Please join the North American Society for
Trenchless Technology – Northwest Chapter and the Tunneling Association of Canada in the promotion of trenchless technologies during the 2008 Alberta Trenchless Symposium to be held in Edmonton on November 13.

This is the 12th annual presentation of this highly successful event. This exciting event draws significant attendance from municipalities, private utilities, consultants, and contractors from across Alberta. 

November 12, 2008 - Short Course

November 13, 2008 - Technical Presentations & Tradeshow

Location: Mayfield Inn, Edmonton, Alberta

For more information, including registration, please click here to be redirected to the Alberta Trenchless Conference page of our website.

Conference Technical Presentation Program:

7:30 am Registration, Breakfast, & Trade Show
8:30 am Welcoming Address - Dan Willems, Conference Chair
8:40 am Keynote Address - Chris Brahler, NASTT Vice Chair
9:00 am Kanal Wankdorf-Aare Tunnel Project, Bern, Switzerland, A Case History - Walter Trisi, Lovat Inc.
9:30 am 3D Optical Scanning Camera Sewer Inspection System - Tom Dehod, City of Saskatoon
10:00 am Coffee Break & Trade Show
10:30 am Geotechnical Baseline Reports for Trenchless Projects - Heinrich Heinz & Paulo Branco, Thurber Engineering Ltd.
11:00 am 114 Street University of Alberta Deep Sewer Hand Tunnel - Jamie Goosney, Stantec Consulting Ltd.
11:30 am Lunch Break & Trade Show
1:00 pm Water Under the River: An EPCOR Water Services Transmission Main River Crossing - Binod Rajbhandari and Alan Miller – City of Edmonton - Design and Construction and Associated Engineering
1:30 pm Virginia Natural Gas Hampton Roads Crossing Pipeline HDD Installation - Ron Halderman, Mears Group, Inc.
2:00 pm Airdrie SmartBall Leak Detection - Jeff Kler, Pure Technologies
2:30 pm Coffee Break & Trade Show
3:00 pm Saskatoon CIPP Lining and Flow Bypass Case Study - Simon Angus, Michels Canada
3:30 pm Calgary 15 Street Sanitary Sewer Siphon Upgrade - Duane Strayer, Associated Engineering
4:00 pm Resthaven Pipeline Crossing - Jodie Cissell, Pembina Pipeline Corp.
4:30 pm Closing Remarks and Grand Prize Draw

In conjunction with the 2008 Alberta Trenchless Conference, the NASTT-NW Chapter is proud to be presenting a pre-conference short course. The short course for 2008 is NASTT’s New Installation Methods Good Practices Short Course.

The one-day short course addresses a number of trenchless methods commonly used to install new pipe and pipe casings. These methods include: auger boring, pipe ramming, pipe jacking and the pilot tube method. The key to any successful project is using the right construction method. The NASTT New Installation Methods Good Practices Seminar will help you to determine which method to use under various project conditions and requirements using examples and case studies to illustrate. The course is ideally suited for municipal engineers, utility personnel, designers, managers, owners and contractors who are involved in the construction, rehabilitating and managing of underground utilities. Click here for additional information from NASTT regarding the short course.

For more information about the conference, including registration, please click here to be redirected to the Alberta Trenchless Conference page of our website. Registration for the short course is not included with general registration for the 2008 Alberta Trenchless Conference.

Course Agenda:

NASTT Course instructors – Glenn Boyce, Ph.D., P.E., senior associate, and Craig Camp, senior trenchless engineer, both of whom are employed with Jacobs Associates in California.

