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We have worked on over 300 complex pipeline projects in 28 countries over 35 years and have offered over 100 seminars to over 5000 engineers, contractors, utilities, pipe associations, owners, manufacturers, lawyers and regulatory personnel on Advances in Underground Pipeline Design, Construction and Management. Samples of these activities are listed here:

Investigation of excessive deflection of large diameter HDPE profile pipe in Boynton Beach, Florida and investigating design deficiencies and construction problems of sewers and the outfall and working through all technical, legal, and construction problems.

Review of condition assessment data for ductile and pccp force mains from Wilmington, North Carolina, checking pipe designs for compliance with AWWA standards C 150 and C301-304 and recommending rehabilitation programs.

Review of Geotechnical baselines reports, designs, corrosion potential, and compliance with AWWA standards and technical specifications of welded steel and pccp pipelines at Catskill Delaware UV facility, New York.

Review of Geotechnical baselines reports, designs, corrosion potential, and compliance with AWWA standards of tunnel pipeline and serving on the Technical Advisory Board for Brooklyn to Staten Island replacement inverted siphons, New York.

Review of Geotechnical baselines reports, designs, and compliance with ASTM standards of 9 different large diameter sewer pipeline designs for Clinton CSO project by cut and cover and micro-tunneling in Syracuse, New York.

Review of Geotechnical baselines reports, designs, and compliance with ASTM standards of 7 different large diameter sewer pipeline designs for New Haven sewer project in Connecticut.

Member of the Value Engineering Team for the City of Columbus on OASIS sewer interceptor project that recommended a deep tunnel option at a cost of $ 168 million compared to the cut and cover option by prime design firm for $ 272 million.

Investigation of causes of leaks at wet taps and line stops on the RCCP pipeline at the Eastchester Delaware Pump Station project, New York.

Technical Advisor to General Telecommunications, Inc. in Anchorage, Alaska to build FTTH using existing rights of way and underground conduits.

Review of Geotechnical baselines reports, designs, and compliance with AWWA standards and technical specifications of HDPE road crossings at Collier County pipeline, Florida.

Global review of Pipeline inspection and transport technologies to do condition assessment of 7.5 mile long 42 inch PCCP force main that cannot be taken off service for Little Rock Wastewater Utility, Arkansas and doing remedial plans to increase flow capacity without causing failure of the pipeline.

Investigation of failures of a water main and a 128,000 volt cable in the same trench.

San Diego County's pipeline 4 extension design, specifications, and construction monitoring that resulted in over $ 20 millions in construction cost savings by implementing site-specific E prime values using a baseline geotechnical investigation.

Value engineering of San Diego's Rose Canyon sewer design and specifications.

Evaluation of pipeline materials for the Asian Development Bank.

QA/QC procedures for fabrication and testing of welded steel pipe, coatings, and linings.

Evaluation of fiberglass pipe for Medina Yanbu Desalination Plant in Saudi Arabia.

PCCP investigations in Texas, New Jersey, California, Arizona, Florida, Saudi Arabia, and several other locations.

Columbia Slough consolidation conduit design, Portland.

Columbia Slough outfall project design, Portland.

Water supply pipeline evaluation for the City of Portland.

Investigation of underground pipeline failures in Sacramento, CA, Dallas, TX, Lafayette, IN, Saudi Arabia, San Francisco, CA, San Diego, CA, Chattanooga, TN, Portland, OR, Rochester, NY, Bakersfield, CA, Atlanta, GA, Boynton Beach, FL, Milwaukee, WI, Reno, NV, Eastchester, NY, etc.

San Diego's first microtunneling project design specifications, and construction monitoring.

San Diego's first directional boring project design specifications.

Value engineering of several buried pipeline projects around the globe.

Geotechnical work, evaluation of E', design, and specifications for several major pipeline projects.

Deployment of optical fiber networks in existing pipelines.

Market research studies for the pipeline construction and renovation industry.

Market research studies for the blowers and industrial fans industry.

Designs using soil-structure interaction of numerous buried structures, and pipeline projects.

High-pressure penstocks inside of existing outlet tunnels.

Siphon penstocks over existing embankment dams.

Several pipeline current condition analyses and design specifications for renovation.

San Diego's Bonita pipeline design, specifications, and construction monitoring.

Natural gas transmission pipe design, bidding specifications, and construction troubleshooting.

Design of water crossings for natural gas pipelines.

Design of high-pressure welded steel oil pipeline in permafrost in Kuparuk, Alaska.

Review of design manuals on gas pipelines.

Market studies on pipeline integrity assessment and rehabilitation for the water, wastewater, oil, gas, and products pipelines in USA.

Training of oil and gas pipe design engineers from 1984 till 1997, every single year through seminars taught in hotels throughout the world titled "Recent Advances in Pipeline Materials, Design, Construction, and Rehabilitation."

Training engineers from Saudi Aramco in Dubai and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Training engineers from Saline Water Conversion Corporation, Saudi Arabia in Al Jubail for 3 weeks on Design, Manufacturing, Testing, Installation, and Operation of Fiber Glass Pipelines.

Testing and quality control of fiberglass pipe during production in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

Testing and Quality Control of welded steel pipe and coating during production in Adelanto, CA.

Review and interpretation of pipe design using Caeser II on welded steel and fiberglass piping for petroleum and desalination plants.

Helping COADE of Caeser II to recognize that the way they model soil behavior and soil-pipe interaction effects is over-simplified and assisting them with an outline of how to improve these options with better soil models.

Investigation of potential underwater sediment flow slides and its consequences at Tarbella Dam, Pakistan.

Investigations of potential flow failures of copper tailings dams in Chile, phosphate tailings dams in Florida, and thickened bauxite mine tailings dams in Canada.

Evaluation of building foundations for bearing capacity and settlement.

Evaluation of static and seismic stability of embankment dams and slopes.

Evaluation of contamination at industrial sites and its impact on groundwater.





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