Originally published by the former Institute of Materials, now the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Proceedings of the International Conference held in Munich, Germany in September 2001. The more than 75 papers in this proceedings volume present the latest developments in materials for pipes including technology and business issues, case studies, joints and joining, rehabilitation, lifetime analysis, toughness and crack growth, fracture mechanisms, laying and maintaining plastics pipe systems, non-pressure pipe systems, pipes for use inside buildings and design aspects of plastics pipes.