Whether restoring existing assets or building new ones, municipalities need to make reasonable economic decisions about how to best update their wastewater infrastructure. Many could benefit from more knowledge when specifying protective coatings and lining materials and from writing better bid specs.One issue is that municipalities usually don’t have experts on staff qualified to develop complete and accurate coatings project specifications. As a result, specifiers simply choose solutions that worked in the past and use those specifications, no matter how old. They may also approve change requests from bidders without knowing the implications of swapping out technologies. In addition, they
