Underground Construction - August 2022 - 26
Center for Underground
Infrastructure Research & Education
Volume 13, NO. 2-August 2022
CONVENTIONPREVIEW
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From the CUIRE Director
CUIRE - Forging Ahead in
Research, Education and Outreach
It is hard to believe that 20 years have
passed since
the Center for Underground
Infrastructure Research and Education
(CUIRE) was established. In
2000, a trenchless technology conference
was held at Michigan State University
(MSU). At the end of that conference,
a group of industry leaders voted
to establish CUIRE.
In August 2006, I accepted an assistant
professor position at the University
of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Department
of Civil Engineering. The founding
members of CUIRE voted unanimously
to bring CUIRE to UTA. On Dec.
1, 2006, with help of Dr. Johnny Matthys,
a professor at the CE Department
(now retired), we held the first trenchless
technology and pipe conference at
UTA. Ralph Carpenter with American
Cast Iron Pipe Company (now retired),
Joe Lundy and Sam Arnaout with Hanson
Pipe and Precast (now Forterra Pipe
& Precast and Thompson Pipe Group)
provided funding support for an inaugural
meeting of industry professionals to
officially establish CUIRE at UTA.
Since then, CUIRE has become a
major resource for industries all over
the world. We have supported trenchless
conferences in China, India, Turkey,
Malaysia, Hong Kong and the United
Arab Emirates (UAE) (specifically
Qatar and Abu Dhabi) and helped to
establish trenchless research centers in
some of these countries.
Training, Education
In the U.S., we worked with the Underground
Construction Technology International
Conference & Exhibition
(UCT) to conduct annual Trenchless
Technology Training and Certification
Schools. Recently, in March 2022, we
teamed up with Buried Asset Management
International (BAMI-I) and Utility
Engineering & Surveying Institute
(UESI) to host a five-day Utility Investigation
School (UIS) at UTA.
We also hosted Trenchless Technology
& Pipe Conference (TTP 2022)
last May for the Regional South-Central
Chapter of NASTT. Through these outreach
efforts, more than 3,000 industry
professionals have been trained in
trenchless technology methods.
CUIRE leadership has also developed
graduate and senior-level civil engineering
and construction courses in pipelines
and trenchless technology, which are offered
every summer at UTA.
We have had five books published by
McGraw-Hill and helped ASCE comHole-spanning
Test Apparatus
CUIRE Soil Box Facility with a 300-kip MTS Actuator
26 AUGUST 2022 | UCONonline.com
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