HDD Good Practices Guidelines Course scheduled for Seattle
Jul 05, 2007
The Northwest Chapter of the North American Society for Trenchless Technology will hold a two- day Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) Good Practices Guidelines Course, July 17-18, at the Swedish Cultural Center in Seattle.
The Horizontal Directional Drilling Good Practices Guidelines training is a two-day course that covers these topics:
- HDD operation and applications
- Machine performance, capabilities and application guidelines
- Drill pipe and tooling
- Bore tracking equipment, planning, mapping and emerging technologies
- Drilling fluid delivery, containment and recovery systems
- Drilling fluids
- Jobsite safety, planning and preparation, traffic control, safety equipment, practices and response
- Planning, surface and geological investigations, utility surveys, bore planning, regulations and permitting
- Risk reduction, trouble shooting and mitigation
Who should attend? All utility and consulting engineers, superintendents, contractors, inspectors and other technical individuals working with water, sewer, gas, electrical and cable systems.
Course instructors: The HDD course will be presented by the two principal authors of the HDD Good Practices manual; David Bennett, Ph.D., P.E., of Bennett Trenchless Engineers in Sacramento, California and Dr. Samuel Ariaratnam of Arizona State University. Dr. Bennett was Trenchless Technology magazine's 2005 Person of the Year and has over 25 years of engineering experience. Dr. Ariaratnam has a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign with specializations in Construction Engineering and Management. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Del E. Webb School of Construction at Arizona State University. They will be joined by special guest speaker, Eileen Robinson with DCI, who will be presenting the section on locating and tracking equipment.
For more information, contact Tina Davenport at +1 206-633-0213 or e-mail: tina.davenport@bennett-staheli.com.
Download the course brochure and registration form (PDF format) here.
More News and Articles
Apr 17, 2024
News
Immersive media provides wastewater experience in Denmark
An immersive media experience (IMX) may not be what most people want when they think about industrial wastewater, but that is exactly what visitors can expect when they visit a new installation in the city of Kalundborg, Denmark.
Apr 15, 2024
News
Spotlight on gender diversity at Pipe Core
Since founding in 2008, Pipe Core’s team has grown across all areas of the business and is now in a position where there are more females than males across the organisation. Research published in Harvard Business Review found that “countries …
Apr 12, 2024
News
New Wave of Startups Scale Innovation to Solve Global Water Challenges
Innovators from Around the World Join Xylem’s 2024 Accelerator Program to Deploy Breakthrough Innovations for Utilities and Industrial Users of Water
Apr 08, 2024
News
Integrated sustainable electricity and clean drinking water systems
Altitude Water and New Use Energy Solutions have partnered to create integrated, mobile solar-plus-water generation systems that produce sustainable electricity and clean drinking water anytime, anywhere.
Apr 05, 2024
News
How to Evaluate Hydraulic Fracture Risk in HDD Design
The design of horizontal directional drill (HDD) installations often requires an evaluation of the potential for hydraulic fracture of the soil layers through which an HDD passes. Evaluating this risk during the design process is an important planning tool to …
Apr 02, 2024
News
Historic Project Linking Rome and Vatican City Uses Advanced Technology and Local Knowledge to Keep Water Flowing
Relocation of Major Sewer Infrastructure Enables Construction of Pedestrian Link for 35 Million Visitors to the 2025 Jubilee
Mar 27, 2024
News
USU Study Looks at Water Main Break Rates in the U.S. and Canada
Report Highlights Correlation Between Material and Diameter
Mar 26, 2024
News
Update BE-21: New Material in Course and Modules on Trenchless Pipe Installation
Online training on the topic of pipeline installation in civil engineering: Trenchless technology for underground drainage construction can be a resource-efficient, environmentally friendly, time-saving, and cost-effective alternative to open cut methods. The UNITRACC e-learning course "Utility Tunnelling" has been enhanced …
Mar 25, 2024
Article
Bacteria as a new weapon in wastewater treatment
In early November, San Diego based startup Aquacycl officially opened its first European office and test center at the Water Campus in Leeuwarden. The Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA) and the Investment and Development Agency for the Northern Netherlands (NOM) …
Mar 22, 2024
News
A superior HDD offering
Building on its relationships with leading horizontal directional drilling companies, TRACTO Australia has delivered three new rigs to operator Superior HDD.
Mar 20, 2024
News
New portable water filtration technology could improve access to clean drinking water worldwide
The University of Texas at Austin has developed an injectable water filtration system with the aim to aid the over two billion people worldwide who are without clean drinking water.
Mar 18, 2024
News
Global Student Innovation Challenge Calls on Next-Generation Leaders to Tackle Water Security
High School and University Students Worldwide Invited to Expand Water Access and Community Resilience
Contact
North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT)