MABY5340 Water Infrastructure, Trenches and No-Dig Course description

Students will learn how to build an overall strategy for building and retrofitting pipe network systems. The course will focus on technologies for infrastructure building in the ground, and as such dig and NO-dig methods and their relevance to infrastructure projects will be reviewed.

Additional emphasis will be given to coordination and optimization of ground work in typical infrastructure projects, including e.g., district heating systems, electricity supply cables, broadband, etc. Furthermore, lectures will focus on how to retrofit and adapt piping systems to sustainable surface water (rain and snowmelt water) management, also in relation to regional aspects in accordance with the 3-step strategy. Students will train on tools and methods used for life-long infrastructure management with specific emphasis on climate change impacts and environment risks; they will also develop an appreciation of that the deduction of these impacts can yield different outcomes. An emphasis will be given to develop an overall understanding of urban water infrastructure, including drinking water supply, sewage pipe network and wastewater treatment works.

The students will make use of SWMM, Mike+, Epanet, Scalgo, REN grøft or similar software in this course.

No formal requirements over and above the admission requirements. It’s an advantage to have fulfilled the course Urban Pipe Systems in semester 1.

Lectures and exercises.

None

Individual written exam under supervision, three hours.

The exam grade can be appealed.

In the event of a resit or rescheduled individual written exam, oral examination may be used instead. If oral exams are used for resit and rescheduled exams, the result cannot be appealed

Aids enclosed with the exam paper and a handheld calculator that cannot be used for wireless communication. If the calculator's internal memory can store data, the memory must be deleted before the exam. Random checks may be made

Graded scale A-F

One internal examiner. External examiners are used regularly.

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