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Trenchless City: preserving the environment Hosted by the FSTT, the seventh Ville Sans Tranchée (VST) 2009 will take place from 16-18 June in Rosny-sous-Bois in Paris. Following on from the international No-Dig 2009 in Toronto, VST looks set to be a comprehensive, informative and dynamic event. The VST event, Trenchless City, has grown steadily over time, and this year will see approximately 100 exhibitors – compared with 60 in 2005 and 80 in 2007 – from France and around the world, including project owners and managers, businesses, suppliers, and equipment companies. VST is the foremost French National exhibition devoted purely to trenchless works and technology. The event provides answers for those seeking information regarding methods of pipeline installation, repair and replacement that are less invasive then open cut methods. Trenchless Technology is less disruptive to residents and business. Furthermore, the projects are carried out more quickly and more safely. One of the unique characteristics of VST is that it combines booths under a huge marquee structure, and equipment demonstrations outside on the Rosny-sous-Bois stage. Technical managers of local groups and communities, as well as elected representatives, will appreciate being able to see microtunnellers and pipe-bursters in action. Trenchless trophies For the third time at the VST, the FSTT will award the ‘trenchless trophies’, recognising the top innovative achievements and initiatives in trenchless works and projects. Open to businesses, local bodies, and students/researchers, the competition will reward the best projects from these categories, and will also recognise the trenchless Person of the Year. This last award honours an individual who has had a marked impact on the French trenchless industry. Founded in 1990, the FSTT is a professional association, of both a scientific and technical nature, that primarily seeks to promote awareness and disseminate practical knowledge about trenchless techniques, as well as advancing research and training in the area. Promoting a trenchless environment In gearing up for the VST, the FSTT recently exhibited at a massive international environmental expo to raise awareness of the importance and various benefits of Trenchless Technology. The FSTT said that the great success of the recent Pollutec Horizons event, held in Lyon, was great news and bodes well for the VST. Pollutec Horizons is an annual international exhibition of equipment, technology and environmental services. Over the four-day exhibition, many people visited the FSTT booth, allowing the Society to communicate to people, who were either completely uninformed or knew very little about the sector, just how and why trenchless solutions are beneficial to the planet. The trenchless industry was well represented at the event, with a number of FSTT members in attendance, such as Sade, Tracto Technic, CMR-MSR, Hydrovideo, SET, and Serpolet among others. Afterwards, organisers said that the event had received 73,668 visitors, the first time that attendees had exceeded 70,000. International visitors comprised 11.4 per cent of the total attendance, with 8,422 professionals of 110 different nationalities. The next Pollutec Horizons event will be held in Paris from 1-4 December 2009, focusing on the environment and sustainable development. Population boom good sign for trenchless A recent French survey – and perhaps reflective of other parts of the world – conducted by the French Institution for Statistics and Economic Studies showed that approximately 60 per cent of the population is centralised around urban hubs; 27.7 per cent living in the city centres, and 32.5 per cent in the surrounding suburbs. Population inevitably equals a growing need for more installation, repair/ rehabilitation and maintenance of underground pipeline networks. This increasing demand, together with the necessity for durable developments, requires works that reduce: • Pollution • Noise • Carbon emissions • and, environmental disruption. All of this provides the ideal context for the increasing use and popularity of Trenchless Technology, which meets all of the above needs and more. Translated by Michelle Perl. IDS_high_res_HPH.pdf 25/2/09 9:48:58 AM 1.4 1.2 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.0 Rural 1999-2006 1982-1999 0.7 0.3 Urban 0.5 1.2 1.3 Suburban After decreasing, and then remaining constant, the rural population has been steadily increasing at a rate of 0.7 per cent annually. 1999-2 1982-1 istt news C M istt news Y CM MY April 2009 - Trenchless International CY CMY K April 2009 - Trenchless International 14 15
