Technical Program

Moderator
Rick Nelson, P.E., Black & Veatch Corporation

Use of Pipeline for Site Selection of Sediment Deposits by GIS
Tiao J. Chang, Civil Engineering Department, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

Vito A. Cimino

Utilizing GIS in Developing Realistic Demand Distributions to Support Modeling in Water Supply Master Planning
Art K. Umble, City of Elkhart Public Works and Utilities, Elkhart, Indiana

Melissa Moran

Tarlochan Bhullar

Michael C. Machlan

Building a Pipeline GIS for Integrity Management, HCA Determination, and Incident Planning
Brent A. Jones, James W. Sewall Company, Old Town, Maine

Role of GIS in Pipeline Industry
Yelakanti P. Vijaykumar, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

Mohammad Najafi

Ahmad Habibian

Moderator
Randy Robertson, P.Eng., Cyntech Corporation

Prestressed Concrete Cylinder Pipeline Evaluation, A Toolbox Approach
Richard A. Lewis, President, Openaka Corporation, Inc., Denville, New Jersey

Matt Wheatley

Innovative Approach to make a Condition Assessment using an Hydraulic Model
Eric Lalonde, Vice President R&D, Harfan Technologies, Quebec, Canada

B. Prince

Hydrostatic Pressure Testing of Prestressed Concrete Cylinder Pipe with Broken Wires
Mehdi S. Zarghamee, Principal, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts

Pressure - Leakage Relation in Urban Water Distribution Systems
Reza Ardakanian, Sharif University of Technology

Ali Akbar Ghazali

Moderator
George Ruchti, American Spiral Weld Company

Cathodic Protection for the Surface Water Transmission Program
Rafael Ortega, Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc.

Gregory Lentz

Christine Kirby

Arthur Morris

Break Reduction/ Life Extension Program for Cast and Ductile Iron Water Mains
George A. Gehring, Jr., Executive Vice President, Corrpro Companies, Inc., West Chester, Pennsylvania

Dale Lindemuth

Walter T. Young

Cathodic Protection Applications for Water System Piping
James T. Lary, Corrpro Companies, Inc., Medina, Ohio

Moderator
Jim Scott, Solution Resource

Pipeline System Renewal Technologies
B. Jay Schrock, JSC International Engineering

Centrifuge Modelling of Soil Load Transfer to Flexible Sewer Liners
John Gumbel, Technical Director, Insituform Technologies, Winchester, United Kingdom

Aleksandar Spasojevic

Robert Mair

Fully Deteriorated Design in Rigid Pipe Rehabilitation with Flexible Liners
George McAlpine, President & CEO, Danby of North America, Inc., Cary, North Carolina

Moderator
Dr. Henry Liu, P.E., Freight Pipeline Company

Protecting from Third Party Damage
Will Worthington, Vice President, Pressure Pipe Inspection Company, Scottsdale, Arizona

Brian Mergelas

Economic Impact Analysis to Optimize Investments in Damage Prevention for Pipeline Construction
Leonhard E. Bernold, Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

High Resolution Defect Detection for Thermoplastic Butt-Welds in Operating Pipelines by Ultrasonic TOFD
Barry Messer, Group Leader - Materials and Welding Engineering, Fluor Canada Ltd.

Matthew Yarmuch

Peter den Boer

Technology for the Tele-Robotic Laying of Large and Small Pipes
Leonard E. Bernold, Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

Bin Li