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Cement conduits and cable covers are usually grey, and are hard and brittle. Asbestos cement conduit was widely used in pit and duct systems in Sydney’s central business district.
Moulded cement conduits may be empty or contain cables. They were used for:
routing electrical cables in and out of substations
drainage under road crossings, footpaths and substations
spare conduit alongside roads.
Asbestos may be found in the fibre cement material in:
high-voltage cable joint covers
cable trench covers
troughing used to encase joints, both direct buried and in pits
substation concrete slabs.
Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Community infrastructure and spaces, Agricultural & horticultural
Electrical and power boxes, Plumbing and drainage
Electricity cable ducting and drainage systems.
FC conduits, Air conditioning ducts, ducts, cable joint covers, cable trench covers
Broken conduits and covers that do not contain asbestos will usually have a clean break.
Broken asbestos-containing conduits and covers may show visible fibres.
Grey, hard and brittle.