Events ISTT International No Dig 2009 Toronto, Canada 29 March – 3 April 2009 www.nodigshow.com Wasser Berlin 2009 Berlin, Germany 30 March – 3 April 2009 www.wasser-berlin.de PFTT celebrates ten years The Polish Foundation for Trenchless Technology (PFTT) has recently celebrated its ten year anniversary. Remembering a trenchless Pioneer The life and contribution of Dr Satoru Tohyama, a Trenchless Technology pioneer in Japan and the ISTT, is remembered by friend and colleague Ted Flaxman. istt news April 2009 - Trenchless International UKSTT Awards Dinner Birmingham, UK 24 April 2009 www.ukstt.org.uk CityPipe 2009 Moscow, Russia 26 – 29 May 2009 www.citypipe.ru Ville Sans Tranchée (VST ) / Trenchless City Paris, France 16 – 18 June 2009 www.fstt.org SWE Japan Tokyo, Japan June 2009 www.jswa.jp/ Modern Trenchless Technologies Ukraine June 2009 www.no-dig.odessa.ua Engineering 2009 Tomaszowice, Poland 16 - 18 June 2009 www.i-b.pl/conference/ DT Exhibition 2009 Cheltenham, UK 16 – 17 September 2009 www.dtexhibition.com Trenchless Australasia 2009 Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia 20 - 22 September 2009 www.trenchless2009.com ICUEE 2009 Louisville, USA 6 – 8 October 2009 www.icuee.com International Pipelines and Trenchless Technology Conference Shanghai, China 18 – 21 October 2009 www.icptt.org over the last decade, the PFTT has succeeded in achieving its central purpose of promoting the use of Trenchless Technology in Poland. The PFTT is very active at both a national and international level. The foundation is one of the co-organisers of the Polish No-Dig conference; an international event held every second year in Kielce. The next conference, themed Trenchless Technologies in Environmental Engineering No-Dig Poland 2010, will be held in April 2010. The founder of the PFTT was Per Aarsleff Polska Director Arkadiusz Bachan. The foundation’s first Chairman was Jerzy Adamski, also a Chairman of Kielce Waterworks. Following Mr Adamski, Marek Banasik led the PFTT. For the last three years its Chairman has been Andrzej Kuliczkowski (pictured). The PFTT was awarded the 2008 No-Dig Award in the Academic Category for organising a twelve month course in Trenchless Technology. This year, in conjunction with the Kielce University of Technology, the PFTT will offer an international post graduate course from the 2 to the 22 September (See Issue 2 Trenchless International). To encourage the study of trenchless solutions, the foundation grants an annual award for the best master thesis involving Trenchless Technology. The PFTT also supports various initiatives including two polish magazines, trade fairs and conferences through the generous support of council and supporting members. The ten year anniversary was commemorated with the presentation of PFTT Chairman Andrzej Kuliczkowski. From left Dec Downey, Jerzy Adamski, Arkadiusz Bachan and Andrzej Kuliczkowski. Jubilee Expert statuettes. The statuettes were awarded to Arkadiusz Bachan and Jerzy Adamski for their personal contribution to the foundation and development of the PFTT. The Jubilee Expert was also granted to ISTT Chairman Dec Downey for his outstanding activity in promoting Trenchless Technology at an international level. Polish Foundation for Trenchless Technology akulicz@tu.kielce.pl www.pftt.pl Although it was more than 20 years ago, I well remember my first meeting with Dr Tohyama. It took place in London on 15 April 1985, on a River Thames boat where we had arranged a dinner for Chairmen and Authors of papers on the evening before the opening of No-Dig 85. I was immediately impressed by two things about him. First, his friendliness and easy approachability and secondly, the great respect in which he was obviously held by the other Japanese delegates present, who clearly knew him well. That was an important meeting for me. It led to a long and very fruitful friendship which, sadly, came to an end recently with Dr Tohyama’s death. The news of his death must have saddened a great many people, both in Japan and various other countries round the world, who had come to know him during his long and distinguished career. I am grateful for this opportunity to put on record my appreciation of his major contribution to the trenchless initiative worldwide. Even before we met, he had shown his keen interest and strong support for the first No-Dig event. He had submitted a paper on Microtunnelling in Japan, which we felt to be so important that he was asked to present it during the opening session