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TISCO builds "urban vessels" for sub-center of Beijing

By CHEN Xin UpDate 2018-03-20

TISCO wins the bid of stainless steel water supply pipeline for the utility tunnel of administrative area in sub-center of Beijing among fierce competition in more than thirty enterprises. TISCO stands out with high quality products and services, becoming the only supplier of the water supply pipeline in stainless steel pipe.
 
Beijing sub-center is not only a need for adjusting the spatial pattern of Beijing, governing the urban disease and expanding the new development space, but also a need for promoting the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and exploring the mode to develop and optimize the economic and populated dense area. The scope of the sub-center is original Tongzhou New City Area with a total area of about 155 square kilometers. The central government made it clear that Beijing sub-center city will be built as an ecological city which is fresh and bright with blue water and green land by intensive and compact development, and it will be built as a demonstration area of international first-class harmonious livable city, a demonstration area of new urbanization and a demonstration area of coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
 
Utility tunnel is the world's advanced facilities of municipal management, through laying the pipelines of electricity, communications, radio and television, water supply and other municipal pipeline, the technical personnel can make urgent repair, maintenance, extension and renovation quickly which can effectively eliminate "road zipper" phenomenon and is a fundamental task crucial for generations of the urban construction. As a benchmarking project of Beijing city sub-center with high starting point and high standard, Beijing sub-center city utility tunnel project has strict requirements on the facilities and equipment inside the tunnel, water supply pipeline is one of them.
 
Compared with the traditional water supply pipes made of carbon steel, cast iron and plastic, stainless steel pipe has advantages of high strength, corrosion resistance, long service life, maintenance free and environment friendly, which greatly reduce the comprehensive cost and also can effectively guarantee the water quality, therefore, it is no doubt that it is the first selection of material for high quality water system. In order to provide more safer, more economical and more environment friendly stainless steel material to this landmark project, TISCO builds a special team with personnel from marketing, technology and production departments, around the user needs, the team first summarize material application situation of similar projects at home and abroad and makes contrast analysis with traditional material, and then makes intensive communication with Design Institute, the buyer and industry experts for many times, finally puts forward a package solution for stainless steel material selection, custom specifications, stainless steel pipe welding processing technical guidance and etc. The three parties of designer, buyer and construction side are moved by TISCO for their significant advantages of products and sincere dedication of teamwork and finally decide to adopt TISCO’s scheme.
 
Over the years, TISCO stainless steel pipes are widely used in water supply and drainage engineering. The utility tunnel in Guangzhou University Town is the longest one of 18 km in china so far and already put into operation with the largest scale and the most integrated system. Its water supply pipeline is made of TISCO stainless steel and remains zero maintenance record in 12 years operation. TISCO stainless steel pipe are also applied in the water supply systems of supporting project for 2008 Olympic Games, CCTV headquarters, capital international airport T3 terminal building, 301 hospitals and etc.