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GUEST SPEAKER

Kevin Bainbridge

Senior Project Manager, Asset Management
Water/Wastewater & Sustainable Infrastructure
City of Hamilton

TOPIC

This presentation will focus on the business case for the use of trenchless technologies in the management of buried infrastructure. It will highlight the relationship between trenchless technologies and optimized decision making through asset management best practices. Information presented will assist municipal infrastructure managers in building a strong argument for the use of trenchless technologies in their communities.

Click here for details and to register!

We welcome new member:

SPINIELLO Canada (Toronto, Ontario)

Breakfast Seminar:

Greenhouse Gas Emissions during Municipal Pipeline Construction

What: This breakfast seminar discusses green house emissions resulting from municipal pipeline construction activites and how to estimate greenhouse gas emissions for open cut and trenchless pipeline construction. It will use case studies to show that the use of trenchless construction methods can result in 90 to 100 percent less greenhouse gas emissions than open trench construction methods.

When: October 15, 2009

Where:"Laurel Room", South Campus Hall (SCH), University of Waterloo

Who should attend:municipal representatives, utility owners, consulting engineers, superintendents, contractors, inspectors, and anybody involved in the design and inspection of trenchless projects.

Click here for details and for registration! Cost includes full breakfast!

Click here for map and directions.

Once again, CATT has partnered with Benjamin Media to bring you 2010 Trenchless Road Show. We invite you to be part of this 2-day event which will take place June 9 - 10, 2010 at the Mississauga Grand Banquet & Convention Centre, Mississauga, Ontario. It will feature exhibits and presentations covering topics such as:

Buried infrastructure asset management, financing and life cycle costing
Microtunneling/tunneling
New construction (pipe ramming, auger boring)
Horizontal directional drilling
Watermain renovation
Pipe renovation
Utility tunneling
Water and sewer rates for sustainable buried infrastructure
Infrastructure planning for the next decade
Condition assessment
Subsurface utility engineering and mapping
Trenchless pipeline construction pipe ramming/auger boring
Pipeline, manhole, lateral repair, and rehabilitation
Geothermal applications
Green effects
Case studies
New technologies and products
Research

For more details and to submit an abstract, click here!!!

Underground Utility Location workshop

What: This one day workshop covers a detailed review of Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) and an overview of current technologies and practices. It will also incorporate field demos of different locating technologies and equipments. Case studies will be presented throughout the workshop.

When: September 23, 2009

Where:" Fish Bowl", Davis Centre, University of Waterloo

Who should attend:municipal representatives, utility owners, consulting engineers, superintendents, contractors, inspectors, and anybody involved in the design and inspection of trenchless projects.

Attendees of this workshop will be granted 0.7 EIC recognized CEUs.

Click here for details and for registration!

We welcome new members:

Empipe Solutions Ltd (Port Perry Ontario)

John Delost Construction Ltd (Schumacher Ontario)

Draft of OPSS 463 Amendments is ready for industry review

The Technical Committee, chaired by John Spencer (R. V. Anderson Limited), has completed the review of the current OPSS 463 and has produced a draft of amendments designed to update this document to suit current industry needs.

The draft is ready for your review and input. Click here to download a copy of the document and the proposed amendments. Please contact John Spencer if you have any comments.

This document will be posted and available for review for a period of 30 days. After that time, the completed draft will be sent to OPSS Standards Branch for their consideration.

CATT Technical Committee to review OPSS 409

The Technical Committee, chaired by John Spencer (R. V. Anderson Limited), will undertake the review of the CCTV Spec as soon as a committee is put together.

Volunteers interested in working on OPSS 409 - Construction Specification for Closed Circuit Television Inspection of Pipelines are requested to contact John Spencer or Alice Seviora.

NAAPI Closure

On September 2, 2008, the North American Association of Pipeline Inspectors (NAAPI) announced that it was ceasing operations and would no longer provide CCTV inspector training and certification.

On December 2, CATT and some interested parties held an open information session to discuss consequences and options available to Canadian municipalities.

A sub-committee has been formed and named SPIMA (Sewer Pipe Industry Management Association). It held its second information session on Friday January 30.

For more information on the sub-committee and to contact one of its members, click here.

Update: Pipe Materials and Engineering Properties

The second offering of this course has been cancelled. For more information, please contact Mark Knight.

CATT would like to extend its most sincere thanks to all of the volunteers of 2007/2008. Without the continued support of all of these volunteers CATT would not be the organization it is today! To see the list of all the 2007/2008 volunteers click here.

Thank you so much for the spectacular year!

CATT is a volunteer-based organization and our committees are always
actively seeking new members. The time requirement is not great, and we have
conference call facilities. The objective is to attract members from across
the entire industry, including municipalities, consultants, contractors, and
suppliers. Please consider volunteering and sharing your expertise while
promoting the trenchless industry.

If you wish to get involved with any of the committees in the 2008/2009 year, click here!

The CATT AMG took place October 30, 2008 at the Mississauga Grand. The event was a great success with an excellent presentation and spectacular food. CATT is proud to present its 2008/2009 Board of Directors here.

We are looking forward to a great year!

Interested in expanding and promoting your company? Where else then at a CATT workshop!

By sponsoring a CATT workshop you will:
• have your company promoted on all event advertizing material and program material
• have your company acknowledged as an event sponsor and industry leader
• have the ability to place company material in the attendee handout material and
• receive an event attendee list

Click here to sponsor the next CATT Event!!

NEW Members!

We welcome new members:

City of Toronto, City of Barrie, City of Guelph, ARIES Industries

Upcoming Workshops and Events

Here is a list of upcoming events!

Horizontal Directional Drilling Construction, Inspection, and QA/QC (joint with OGRA), January 20, 2009 (details)

TT 101 (joint with OGRA), February 12, 2009 (details)

Watermain, TBD

Locating, TBD

Maximizing Green Effects with Trenchless Technologies, TBA

Asset Management 101/Sustainable Design, TBA.
This is a 2 day workshop that will give an introduction to TT and to designing for trenchless technologies (more details coming)

HDD Subcommittee Update

The HDD subcommittee has finished revision of OPSS 450 and has started compiling detailed suggested edits and revisions. The draft of the revised document should be ready for review by the end of the year.

The next committee meeting will be on June 10, 2009.

If you would like more information about this committee please contact John Spencer, Ken Wallace or Mark Knight.

New Partnership!

CATT has partnered with Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC)!

To ensure continued excellent in our trenchless technology education program, CATT has joined with EIC. This means our workshops are now awarded EIC approved CEUs. Find out more about EIC and how CEU accreditation can improve you expertise here

SSET Benchmarking program is being revitalized!

Sewer Technologies Inc., located in Port Perry, Ontario, will be taking delivery of the first DigiSewer Camera system in January 2008. This will be the first DigiSewer camera system in North America. Once the DigiSewer camera system becomes operational, CATT will organize a meeting at Joe Johnson Equipment in Barrie to see the new DigiSewer system, to meet Sewer Technologies Inc., and to discuss the revitalization of the SSET Benchmarking program.

Please feel free to contact Mark Knight should you have any questions regarding the SSET project or you wish to be added to our mailing list to get further emails on this project.

GUEST SPEAKER

Kevin Bainbridge

TOPIC

“Trenchless Technology- The real reason Why”