of the Conference. Also, he had brought to England a party of 30 from Japan – the largest overseas delegation at the Conference. During the closing session of the Conference, the formation of an international society was proposed. The support of the Japanese delegates and of Dr Tohyama in particular, was a great encouragement. We kept in touch and in October 1986 I had an opportunity to visit Tokyo. It was typical of Dr Tohyama that although my plane arrived in Tokyo more than 12 hours late – due to a mishap before leaving Heathrow – he nevertheless met me at the airport in the evening and conveyed me to my hotel. The following day we had very useful discussions about the newly formed ISTT and about the next event planned for London, No-Dig Dr Satoru Tohyama. 87. He also arranged for me to pay visits to the Iseki Poly factory and, when I moved on to Singapore, to several microtunnelling construction sites. In 1987, Dr Tohyama again led a major delegation to the No-Dig event in London, and it was in that year that the ISTT really began to develop as an international organisation. Plans were agreed for holding No-Dig 88 in Washington DC, in collaboration with the American Water Pollution Control Federation. Dr Tohyama accepted an invitation to become Vice- President of the ISTT in recognition of the key role that he was already playing in the Society’s development worldwide. He again led a substantial Japanese delegation to the Washington DC event and it was there that the first tentative discussions took place about the formation of National Societies that would be affiliated to the ISTT. The Netherlands Society was created first and Japan soon followed with the JSTT, which was formed with a splendid initial membership of more than 150 in April 1989, with Dr Tohyama as its Chairman. This led to proposals for an International No-Dig event to be held in Osaka in 1990, organised jointly by the JSTT and ISTT. The Executive Secretary of the ISTT Col Jon Sutro and I visited Japan in February 1990 and were much impressed by the arrangements proposed by Dr Tohyama and his team. When the event took place in October of that year, it attracted the largest number of attendees for any No-Dig to date – just over 1,000 – and also included the presentation of the largest number of papers to date. When it was over we had a special ‘round-up’ meeting of those who had been involved in organising this highly successful event, followed by a dinner. It was not a large gathering and it was very informal, but I remember it well. At the conclusion of the meal Dr Tohyama invited me to say a few words and in my response I emphasised how pleasing it was that two teams of people from very different cultural and historic backgrounds had collaborated so easily, that our common interest in promoting Trenchless Technology had enabled us to work so well together. As we parted, he shook me repeatedly by the hand with a warmth that I am sure echoed his own pride that the first International No-Dig in Asia had been such a fine achievement. We met repeatedly after that, in many different parts of the world. He attended every International No-Dig in places as diverse as Paris, Hamburg, New Orleans, Copenhagen, Dresden, Taipei, Prague, Birmingham, Genoa, Perth and Budapest, always leading a substantial Japanese delegation and always ensuring that papers were presented illustrating the steady progress of the technology in Japan. We also met on other occasions, such as Lord Nugent’s lunches in London, and even — by chance — occasionally in airport lounges. When an International Committee was set up in the early days, Dr Tohyama was one of the founding members and when the International Board was established a few years later he became one of the small team, which during his lifetime grew to a board of more than 20 directors. His contribution to the ISTT was so outstanding that it was recognised first with a Gold Medal in 1995 and then in 1998 when he accepted an invitation to become the ISTT’s first and only President. Drafting this note about Dr Tohyama has brought back a flood of memories. His dedication to golf; the friendly presence of his wife during many of the early No-Digs; his chairmanship of Working Group No 3 on microtunnelling, which produced several excellent reports; and the quiet way in which he would interject sound ideas into the Board’s discussions. He was a wonderful man and a great civil engineer. It was a pleasure and a privilege to have known him. istt news April 2009 - Trenchless International 16 17
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