NASTT Colleagues and Friends,

Please join us for the second technical lunch of the 2010-11 season on Thursday October 21.

This month’s speaker will be <More information to come>

XXXXXXXXX will be speaking to us about <More information to come>

To register, please complete the following form:
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 2010-11 season on Thursday September 23.

This month’s speaker will be <More information to come>

XXXXXXXXX will be speaking to us about <More information to come>

To register, please complete the following form:

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 and final technical lunch of the 2009-10 season on Thursday April 22.

Fort McMurray is located just south of the major oil sands development that has been ongoing in recent years, and as a result, has been experiencing phenomenal growth.  To service this growth, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB) has been investing in major infrastructure upgrades, one of which involves a twin forcemain crossing of the Athabasca River.  The crossing will include two 900 mm HDPE pipes installed by HDD methods, with each drill being over 1,200 m in length.

This presentation provides an overview of the complexities of the project, which included significant environmental, geotechnical, land acquisition and public stakeholder considerations.  There were also several other contractors working in the area, including a major bridge construction project, that presented a number of logistic complications that had to be addressed by the design and the contractor’s work plan.  The project team’s approach to overcome these issues, that included a risk sharing plan between the owner and the contractor that identified responsibilities prior to construction start up, will also be discussed.

This month’s speaker will be Todd Simenson, P.Eng., who is a Practice Leader and Senior Project Manager for Stantec’s Environmental Infrastructure group in Red Deer. Todd has a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and, over his 24 year career, has been involved in various civil engineering projects including transmission and distribution systems, lift stations, forcemains, lagoons, reservoirs, pump stations, stormwater management, subdivision development, highways and roadways, and sewage disposal systems.

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 fifth technical lunch of the 2009-10 season on Thursday March 25.

This month’s speaker will be Mark Brand, P.Eng. of Insituform Technologies Limited (ITL). Mark is the Regional Manager for Western Canadian Operations. He began his career with ITL as a Technical Sales Engineer in January of 1995.  He then changed gears and took on a more Operational Role as Project Executive which later progressed into his position today. Mark has given numerous design workshops for clients and consultants alike and has been published in numerous trade publications and conference proceedings. Mark now oversees the largest CIPP operation in Canada today.

Mr. Brand will be speaking to us about a recent CIPP project in Metro Vancouver which involved lining 325 m of 1,725 mm diameter pipe.

Sewage pipe remediation is not an unusual municipal project, but Metro Vancouver (formerly the Greater Vancouver Regional District) was faced with a significant problem with one of its main sewage trunks.  Buried deep underground, the Highbury Interceptor combined sewer system conveys Vancouver’s sewage and storm water to a point on the north bank of the Fraser River’s north arm. From there, it is forced beneath the river through the Highbury Siphon to the Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Metro Vancouver considered a number of solutions, but in the end, cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) lining was chosen as the optimum technical and logistical solution.  This presentation will touch on the history of the original Interceptor’s construction, subsequent maintenance problems with the siphon in the 1990’s, and then discuss some of the more difficult logistical challenges of installing a 1725 mm diameter CIPP liner underneath the Fraser River.

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 fourth technical presentation event of the 2009-10 season on Thursday February 18. This dinner event is a joint presentation with the CSCE and TAC.

This month’s speaker will be Brad Smid from the City of Edmonton. Mr. Smid is a graduate in Civil Engineering from the University of Alberta. Brad began his engineering career in the private sector and was involved in heavy civil construction and railroad engineering, prior to joining the Transportation Department of the City of Edmonton in 2002. Brad is a Project Manager in the LRT Design and Construction Branch of the City’s Capital Construction Department, where he has been involved in the planning, design, and construction of Edmonton’s South LRT and North LRT extensions since 2005. In addition to his work responsibilities, Brad is the Western Region Vice President of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) and serves on the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologist, and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA) Edmonton Branch Committee.

Brad will be speaking us about the design and construction of the North LRT project. The North LRT extension from downtown to the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) is part of Edmonton’s plan to develop a comprehensive transit system where more people use transit as a preferred mode. This 3.1 km LRT extension will branch off the existing LRT line at Churchill Station, travel through a 700 meter underground tunnel, and then run on surface from MacEwan University to NAIT. This LRT extension will link major post-secondary and health care centres to the LRT system, and form the first section of a future extension to northwest Edmonton and St. Albert.

This presentation will discuss the unique aspects of extending Edmonton’s LRT through a dense urban environment, and how “lessons learned” from the South LRT extension are being applied in the project management and detailed design of the North LRT.

Please pre-register your attendance for this event before February 16 through the CSCE by clicking here.

Place: University of Alberta Faculty Club, 11435 Saskatchewan Drive

Time: 5:30 pm Cocktails & Registration
  6:30 pm Dinner
  7:30 pm Presentation
  8:30 pm Adjournment

Cost: Members: $20.00
  Non-Members: $30.00
Drop-In Fee: $5.00 (for those who haven’t pre-registered through CSCE by February 16, 2010).

Regards,

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

NASTT Colleagues and Friends,

Please join us for the third technical lunch of the 2009-10 season on Thursday January 21.

This month’s speaker will be Brian Bonner, who is the Vice President and General Manager of SpiderPlow Services Inc.  SpiderPlow Services Inc. is a construction company which provides highly specialized pipe, cable and fibre optic installation services throughout Canada and the United States. Brian has been with the company for 4 years, since it was founded in 2005, and is responsible for business development. 

The SpiderPlow is a cost effective, expedient and environmentally friendly advanced system for installing flexible pipelines, fibre optic cable or power cable.  The technology “plows” the pipe or cable into the ground by cutting a narrow channel and laying the pipe or cable underground in one continuous process (i.e. less trench).  The system consists of two separate machines which work together. These machines are the ‘SpiderPlow’ which rips open the channel and lays the product into channel, and the ‘Winch Crawler’ which is designed solely to winch the ‘SpiderPlow’ forward. This presentation will provide an overview of SpiderPlow Services Inc., the company, as well as the ‘SpiderPlow’ system as a construction methodology.

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