HDR's Water Business Group Professionals Scheduled For Presentations At ASCE Pipelines Conference

HDR will have seven professionals from its Water Business Group participating as presenters and/or facilitators at the 2010 American Society of Civil Engineer's Pipelines Conference, one of the top conferences serving the pipeline engineering profession.

This year's event is scheduled for Aug. 28-Sept. 1 at the Keystone Resort and Conference Center in Keystone (Dillon), Colo. Workshops, technical papers and panel discussions will be organized to cover special topics and recent regulatory initiatives in the water, wastewater, oil and gas industries.

Technical sessions for the more than 600 attendees are Infrastructure Assessment/Monitoring, Construction, Design, Planning and New/Emerging Technologies.

John Plattsmier, HDR's Pump Stations and Pipelines director, is serving as local co-chairman for entertainment on the conference steering committee. He's also presenting papers in two different sessions.

The following is a list of scheduled HDR presenters by date and time:

Sunday, Aug. 29
"Thrust Restraint Design of Buried Pipelines Workshop" - 8 a.m. - noon
Presenter: Sri Rajah, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, Bellevue, Wash.

Constructability Roundtable - 8 a.m. – noon
Presenter: John Plattsmier, P.E., M.ASCE, Denver

Monday, Aug. 30
New and Emerging Technology, 10:30 a.m.
"GIS Asset Management of New Capital Projects"
Presenter: Brian Foredyce, Denver

Design, 10:30 a.m.
"Understanding Pipe Standard Specifications and Their Applications"
Presenter: Xiangquan Li, Folsom, Calif.

Planning, 11 a.m.
"Design and Construction of the Lake Fork Pipeline"
Presenter: Albert Petrasek, Dallas

Infrastructure Assessment/Monitoring, 2 p.m.
"Condition Assessment of 108 Miles of Water Transmission Laterals"
Presenter: Alison Ratliff, Las Vegas

Design, 3:30 p.m.
"Design and Specification of Bolted Flange Joints in Water/Wastewater Practice"
Presenter: Plattsmier

Tuesday, Aug. 31
Construction, 9 a.m.
"Managing Challenges Building the Aurora Prairie Waters Project"
Presenter: Mark Smith, Denver

Wednesday, Sept. 1
Design, 8 a.m.
"Contribution of Frictional Resistance to Restrain Unbalanced Thrust in Buried Pipelines"
Presenter: Rajah

Next year's conference will be July 23-27 in Seattle.

SOURCE: HDR