NASTT Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) and Pipe Bursting Good Practices Guidelines

The objective of the HDD course is to provide contractors, engineers and owners with a set of guidelines to assist them in utility installations using horizontal directional drilling. The course provides an in-depth overview of HDD and covers these five topics:

• HDD operation and application;
  
• HDD equipment and materials including rigs, drill pipe, bits, reamers, and down hole tools; drilling fluid recycling and recovery systems, drilling fluids and additives, and tracking equipment
  
• Planning including surface and geological investigations, utility surveys, bore planning, and regulations and permitting
  
• Jobsite safety including planning and preparation, traffic control, and safety equipment, practices, and response
  
• Risk reduction, trouble shooting and mitigation.

Second day: Pipe Bursting Good Practices

The objective of the Pipe Bursting course is to provide an in-depth overview of pipe bursting.  The in-depth session covers four topic areas:

• Types, methods, and application of pipe bursting
  
• Planning and preliminary design of a pipe bursting job
  
• Design and construction considerations
  
• Trouble shooting and problem solving.

Course instructors are Dr. Samuel T. Ariaratnam and Dr. David Bennett.

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