8:00 am Check-in & Registration
8:30 am Opening Remarks & Introductions
8:45 am Chapter 1 – Introduction of Trenchless Methods for New Installations
9:15 am Chapter 2 – Importance of Understanding of Subsurface Conditions
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Chapter 3 – Site Set-up, Shafts, Pits and Portals
10:45 am Chapter 4 – Pilot Tube Method
11:45 am Lunch
12:45 pm Chapter 5 – Auger Boring
1:45 pm Chapter 6 – Pipe Ramming
2:45 pm Break
3:00 pm Chapter 7 – Pipe Jacking
4:00 pm Chapter 8 – Casing vs. Product Pipe and Grouting
4:30 pm Chapter 9 – Examples, Case Studies and Wrap-up
5:15 pm Q&A Period, Closing Remarks & Course Evaluations
5:15 pm Course Adjourned

Note: Course Agenda is subject to change.

NASTT Colleagues and Friends,

Please join us for the second technical lunch of the 2009-10 season on Thursday October 15.

This month’s speaker will be Brent Goerz P.Eng. of Complete Crossings Inc.(CCI).   Brent Goerz has over 15 years of experience in the Pipeline and Trenchless Engineering and Construction industries. Brent graduated from the U of A with a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in 1996.  He  started out his career with Midwest General Contractor’s and Somerville and moved into the design engineering field with Colt Engineering, Entec and now CCI.  Brent is now the Vice President of Engineering and Principal of CCI specializing in pipeline installations by open trench and trenchless methods.

CSA Z662-07 Oil and Gas Pipeline Systems have addressed HDD installations, unlike previous years, and have given some structure and guidelines to assess feasibility and provide some construction guidelines for the work.  Brent will review the guidelines, provide examples of how the basic guidelines can be implemented practically, and provide how these standards can be improved to suite general design concerns.  This presentation will also review two recent case studies that were implement under the CSA guidelines.

Pre-registration is now closed. We reserve a few extra seats for walk-ins. If you are a member and haven’t pre-registered, please ensure to bring your NASTT member card to demonstrate proof of membership.

Place: University of Alberta Faculty Club, Papaschase Room, 11435 Saskatchewan Drive

Time: 11:30 am Registration
12:00 pm Lunch
12:30 pm Guest Speaker
1:30 pm Adjournment

Cost: Members: $20.00*
Non-Members: $30.00
Students: $10.00 (valid student card required)

* Note: Membership status will be verified against NASTT’s latest member list. If your name is not on the member list, you will be required to pay the non-member rate. Please be aware that NASTT corporate memberships entitle the company to a total of 6 individual representatives, the names of whom must be provided to NASTT for updating the member list; if your company is a corporate member, please ensure you are a designated membership representative if you plan on registering for NASTT events at the member rate.

Payment will be taken at the door, by cash or cheque only.

Regards,

Alan Miller, P.Eng.
NASTT-NW Chapter
Edmonton Section Chair

NASTT Colleagues and Friends,

Please join us for the first technical lunch of the 2009-10 season on Thursday September 24.

This month’s speaker will be Louis-Philippe Dube of IPEX. Louis-Philippe Dubé has over 12 years of experience in the municipal PVC pipe market at IPEX, first as a Technical Sales Representative and then as the Marketing Manager for Québec; he has been involved in the launch of several new products and regional technical committees.  He has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Laval University. Louis-Philippe Dubé is now the Market Development Manager for Fusible PVCTM Products at IPEX Inc.

Over 850 Fusible PVCTM pipes installation have been successfully complete in North America over the past 10 years.  Now, 1 year after the Canadian launch, IPEX’s Fusible BruteTM pipes have been used on several projects across the country.  This presentation will review two recent case studies in more detail: one project in Edmonton and one in St-Henri-de-Taillon.

Pre-registration is now closed. We reserve a few extra seats for walk-ins. If you are a member and haven’t pre-registered, please ensure to bring your NASTT member card to demonstrate proof of membership.

Place: University of Alberta Faculty Club, Papaschase Room, 11435 Saskatchewan Drive

Time: 11:30 am Registration
12:00 pm Lunch
12:30 pm Guest Speaker
1:30 pm Adjournment

Cost: Members: $20.00*
Non-Members: $30.00
Students: $10.00 (valid student card required)

* Note: Membership status will be verified against NASTT’s latest member list. If your name is not on the member list, you will be required to pay the non-member rate. Please be aware that NASTT corporate memberships entitle the company to a total of 6 individual representatives, the names of whom must be provided to NASTT for updating the member list; if your company is a corporate member, please ensure you are a designated membership representative if you plan on registering for NASTT events at the member rate.

