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First Pipeline Design, Installation
Workshop
More than 40 people attended CUIRE's first Pipeline Design and Installation Workshop, June 21 through June 23, at the University of Texas-Arlington. Participants received a copy of all the presentations on a USB
drive and a certificate of completion.
Dr. Antonio Miglio, a hydraulic and pipeline consultant engineer from
Castrovillari, Italy; and Dr. Mo Najafi, CUIRE director, presented the following topics:

Pipeline planning
* Pipeline planning and design
* Soil classification, properties and compaction
* Soil pressure distribution on rigid and flexible buried pipes
* External loads on buried rigid and flexible buried pipes

Pipeline Design
* Structural design rigid and flexible buried pipes
* Trenchless technology new installations
* Trenchless technology rehabilitation/renewal/replacement

Pipeline Construction
* Pipeline foundation, bedding, embedment and backfill
* Lightweight materials for pipe embedment and backfill
* Pipe materials
* Acceptance and inspection
On June 24, Harvey Svetlik, water and energy staff engineer at Georg
Fischer Central Plastics-Dallas, presented Design And Construction
With HDPE Pipe. The next day, Philippe Fischer and Laurent Hesters
from Hobas Pipe, Canada and France, respectively, presented Sliplining
Design for Non-Circular Pipes. This workshop taught principles of pipeline design and installation from the planning stages to the final stage
of construction.
For more information on the 2018 PDI Workshop, email cuire@uta.
edu, or call (817) 272-9177.

CUIRE Advisory Board
Abu Abraham, P.E.
Technical Manager
Instituform

Chad Kopecki, P.E.
Assistant Director
City of Dallas

Sam Arnaout, P.E.
Sr. Vice President of Engineering
Forterra Pressure Pipe

David Marshall, P.E.
Director of Engineers and
Operations Support
Tarrant Regional Water District

Robert A. Carpenter
Editor-in-Chief
Underground Construction
Walter Chiang, P.E.
Founder & Director
CP&Y Inc.
George H. Davis, R.G.
Geotechnical Liaison
Missouri Department of
Transportation
Bruce Hollands
Executive Director
Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association
Julia J. Hunt, P.E.
Assistant Regional Manager/
Operations
Trinity River Authority of Texas
Bruce Jameson
Regional manager
Ace Pipe Cleaning, Inc.
Therese R. Kline, P.E.
Flexible Pipe Specialist
Michigan Department of
Transportation

August 2017 Underground Construction

Lynn Osborn, P.E.
Technical Advisor, NASSCO
LEO Consulting
Anna Pridmore, Ph.D., P.E.
Vice President, Pipeline
Solutions
Structural Technologies
Camille George Rubeiz, P.E.
Director of Engineering
Plastic Pipe Institute
Jim Rush
Editor
Benjamin Media Inc.
Larry Slavin, Ph.D.
Principal
Outside Plant Consulting
Services, Inc.
Harvey Svetlik
Staff Engineer - Water & Energy
Georg Fischer Central Plastics,
LLC
GF Piping Systems
Richard Williammee Jr., P.E.
District Materials Engineer,
Fort Worth District
Texas Department of
Transportation

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