Benefits and Applications

The benefits from utilizing keyhole technology are almost too numerous to mention - and applications are growing every year. It is a true win-win-win technology. Not only is it better for the community in which it is used, it is a better process for those using it, the crew, and perhaps most importantly for the planet on which we all live. It is a green technology that results in a dramatically smaller carbon footprint when compared to traditional construction techniques. It saves tax payers and utility companies millions of dollars when compared to traditional methods of utility patch repair.

See below for just a few reasons why your company or your community should be encouraging its use wherever possible.

Benefits for the utility company, their contractors, and the municipality:

• Saves Money: Dramatically reduces paving budgets. Saves up to $1,000 per hole or $1 million or more per year vs. traditional cut & repair methods.
• Positive Community Relations: Faster less intrusive process. Fewer complaints from municipalities about traffic disruption, unsightly road cuts, sunken patches or weakened or failed roads.
• 100% Performance Index: Field-proven process with ZERO reported failures in more than 20 years and over 100,000 successful core reinstatements in tough urban climates.
• Improved Logistics: Single crew, one-stop, same-day coring and pavement reinstatement means simplified scheduling, no temporary patching or repaving and no repeat visits.
• Faster & Efficient: The speed with which the Utilibond gains strength - 50,000 lbs. In 30 minutes @ 70° F, (can support 5 traffic buses) is unique and  not seen in other pavement restoration processes. Time is money. Instead of waiting around and hour or more until other products gain sufficient strength to reopen the road, with Utilibond, after just 30 minutes the road can be safely reopened to traffic, allowing the crew to move on to other jobs.

Benefits for the Crew:

• Easy to Operate: No extensive training required to operate the coring unit.
• Easy on the Back: Coring and reinstatement is physically less demanding on the crew. It eliminates the need for jack-hammers, shovels and backhoes and reduces potential for workplace injury.
• Easy to Use: Utilibond™ permanent pavement repair compound is packaged in easy-carry, easy-open, pre-measured pails. No awkward measuring and mixing from fragile paper bags and no guesswork. Just add water to the line, mix and pour into the hole.
• Safe: Work-safe engineered equipment and non-hazardous bonding materials.
• Reliable: Utilicor coring units are the only Heavy Duty, purpose-built, coring equipment capable of quickly and accurately cutting through asphalt, asphalt-concrete and reinforced concrete road systems and sidewalks with a minimum of effort.

Benefits for the Community:

• Reduced Traffic Disruption: Faster one-step permanent pavement repair means reduced traffic disruption with fewer and shorter road closings and no repeat visits. The road can be reopened to traffic just 30 minutes after the repair.
• Saves Tax Dollars: Less intrusive, more precise, pavement coring and reinstatement process means less structural damage to road system, longer pavement life and reduced maintenance. Saves millions of tax dollars.
• Environmentally Friendly with Reduced Carbon Footprint: This is a one-stop road closure that uses the same materials to repair the road that were used to build it in the first place.  No road-cut spoil needs to be trucked away and disposed of and no temporary patching materials with volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) that escape into the atmosphere are used in the process. As a result, keyhole coring and reinstatement emits less than ONE-SIXTH of the amount of green house gases (GHG) than an equivalent repair using conventional methods.
• Cleaner, Safer, Less Intrusive Worksite: Neat, almost invisible, 18-inch diameter circular, keyhole core (area: 1.75 sq. ft.) vs. 2 ft. x 4 ft. conventional rectangular road cut (area: 8 sq. ft.) means a perfectly matching repair and reduced ‘scarring’ of the community landscape. No jackhammers or large excavation equipment means less noise and mess during and after the excavation and reduced disruption for neighbors.

Keyhole Applications:

• Cast iron main joint repair, anaerobic injection or encapsulation.
• Sacrificial anode installation for gas or water mains.
• Installation of new gas services through their electro fusion or bolt-on saddles.
• Gas cap replacements.
• Low pressure service cut offs.
• Test holes (pot-holing) in advance of horizontal directional drilling (HDD)
• Soil sampling (environmental).
• Utility Locating - Subsurface Utility Engineering - obtaining "Z" coordinates for "A" level S.U.E work.
• Abandoned gas main sectionalizing.
• Water and gas valve box installations and leveling.