Payment will be taken at the door, by cash or cheque only.

Regards,

Alan Miller, P.Eng.
NASTT-NW Chapter
Edmonton Section Chair

NASTT Colleagues and Friends,

Please join us for the sixth technical lunch of the 2008-09 season on Thursday April 23.

This month’s speaker will be Anis Somani from The Pressure Pipe Inspection Company. A chemical engineer with a background in business management, Anis has over 20 years of various industrial experience. Since 2002, Anis has dedicated his expertise to the water industry, specifically condition assessment of transmission mains. He is currently the business development manager for PPIC, responsible for bringing advanced technologies for the assessment of transmission mains to water and wastewater agencies in Canada and the US. Anis has presented at many local and national conferences, and is recognized for helping large utilities meet their asset management goals.

Anis will be speaking to us about proven technologies for the condition assessment of water and waste water pipes. He will speak on use of remote field eddy current/transformer coupling for detecting and quantifying wire breaks in PCCP (C301), strategic acoustic monitoring (24/7 listening for wire events) of the inspected PCCP, Sahara leak detection, Sahara video, Sahara zero leak for new pipes, and transient pressure monitors.

Pre-registration for this event is closed. We reserve some additional seats for walkins, just notify the registration desk that you haven’t pre-registered.

Place: University of Alberta Faculty Club, Papaschase Room, 11435 Saskatchewan Drive

Time: 11:30 am Registration
  12:00 pm Lunch
  12:30 pm Guest Speaker
  1:30 pm Adjournment

Cost: Members: $20.00
  Non-Members: $30.00
  Students: $10.00 (valid student card required)

Payment will be taken at the door, by cash or cheque only.

Regards,

Dan Willems, P.Eng.
NASTT-NW Chapter
Edmonton Section Chair

NASTT Colleagues and Friends,

Please join us for the fifth technical lunch of the 2008-09 season on Thursday March 19.

This month’s speakers will be D. Philip Alex and Siri Fernando of The City of Edmonton’s Drainage Services, Design and Construction Branch.

Alex and Siri will be speaking to us about the innovative trenchless practices adopted by the City of Edmonton. Historically, the City has been one of the front runners in the advancement of trenchless technology within North America.  The City’s expertise in the field of trenchless technology has by far been the most wide spread and thus been declared as the pioneer municipality in the incorporation of the trenchless technologies. With an extensive fleet of in-house equipments, the City is constantly advancing their expertise through the purchase of newer and well equipped machines like the state of the art technologies like the drill rig and the Pilot Tube Micro-tunnelling machine. This presentation will highlight the evolution from the traditional practices to the new practices involving new equipment, research, risk management and mitigation based on simulation studies.

Pre-registration for this event is closed. We reserve some additional seats for walkins, just notify the registration desk that you haven’t pre-registered.

Place: University of Alberta Faculty Club, Papaschase Room, 11435 Saskatchewan Drive

Time: 11:30 am Registration
  12:00 pm Lunch
  12:30 pm Guest Speaker
  1:30 pm Adjournment

Cost: Members: $20.00
  Non-Members: $30.00
  Students: $10.00 (valid student card required)

Payment will be taken at the door, by cash or cheque only.

Regards,

Dan Willems, P.Eng.
NASTT-NW Chapter
Edmonton Section Chair

NASTT Colleagues and Friends,

Please join us for the fourth technical lunch of the 2008-09 season on Thursday February 19.

