UNE-EN 1610:2016

Foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Definitions
4 General
    4.1 Concepts
    4.2 Safeguarding design assumptions
5 Construction components and materials
    5.1 General
    5.2 Construction components
    5.3 Materials used for embedment
    5.4 Materials used for main backfill
6 Excavation
    6.1 Trenches
    6.2 Trench width
    6.3 Trench stability
    6.4 Trench bottom
    6.5 Dewatering
7 Embedment and support
    7.1 General
    7.2 Bedding construction types
    7.3 Special methods of bedding or support
8 Installation
    8.1 Setting-out
    8.2 Delivery, handling and transportation on site
    8.3 Storage
    8.4 Lifting of components
    8.5 Laying
    8.6 Special constructions
    8.7 Supporting and anchoring
    8.8 Manholes and inspection chambers
9 Connections to pipes and manholes
    9.1 General
    9.2 Connection by junctions
    9.3 Connection by connecting fittings
    9.4 Connection by saddle fittings
    9.5 Connection by welding
    9.6 Connection to manholes and inspection chambers
10 Testing during construction
11 Backfilling
    11.1 Compaction
    11.2 Placement of the embedment
    11.3 Placement of the main backfill
    11.4 Removal of sheeting
    11.5 Surface reinstatement
12 Final inspection and/or testing of pipelines and
    manholes after backfilling
    12.1 Visual inspection
    12.2 Leaktightness
    12.3 Embedment and main backfill
13 Procedures and requirements for testing gravity
    pipelines
    13.1 General
    13.2 Testing with air (method L)
    13.3 Testing with water (method W)
    13.4 Testing individual joints
14 Testing of pressure pipelines
15 Qualifications
Annexes
A (informative) Dewatering
B (informative) Additional information to 5.3.3.1 on
    material properties
C (informative) Abstract from Council Directive of
    17 September 1990 on the procurement procedures of entities
    operating in the water, energy, transport and
    telecommunication sectors

Applies to construction and testing of drains and sewers usually buried in the ground and operating under gravity.