Precast Concrete Trenchless Installation

Speaker:  Mafe Pinzon, P.Eng. – Langley Concrete

Presentation Description

As cities grow, avoiding surface interruptions to install underground infrastructure has become a common practice. To accommodate future growth in cities and highly populated urban areas, contractors are more inclined to use trenchless installations over the traditional open-cut method due to their versatility and to minimize the impact of construction on the public. Precast Concrete has become the product of choice in many new installations due mainly to its inherited strength and its ability to withstand all the loads in all the different directions that the pipe will experience during construction as well as throughout its service life. Trenchless installations help developers and contractors accommodate future growth in cities and highly populated urban areas at an affordable price with minimum surface disruptions.

This presentation will give you basic knowledge regarding trenchless installation, its benefits, and the different precast concrete options. Then, the presentation will go more into depth about the type of precast concrete options available for trenchless installation, design considerations, and best practices. Lastly, we will review some case studies of successful trenchless installations in Canada.

Speaker Bio

Mafe Pinzon is the Sales and Marketing Manager at The Langley Concrete Group. Mafe has a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and is a professional engineer registered in the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. She has 17 years of work experience, 8 in the underground infrastructure industry as technical resources engineer. Mafe strongly advocates for women in the engineering and construction industries and continuously promotes the importance of underground infrastructure. Mafe is a member of the ASTM C13 Committee and is part of the board of directors of the North America Society Trenchless Technologies NASTT, BC Chapter and Public Works Association BC Chapter.