Trenchless Methods, as the name suggests, are methods used for installing new underground pipelines (water, sewage, natural gas, energy, communications) not opening a trench, and guided by instruments. Because of this and thinking a lot about the participants who have an imperative need to "get their hands dirty", we created a few years ago, in our training center, practical classes where all the TRENCHLESS activities taught in the Theoretical Course can be observed in the TC and also in THE JOBSITE.
We will train you with the best practices in the extensive area of trenchlessto the most diversified demands in the application of TRENCHLESS In the real world. Here, you will also be part of the construction of the TRENCHLESSas a practice and put your knowledge to work.
With the installation of pilot executions in our testing field, the student will have the opportunity to materialize the theoretical learnigs and follow the operation, and, in some cases, participate in it putting his hands on, understanding how the preliminary information, the conception and the technical viability were important on the successful execution of the installation of a new network, or the renovation of an old network, by trenchless.
The program is divided into the modules:
1) Directional Horizontal Drilling
• General review of the entire theoretical agenda, in a very objective and reviewing way.
• Visit the place for each exploration of the themes:
• Cinematics of drilling machines
• Auxiliary systems for insertion and stocking of rods
• Drilling Head and Probe
• Drill Head Locator and Probe
• Drill Force Controls, (1) Pullback andThrust (2) Torque (3) Fluid Pressure
• Field Set-up
• Entry and exit angles
• Start of drilling
• Progress and Tracking of a Complete Hole
• Drilling in Curves (Vertical and Horizontal)
• Targets
• Straight drilling
• Back reaming (Tool Change)
• Drilling Fluid
• Composition
• Tactile Soil Assessment
• Fluid Preparation
• Calculation of Pump Flow x Pullback Speed and Drill Thrust
• Pull Back (Pipe Pull to be installed)
• Pullback Forces
• Stress in the Piping and Rods
• Fluid, flow, speed and pressure
• As Built in real time with DATA LOGGER
2) PIPE BURSTING (No CT noções básicas) Execução em obra real
• Hydraulic principles
• Set up
• Pressures
3)THERMOFUSION
• Principles of Thermofusing and Preparation
• Cleaning, Face Cutting (parallelism), Heating, and Fusing Pressure
4) POINT REPAIR and CIPP
• Package preparation
• Insertion into the pipe to be repaired
• Inflating, Cure
• Unpacking and repair assessment
5) MICROTUNNEL (PILOT TUBE)
• Preparation of Shafts
• Machine Setup
• Drilling and Removal of excavated material
• Piping jacking
• Slope check up
6) PIPE JACKING WITH PNEUMATIC HAMMER (SOFT)
• Principle of Operation
• Coupling Hammer to Tube, and Hammer to Compressor
• Jacking Speed Measurement
• Pipe Cleaning
7) NETWORK INSPECTION
• Preliminary Inspection with Zoom or Periscopic Camera
• Inspection with Robotic Camera
• Image evaluation, diagnosis and use of Artificial Intelligence to interpret the images
8) GEOPHYSICS
• Network Location with Georadar
• Controlled place
• Image Analysis
• Electroresistivity and comparison with SPT
Inumerous publications will be made available for download and for the composition of your reference file, in addition to books published in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Among these publications, we highlight:
• Guidelines for the Use of Mini Directional Horizontal Drilling for the installation of High Density Polyethylene pipes, from the North American PPI
• Best Practices for Reducing Risks of Intersection of Gas Networks and Sewerage Networks by TRENCHLESS from the North American CBSA
• Trenchless Technology, by Prof. Dr. Mohammad Najafi of UTA in Arlington
• Horizontal Directional Drilling, by Professors and Doctors, Samuel Ariaratnam, and David Bennett
• Pipe Bursting, from NASTT North America
Basic and Environmental Sanitation Engineers and Technicians, Civil Engineers dedicated to the area of Public Services, Engineers in charge of the Maintenance of Underground Pipeline Networks, Desing Engineers of Infrastructure Systems, Production and Distribution of Raw and Potable Water, Sewage, Natural Gas, Energy, Telecommunications, and Surface Drainage, Engineers and Technicians of the Operating Systems of these Public Services, Infrastructure Contractors.
Undergraduate Civil Engineering students in the several public service subjects.
Experience:
Engineer Sérgio Palazzo is a Mechanical Engineer P.E. who explored in the early years of his professional career the application of technologies and machines dedicated to the infrastructure sector. Later, he expanded his training with Postgraduate Courses in Business Administration at Harvard Business University, and Production Management at the Federal University of São Carlos – UFSCar. He recently added to his curriculum a postgraduate training in Basic and Environmental Sanitation Engineering from UNIP-INBEC. For more than three decades he has been linked to the global trenchless sector, being part of the Executive Subcommitte of the International Society for Trenchless Technology (ISTT) for seven years, the key Association for Trenchless Methods. He traveled across five continents, experiencing and accessing the lessons learned by more than 20 countries, and attended numerous classes abroad to complement and update his knowledge. He translated several works into Portuguese with the aim of filling this Brazilian gap in the infrastructure sector, adding to Brazilian authors the complementarity of the TRENCHLESSfor the sectors, infrastructure and public services. He teaches several courses in the field of trenchless, has trained more than 5000 technicians and engineers, in addition to having exercised the direct execution of most of the methods that focus on his training. He is responsible for the Consulting Engineering of the sector, providing services to designers, concessionaires, contractors and construction managers.
Workload:
32 (thirty-two) hours, divided into 8 (eight) blocks of 4 (four hours) each, with group dynamics to practice and solve exercises related to inspection, and analysis of real works.
