TRAINING.

Overview

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the reasons for constructing wastewater pump stations
• Know the most common issues to be addressed during the design process
• Apply principles of value, risk and economics in an objective decision-making process for optimizing conceptual designs
• Understand a process for critically examining designs to ensure effectiveness, reliability and safety
• Be familiar with legislated requirements and detailed design criteria

Description
Wastewater pump stations are used to lift flow from low points, and drain storage systems of various types are used in collection systems with a combination of advantages and disadvantages compared to gravity sewer systems. Optimizing the design of pump stations by applying value engineering and risk analysis processes, supported by the discounted cash-flow method, to select the best choice from a range of options.

The principles of sustainability are applied to objectively decide value factors and the hazards and operations methoda used to ensure effectiveness, reliability and safety. Detailed design criteria for function and practical and safe operation are reviewed.

Who Should Attend
Project managers, design engineers, engineering technologists

Special Features:

• Comprehensive notes and PowerPoint presentations in electronic formats will be made available.
• The course material presents a combination of planning and design aspects of wastewater pump stations not common in a single source in widely available publications on the subject.

Required Resources:

• Computer with internet service

Please note: You can check other time zones here.

Syllabus

Course Outline

• Reasons for constructing wastewater pump stations
• Application of value engineering
• Application of risk analysis
• Discounted cash flow method
• Evaluation of options by means of risk-adjusted value
• Principles of sustainability
• Application of the hazards and operations method
• Legislated requirements
• Design criteria
• Worked example

Instructor

Michael Porretta, P.Eng. PMP

Michael has over 30 years of experience in planning, designing, constructing, and maintaining wastewater collection systems.

He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta, the Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) and the Institution of Water and Environmental Management (Great Britain), and he previously served on the Western Canada Water Committee and the South Wales branch of the Institution of Water and Environmental Management Committee.