NASTT’s Direct Steerable Pipe Thrusting Good Practices Course – VIRTUAL
NASTT’s newest course for Direct Steerable Pipe Thrusting (DSPT) is an 8-hour course covering good practices for design and construction. The course is ideal for owners, engineers, and contractors interested in learning about the DSPT technology, its applications, and limitations. The virtual edition is taught over two days with each day consisting of a 4 hour module.
The course includes a discussion of the development of DSPT including Horizontal Directional Boring, Direct Pipe®, and Prime Pusher. It also includes an overview of the process and DSPT specific equipment. Other discussion items include: feasibility studies to facilitate design and construction, geotechnical considerations, geometric design, steel pipe design, work space requirements, construction sequencing, permitting, and contracting.
Date: December 3-4
Time: 11:00AM – 3:00PM both days, breaks provided
Location: Virtual webinar format
Instructors: Jon Robison, Alan Snider, Drew Sparks, Webb Winston
Cost:
Discounted Member Rate – $300.00 USD
Non-Member Rate – $350.00 USD
Fee includes attendance to the course, course handouts and a Continuing Education Unit certificate issued by Louisiana Tech University. The digital training manual will be sent prior to the course.
You do not need to be a member to register for the course, however, you must create a user account in the NASTT user portal to submit your registration.
Contact:
Kari Webb
kwebb@nastt.org
888-388-2554
Meet the Instructors
Jon Robison, P.E., GeoEngineers: Jon holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Missouri S&T and is a licensed Professional Engineer in 15 US states. Jon’s project work includes geotechnical evaluations, trenchless engineering, and construction consulting for many long (some over 1 mile in length) and otherwise industry-significant Direct Pipe and Horizontal Directional Drilling crossings throughout the US and internationally. Jon has authored or co-authored over 20 peer reviewed papers and publications about trenchless and geotechnical engineering and construction, and he currently chairs the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Trenchless Installation of Pipelines (TIPs) Committee, the coordinating group for all trenchless engineering Manuals of Practice (MOPs), Standards, and other activities within ASCE. Jon also chaired the MOP committee for the recently published Direct Steerable Pipe Thrusting MOP #155. In addition to his project work focus, Jon currently leads more than 30 engineers, geologists, and other staff located in offices throughout the US in GeoEngineers’ Pipelines Discipline.
Alan P. Snider, P.E., The Crossing Group: Alan is a trenchless technology professional with over 35 years of experience in trenchless engineering and construction utilizing Direct Steerable Pipe Thrusting (DSPT) and Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) technologies. Alan is the President and a Partner for The Trenchless Company since 2020 and has over 12 years and 21 installations of DSPT construction experience. The DSPT crossings have ranged from 30-48-inches in diameter and lengths up to and including a North American record 5,000-foot shore approach in southern Texas. He also served as the Blue Ribbon Committee Chair for ASCE’s Manual of Practice 155 – Direct Steerable Pipe Thrusting, assisted in the preparation and preparation of the first DSPT Good Practices Guideline course and has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed papers for the ASCE Pipelines and NASTT NO-Dig Conferences.
He has his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Arkansas and is currently a licensed Professional Engineer in Oklahoma. Alan also has extensive experience with HDD’s, including over 2,000 HDD designs and/or construction installations ranging from 4-inch to 56-inches with lengths up to 12,000 feet. The HDD installations included shore approaches, water-to-water crossings, pilot hole intersects, mountain crossings, bundled crossings, and road bores. Having worked internationally and been part of numerous world record setting crossings associated with both DSPT and HDD, Alan has proven operational, financial, and budget management skills from front end feasibility/engineering through project construction completion.
Andrew Sparks, P.E, Laney Directional Drilling: Drew Sparks is a geotechnical engineer with 28 years of experience and is a registered professional engineer in 27 states. He has 21 years of experience in designing Horizontal Directional Drill and Direct Pipe® projects up to 48-inches in diameter and lengths over 13,000 feet.
Drew worked on a team of engineers to develop a design procedure for Direct Pipe® design as well as developed a proprietary software program to evaluate the hydraulic fracture and drilling fluid surface release risk for Horizontal Directional Drill and Direct Pipe® crossings.
Drew received his B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering from Brigham Young University. Drew served as Secretary for the ASCE Manual of Practice Committee for Direct Pipe®, currently serves as a Board of Director for the North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT) and is the Director of Engineering for the engineering group of Laney Directional Drilling.
Webb Winston, P.E., Williams: David “Webb” Winston, PE is a Principal Engineer for Williams Companies, an energy company that handles approximately one third of the natural gas in the United States. Webb specializes in trenchless engineering and construction services for the company and serves as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Williams’ trenchless pipeline installations enterprise-wide. He is currently based out of the Houston, TX office and has held several positions at Williams including Construction Management roles and Pipeline Engineering Lead for the Northeast Gathering and Processing Operating Area. Prior to joining Williams, Webb held engineering and project management roles specializing in construction management, design engineering, project management, and geotechnical investigation and analysis for trenchless projects. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Arkansas, a M.S. in Construction Management from Arizona State University, a graduate certificate in Underground Construction and Tunnel Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
