ASCE Pipelines 2024 Conference

Utility Infrastructure: Moving Onward to a Sustainable Future

We are excited to be sponsors, presenters, and moderators at the Utility Engineering & Surveying Institute Pipelines 2024 Conference! We hope you will join us on July 27 - 31 as we share our insights on pipelines and trenchless technologies.

Our Pipelines 2024 Conference Presentations

Monday, July 29

10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. | Condition Assessment A1: Large Diameter Assessments 

• Moderator: Christopher Haeckler

10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. | Condition Assessment B1: Lessons Learned – Large Utility Assessment 

• Development of Framework and Business Processes for GLWA’s Linear System Integrity Program  
• Presenter: Susan Donnally

10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.  | Construction and Rehabilitation: D1 Trenchless Considerations

• Moderator: Jerry Snead  

10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. | Multidiscipline/Oil & Gas: F1 Oil and Gas – Construction Issues 

• Moderator: Scott Christensen

1:30–3 p.m. | Multidiscipline/Oil & Gas: F2 Oil and Gas – Hydraulics and Risk Management 

• Moderator: Collin Hayes

4–5:30 p.m. | Condition Assessment: A3 PCCP Assessment  

• Moderator: Mitch Dabling

4–5 p.m. | Condition Assessment: A3 PCCP Assessment 

• Trust the Process: Great Lake Water Authority’s Progressive Management Approach to Distressed Prestressed Concrete Cylinder Pipe  
• Presenters: Mike Higgins, Glenn Edgemon, Jeff Giddings  

4–5:30 p.m. | Planning and Design: I3 Municipal Utility Guidance 

• The Pipeline Less Traveled By; Resolving Design Challenges Along a Trail Through Critical Wetland Areas
• Presenters: Peter Brask, Mike Gossett  

Tuesday, July 30  

9-10:30 a.m. | Condition Assessment: B4 Monitoring, Analysis, and Modeling  

• Moderator: Jaime Ordonez  

2–3:30 p.m. | Condition Assessment: A5 Technology in Pipe Assessment 

• Applied Research Turns Wire Breaks into Innovation Opportunity for GLWA
• Presenter: Mike Higgins

2–3:30 p.m. | Construction and Rehabilitation: C5 Trenchless Technologies 

• Use of Trenchless Technology for Stormwater Pipe Rehabilitation  
• Presenters: Jerry Snead

2–3:30 p.m. | Multidiscipline/Oil & Gas: F5 Oil and Gas and Wastewater Corrosion

• Segmental Steel Sliplining for Water Transmission Renewal
• Presenters: Keith Bushdiecker, Kevin Brian  

4:30–5:30 p.m. | Planning and Design: G6 Materials Considerations 

• Avoiding Faults: AC Current Mitigation on a Large Diameter Steel Pipeline – Case Study  
• Presenters: Scott Christensen, Brien Clark  

Wednesday, July 31  

8-9:30 a.m. | Multidiscipline/Oil & Gas: F7 Pipe Failures

• Statistical Analysis and Insight from the Water Research Foundation PCCP Failure Database  
• Presenter: Mike Higgins  

10-11:30 a.m. | Planning and Design: H8 Program Management 

• Thinking Outside the Reservoir: How TRWD is Using Constructed Wetlands to Defer Building the Next Reservoir
• Presenter: Christopher Haeckler  

10–11:30 a.m. | Planning and Design: G8 Innovate and Renovate

• Moderator: Steve Friedman