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High Flow Projects – Reef Island Bahrain

Over the last five years building work has continued at Reef Island in Bahrain and this year Flovac has added its proprietary wireless monitoring system to assist the operations group with troubleshooting the system. When design work commenced on the Reef Island project in 2008 many engineers suggested that vacuum systems could not be designed […]

NZ’s First Vacuum System Wins Major Environmental Award

wastewater system at Kawakawa Bay, Auckland, New Zealand has been awarded an Environmental and Sustainability Award at the Arthur Mead Awards Function. Flovac’s system was awarded one of three prizes, which was presented by IPENZ, Auckland Branch. The awards are named after Auckland City Waterworks Engineer, Arthur Mead, who performed the initial survey and created the […]

Preston’s Housing Development in Christchurch

It’s a case of one down and 2599 to go at the biggest subdivision in Christchurch. The single house under construction in the Prestons housing development in Christchurch will not be alone for long. The milestone of Prestons’ first house was marked by a visit from Prime Minister John Key this week, five years after […]

Flovac Train Project Canada

Flovac has just completed its first train extraction system in Canada at the Willowbrook Maintenance facilities for the Go Transit group in Toronto.   As trains come into the yard maintenance crews can hook up a vacuum hose via a fitting to the trains sewage holding tanks. The tank is evacuated via a push button […]

Earthquake Sewer System for Christchurch NZ

Vacuum Sewers prove to be the best Earthquake sewer system for Christchurch Shirley vacuum sewer a first for the South Island. SCIRT partner McConnell Dowell is more than halfway through a big project to build a Flovac vacuum wastewater system in the Christchurch residential suburb of Shirley – the first area of the South Island to […]

Coping in a world with less water

The Downside of Saving Water In recent times severe water shortages in many parts of the world have led Water Authorities and consumers to rethink how water is used in households. Water restrictions in many areas have drastically cut the amount of potable water used, with car washing and garden watering severely restricted. Water savings […]

Bilad Seet Vacuum Sewerage System

The Ministry of Regional Municipalities and Water Resources in the Sultanate of Oman has again awarded the job of design and installation of a vacuum system for one of Sultantes most historic towns. This newest project at the small town of Bilad Seet about 175 km north of Muscat. In 2001 the Ministry also awarded […]