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Pre-Conference Workshops
1. Coastal Engineering Manual: A Highlight of Changes from the Shore Protection Manual
CANCELLED!!!
Coordinator: Stanley White
ASCE's Coastal Engineering Practice Committee is sponsoring a oneday
short course on the new Coastal Engineering Manual (CEM) to
introduce practicing engineers to some of the changes that are being
incorporated. This program will examine new wave forecasting
techniques and other methodology related to defining wave climate,
discuss sediment management at navigation projects, overview
navigation projects and harbor hydrodynamics, and present new
guidance for design of coastal structures.
The new CEM is nearing completion and will be a modern technical document incorporating all the tools and procedures used to plan, design, construct, and maintain coastal projects. Updated from the Shore Protection Manual (SPM), the CEM will include basic principles of coastal processes, methods for computing coastal planning and design parameter, and guidance on how to formulate and conduct studies in support of coastal flooding, shore protection, and navigation projects. New sections include navigation and harbor design, dredging and disposal, structure repair and rehabilitation, wetland and low-energy shore protection, risk analysis, field instrumentation, numerical simulation, the engineering process, and other topics.
Registration fee: Workshop CANCELLED!!!. Included in your registration fee are the morning and afternoon refreshment breaks and a boxed lunch.
2. GIS for Ports
May 23, 8:00 am - 12:00 Noon
Coordinator: Patrick Moore
This course will teach you how to put GIS to work in your facility to build an integrated, holistic, and intuitive tool to more efficiently manage your entire operating environment, including facilities management, asset management, and security. GIS does not provide a mechanism to collect information but rather an environment to seamlessly integrate disparate data such as card readers/sensors, cameras, acoustics, and any relevant databases. Thus, it creates an environment to allow decision-makers and planners to visually compare content and details as they relate to one another spatially, such as physical location and time or components that create a conflict with broader relational data.
The course is intended for technical and managerial audiences and will consist of PowerPoint presentations, workstation applications, and Internet GIS applications. There will be printed course materials accompanying the presentation available for all course participants.
The course will consist of eight sections:
- What is GIS and Visualization?
- Benefits Derived from a GIS
- Thinking Spatially
- Data!!
- Planning and Implementing a GIS
- GIS Integration with Other Port Enterprise Systems
- GIS Applications in Security and Operations
- Web GIS Applications and Deployments
- Wrap-up
3. Grouting Technologies and Their Applications for Aging Ports InfrastructuresMay 23, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Coordinator: Karin Hurley
The technical session will outline grouting and soil stabilization techniques available for the rehabilitation and improvement of existing, aging ports facilities, piers and bulkheads. The session will examine a variety of structural issues plaguing aging ports facilities, such failing and deteriorating sheet pile and concrete bulkheads; perforated sheet piling and soil subsidence. Moreover, specific grouting techniques - including installation methods and practical applications - will be discussed as means of improving and rehabilitating ports facilities affected by age and deterioration. Case histories of rehabilitating aging bulkhead infrastructures and the grouting methodologies employed, will be discussed at length.
Presenters are:
Thomas M. Hurley, District Manager, Layne GeoConstruction (specialty geotechnical contractor)
Raymond Sandiford, Chief Geotechnical Engineer, Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (invited)
Representative, United States Department of the Navy (invited)
*speakers will receive no monetary compensation for their participation.
Registration fee: $100, member; $125, non-member. Included in your registration fee is an afternoon refreshment break.
4. Structural Plastic Lumber/Shapes and Polymeric Piles
May 23, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Coordinator: Terry Browne
This introductory course will provide facility owners and designers with the latest information on the design principles, standards/specifications, material characteristics, advantages, and limitations of a variety of polymer composites utilized in the rehabilitation and construction of waterfront facilities. Case studies and classroom exercises will be provided to familiarize attendees with requirements during the planning, design, and construction phases.
Registration fee: $100, member; $125, non-member. Included in your registration fee is an afternoon refreshment break.
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