pipework
Hot tapping for new connections without supply interruption
Emergency repairs to pressurised mains
Nitrogen purging of pipelines and vessels
Work on district heating schemes including high-temperature systems
Nuclear power station applications
Bishop Pipe Freezing has carried out pipe freezing at nuclear power stations in the UK and internationally, including the first commercial pipe freezing application at a US nuclear facility in 1985. We understand the procedural requirements, documentation standards and operational constraints of nuclear environments.
We have decades of experience working on critical infrastructure systems.