This month’s speaker will be Mr. Phil Sande, Director of Property Acquisitions and Expropriations with the City of Edmonton in the Asset Management and Public Works Department. He graduated from the University of Alberta with a BA in Economics and is an Accredited member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada.  Phil appraised all types of property with a private firm in Edmonton for seven years prior to joining the City of Edmonton as an appraiser in 1986.  Phil became the City’s Chief Appraiser in 1989 and subsequently the head of the Acquisitions unit in 1997.  Phil’s area is responsible for the acquisition of all types of real estate interests needed by the City which include, fee simple estates, leasehold interests, easements, right of ways, etc. on residential, commercial and industrial lands.  Phil is responsible for files that have appeared before the Subdivision and Development Appeal Board, Land Compensation Board, and the Court of Appeal.

Phil will be speaking to us about strata easements.

Pre-registration for this event is closed. We reserve some additional seats for walkins, just notify the registration desk that you haven’t pre-registered.

Place: University of Alberta Faculty Club, Papaschase Room, 11435 Saskatchewan Drive

Time: 11:30 am Registration
  12:00 pm Lunch
  12:30 pm Guest Speaker
  1:30 pm Adjournment

Cost: Members: $20.00
  Non-Members: $30.00
  Students: $10.00 (valid student card required)

Payment will be taken at the door, by cash or cheque only.

Regards,

Dan Willems, P.Eng.
NASTT-NW Chapter
Edmonton Section Chair

NASTT Colleagues and Friends,

Please join us for the third technical lunch of the 2008-09 season on Thursday January 22.

This month’s speaker will be Dan Willems, P.Eng..

Dan Willems is an environmental engineer with Stantec Consulting Ltd. in Edmonton and is currently Chair of the Edmonton Section of the Chapter. He has been working in the environmental infrastructure industry across the prairies for the past 7 years, specializing in municipal water and sewer infrastructure. Dan has a B.Sc. degree in civil engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and is a registered Professional Engineer with APEGGA.

Dan will be presenting an overview of the North American Society for Trenchless Technology, the history of the Northwest Chapter, and will discuss the current issues and activities of the Chapter and the Edmonton Section. This presentation will be of specific interest to local NASTT members. Any members who are considering becoming more involved with the Chapter are strongly encouraged to attend.

Pre-registration for this event is closed. We reserve some additional seats for walkins, just notify the registration desk that you haven’t pre-registered.

Place:   University of Alberta Faculty Club, Papaschase Room, 11435 Saskatchewan Drive

Time:    11:30 am Registration
              12:00 pm Lunch
              12:30 pm Guest Speaker
              1:30 pm   Adjournment

Cost:    Members:           $20.00
            Non-Members:   $30.00
            Students:             $10.00 (valid student card required)

Payment will be taken at the door, by cash or cheque only.

Regards,

Dan Willems, P.Eng.
NASTT-NW Chapter
Edmonton Section Chair

NASTT Colleagues and Friends,

Please join us for the second technical lunch of the 2008-09 season on Wednesday October 22.

This month’s speaker will be Mr. Manley Osbak of The Crossing Company. Mr. Osbak entered the horizontal directional drilling industry in 1996 after 12 years in the heavy construction and manufacturing industry. He worked throughout North America as a directional driller for an international wire line and HDD directional services company. In 1997 he joined The Crossing Company as a directional driller, forming part of the company’s internal directional team. Since then, he has spearheaded the development of the services provided by The Crossing Company’s Technical Services Group.

Mr. Osbak’s presentation will review the basic elements of HDD design inluding entry and exit angles, radius of curved segments and depth of cover. The presentation will briefly consider installation stresses and consider how design impacts installation stress..

Pre-registration for this event is closed. We reserve some additional seats for walkins, just notify the registration desk that you haven’t pre-registered.

Place:   University of Alberta Faculty Club, Papaschase Room, 11435 Saskatchewan Drive

Time:    11:30 am Registration
              12:00 pm Lunch
              12:30 pm Guest Speaker
              1:30 pm   Adjournment

Cost:    Members:           $20.00
            Non-Members:   $30.00
            Students:             $10.00 (valid student card required)

Payment will be taken at the door, by cash or cheque only.

Regards,

Dan Willems, P.Eng.
NASTT-NW Chapter
Edmonton Section Chair