Underground Construction - November 2021 - UCT8

UCT PRIMARY EDUCATION PROGRAM
11:00-11:25
Walt's War Stories: A Look at Several Damage
Incidents
Speaker: Walt Kelly, Walt Kelly Enterprises Inc.
Get detailed insight into several underground
damage incidents, by expert witness, and see
how mistaken assumptions, plans gone wrong,
missed clues, weather and poorly written tickets
can lead to property damage, injury, and death.
11:30-11:55
Accountability & Responsibility
Speaker: Hap Pigsley, Hap Pigsley Consulting
LLC
Gain better understanding of OSHA standards
and how to use them to improve eff ectiveness of
a Safety Program. Also get ideas to apply to your
daily work tasks and make the safety program an
integral part of your Business Plan - and success.
TRACK VI=POWER & GAS UTILITY
8:30-9:25
How Virtual Reality Prepares Field Workers to
Monitor, Protect Pipeline Assets
Speakers: Amy Lineback, and John Diasparra,
Duke Energy
Learn about an in-house Virtual Reality (VR)/
Augmented Reality (AR) team, see a demo of
modules developed for the Natural Gas Business
and have the opportunity to experience the VR
world, fi rst-hand.
9:30-9:55
Acoustic Methods to Detect Infrastructure Cross
Bores
Speakers: Pradheep Kileti and Thomas Bennett,
National Grid PLC
Developed with ULC Robotics, acoustic methods
are designed to minimize the inherent risk of
cross bores during trenchless underground
installations. Learn more about the technology
and its fi eld-trial evaluation.
10:00-10:25
New Solutions for Isolating Gas Distribution
Pipelines
Speaker: Ryan Ragsdale, TD Williamson
Learn about new isolation technology and tools
that allow operators to safely address common
job-site challenges - in both steel applications
and polyethylene networks.
10:30-10:55
Fiber-Optic Leak, ROW Intrusion Detection:
Challenges, Mitigations from Operator's
Perspective
Speaker: Paul Stevenson, Intelli-DAS, LLC
Get a high-level overview of distributed acoustic
sensing technology, using the 1,800-mile US
Pipeline, for detecting fi ber-optic leak and
right-of-way intrusions; the challenges and
issues operators encountered; and the mitigation
eff orts.
11:00-11:25
A Review of States' Regulatory Damage
Prevention Programs
Speaker: Khalid Farrag, Gas Technology
Institute
As an aid to increasing safety knowledge and
actions, learn about the process and results of
an investigation into the relationship between
damage-prevention enforcement programs in the
50 states and the excavation damage rate.
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11:30-11:55
Reducing the Consequences of Gas Pipeline
Damage
Speakers: David Heldenbrand and Daniel
Saavedra, Project Manager, Bison Engineering
Inc.
Through case histories, the presentation
examines gas pipeline damage, and actual fi res
or explosions, and reviews the consequences.
The goal is to facilitate decision-making that will
reduce the incidence and impact of such events.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26
TRACK I-C = SEWER CONSTRUCTION &
REHABILITATION
8:30-8:55
Interceptor Design in an Alluvial Floodplain
Speakers: Greg Vaughn, Lockwood, Andrews &
Newnam Inc.; Kelly Davis, Trinity River Authority
of Texas
Understand diff erent approaches to installing a
large-diameter interceptor in poor soils, and the
innovative thinking that went into designing the
selected solution.
9:00-9:25
City of Hurst Replaces Critical Sewer Interceptor
using Minimally Invasive Pipe-Bursting
Technology
Speaker: Shawn Garcia, Underground Solutions
Through innovative design, close coordination
and collaboration, and unique funding
opportunities, a pipe-bursting method
successfully upgraded a wastewater line and met
the City's needs for reduced utility costs.
9:30-9:55
CIPP Curing Monitoring System Technology:
Improving Installation Quality, Verifying Curing
Completeness
Speaker: Nick Patrick, Vortex Companies
Learn how a curing monitoring system (CMS)
delivers a variety of tools that help improve the
overall quality of CIPP projects. Includes realworld
results from installation contractors who
have adopted CMS as part of their CIPP standard
operating procedures.
10:00-10:25
Diversify your Lateral, Mainline Rehabilitation
Program
Speaker: Jerry Botts, InnerCure Technologies
Innovative lateral rehabilitation technologies can
give asset owners complete system versatility
related to lateral and mainline rehabilitation.
Additional considerations include implementing
a program for private-side lateral rehabilitation to
properly mitigate I&I concerns.
10:30-10:55
Inexpensive I&I reduction Verifi cation for Small
Systems
Speakers: George Kurz, Sewer Capacity
Management; Robert O'Dette, Tennessee
Division of Water Resources
See the value of before-after fl ow and rainfall
monitoring, and gain access to a simple tool
for analyzing the data you already collect, to
determine level of I&I and RDI&I, and evaluate
eff ectiveness of sewer rehabilitation work.
11:00-11:25
UV Lateral Lining
Speaker: Kevan Taylor, Waterline Renewal
Technologies
Seeing is believing, so plenty of photos and live
demonstrations illustrate the advantages of using
state-of-the-are, low-voltage, UV Led lights,
versus the standard thermal application, for CIPP
lining of any host pipe materials in pipes.
11:30-11:55
Growth by the Numbers: Projected Sewershed
Growth
Speaker: Delaney MacDonald, CP&Y Inc.
Learn the methods used to discover existing
and future (2070) sewershed and enabled a new
sanitary sewer outfall design for Rel Rio, Texas.
TRACK I-D = SEWER CONSTRUCTION
& REHABILITATION
8:30-9:55
NASSCO: CIPP, Styrene Emissions Best Practices
Overview of concerns with CIPP styrene
emissions, including a review of CIPP technology
and explanation of styrene exposure limits
and defi nitions. Includes results and specifi c
recommendations from NASSCO-funded
research.
10:00-10:25
Large-Diameter Storm Outfall Rehabilitation
with Geopolymer Lining in Houston
Speakers: Joe Royer, GeoTree Solutions; Justin
Mouton, Inland Pipe Rehabilitation
A complex project that made traditional
rehabilitation methods unfeasible, used a
geopolymer material, designed to provide a fully
structural and monolithic rehabilitation of the
existing stormwater infrastructure, and allow for a
minimally disruptive, cost-eff ective solution.
10:30-10:55
Hidden Capacity in Wastewater Interceptors?
How Non-Uniform Flow Modeling Impacts Pipe
Sizing
Speaker: Evan Tromble, Garver
Gain better understanding of hydraulic modeling
for non-uniform fl ow conditions and how to use it
to uncover hidden capacity, and be prepared for
future capacity evaluations.
11:00-11:25
Current State of Practice: Municipal/DOT StormSewer
Inspection, Evaluation for Acceptance
Speaker: Al Hogan, American Concrete Pipe
Association
Detailed review of inspection and evaluation
criteria for installed storm culverts or sewer
piping systems, being followed by local and state
DOTs, and how to access related tools.
11:30-11:55
Structural Testing of CMP - Lined and Unlined -
with Structural Polymeric Resin Chemistry
Speakers: Anthony Hughes and Chip Johnson,
P.E., Sprayroq Inc.
Details about multi-state DOT-funded, universityled
study that demonstrates polymeric
spray-applied liner was structurally capable of
performing inside the host pipe (pipe-in-pipe) and
could solely resist the applied ring compression.
TRACK I-E = SEWER/WATER
CONSTRUCTION & REHABILITATION
8:30-9:25
Landmark Year for Sewer/Water Infrastructure
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