Posted on August 17, 2026
Concrete pipe lifespan regularly reaches 75 to 100 years in properly designed and installed systems, but that number isn’t a guarantee that comes standard with the material. A pipe’s design and installation determine whether a given project actually reaches that mark or falls short of it years early. At AmeriTex Pipe & Products, we manufacture – Read the full article →
Posted on August 17, 2026
A precast concrete headwall sits at the outlet of a pipe or culvert and does one job with real consequences if it fails: it controls how water leaves the pipe so the surrounding soil doesn’t wash away underneath it. So why do so many drainage failures still trace back to an outlet that was never – Read the full article →
Posted on August 17, 2026
An underground detention system stores stormwater runoff beneath a site’s surface so the land above can be used for parking, buildings, or green space instead of an open retention pond, but does burying the system actually save money once you account for excavation and maintenance access? In most urban and suburban infill projects, the answer – Read the full article →
Posted on August 17, 2026
Rubber gasketed concrete pipe has become the standard specification for engineers who need a joint system that stays watertight for the life of the project, so why do so many specifications still default to older joint types out of habit rather than performance data? Gasketed joints outperform mortar and mastic alternatives on nearly every metric – Read the full article →
Posted on July 17, 2026
Tongue-and-groove concrete pipe joints operate on a simple mechanical principle: a male tongue formed on one end of a pipe section fits into a matching groove on the adjacent section, and a sealant placed in that joint fills the annular space once the pipe is pushed home. It’s one of the two joint systems we – Read the full article →
Posted on July 17, 2026
Precast concrete box culverts move faster through a Texas highway or municipal project for one reason that often gets lost in the product specs: the concrete cures at the plant, not on your job site. A cast-in-place box culvert requires footings to be poured and cured, then walls formed and poured, then a deck poured – Read the full article →
Posted on July 17, 2026
Every open ditch on a site plan is land that isn’t doing anything else. It carries water during a storm and sits there the rest of the time, taking up frontage that could be parking, green space, or buildable lot area. Concrete arch culverts solve a specific version of this problem: how do you move – Read the full article →
Posted on July 17, 2026
Every drainage engineer eventually runs into the same problem: the hydraulic calculation says you need a certain amount of waterway area, but the site doesn’t have the vertical clearance to install a round pipe of that size underground. Reinforced arch pipe was designed to solve exactly that conflict. Instead of forcing a round cross-section into – Read the full article →
Posted on June 8, 2026
Picking the right sewer pipe size sounds like it should be one of the simpler decisions on a collection system project. In practice, it’s where the most downstream problems start – usually because the decision was made too fast. Get the size wrong in either direction, and you’re looking at a system that can’t handle – Read the full article →
Posted on June 8, 2026
What separates infrastructure that holds up for a century from infrastructure that needs attention a decade after installation? In large part, it comes down to material selection – and the decision made at the specification stage, long before a single pipe hits the ground. In Texas, where drainage systems face intense, short-duration storms, heavy highway – Read the full article →
