2010 Northwest Trenchless Conference ready to roll

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Publishing Date: 07 Sep 2010 12:21pm GMT
Author: Trenchless World

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Trenchless industry professionals are sure to find excellent learning and networking opportunities on offer at the 2010 Northwest Trenchless Conference, due to take place in Edmonton, Canada, on November 17 2010. The North American Society for Trenchless Technology’s (NASTT) Northwest Chapter and the Tunnelling Association of Canada are organising the event.
Held at the Fantasyland Hotel, the 14th annual occurrence of this event will comprise a conference, technical presentations and tradeshow. It will be followed on November 18 by a short course based around NASTT’s ‘HDD Good Practices Guidelines’.
A variety of topics will be covered by the conference, including tunnelling, microtunnelling, HDD, and lining. Presentations will be as follows:

Confederation Sewer Trunk Upgrade, by Chris Sivesind, The Robbins Company

Clean Water Project / East Side CSO, Gerhard Lang, Herrenknecht.

Upper Northwest Interceptor Sections 3 & 4, Craig Vandaelle, Michels.

Review of Guidance Systems used in HDD, Manley Osbak of The Crossing Company

HDD Pipeline Design and QA/QC using BoreAid Software, Alireza Bayat, University of Alberta.

Contentious Issues on Contract Laws, Claudia Pooli, City of Edmonton

15 Street Sanitary Siphon Upgrade, Duane Strayer, Associated Engineering

Southwest Rapid Transit Corridor Stage 1: Land Drainage Construction and Associated Works, Shane Cooper, Dillon Consulting

Pipeline Rehabilitation, DFI/RLS

NASTT-BC Carbon Calculator, David O’Sullivan of PW Trenchless Construction

Service Lateral Lining, IVIS/LMK

Further information from www.nastt-nw.com