Welcome to AECOM’s official UESI Pipelines 2025 Conference website. Here you can explore our full conference presence, helping you to plan your attendance.
In addition to sharing our insights via the presentations detailed below, we’ll be exhibiting PipeInsights™ along with our full conveyance and trenchless expertise at booth #509.
We look forward to seeing you in Tampa for this year’s conference.
Monday, August 11
Reid Mele, EIT, Civil Engineer (left) and Marc Cheneval, EIT, Municipal Engineer
Co-presenters
Co-authors with Samarium Zhao, Mark Waterworth and Angus Milne (AECOM)
Three mains, two reservoirs, one goal: Vancouver’s water mains are ready to shake things up
11:30 a.m. ET
Room 107-109
Rami Issa, Business Unit Leader, Water
Presenter
Co-author with Rishi Bhattarai (Dallas Water Utilities)
Between a rock and a hard place: A creative underground solution to very challenging surface conditions
10:30 a.m. ET
Room 107-109
Rami Issa, Business Unit Leader, Water
Presenter
Co-author with Xu Shi (North Texas Municipal Water District)
The flow trend is your friend until it ends: What happens when you tie two major raw water supply systems together?
1:30 p.m. ET
Room 120-121
Carolyn Bonaventura, Design-Build Project Manager
Presenter
Co-author with Omar R. Rodriguez (The Haskell Company) and Fernando Navarrete (AECOM)
The LaSalle Street Drainage Improvements Design Build Case Study
4:00 p.m. ET
Room 107-109
Chris Macey, Global Technical Practice Leader
Co-Presenter with David Patrick Kozman (Hammerhead Trenchless)
Co-author with Norman Edward Kampbell (Rehabilitation Resource Solutions) and Mohammadamin Tara (AECOM)
Transitioning to ASCE MOP 145 for close-fit liner design of circular gravity pipes
4:40 p.m. ET
Room 124-125
Marya Jetten, Conveyance Market Sector Lead – Americas
Presenter
Planning for not-so-trenchless large diameter trenchless rehab: Lessons learned and case studies
5:00 p.m. ET
Room 124-125
Tuesday, August 12
John Buser, Project Manager
Presenter
Co-author with Nick Lowe (AECOM) and Kane Wei (Austin Water)
Design of large diameter HDPE wastewater force main via horizontal directional drilling under the Colorado River
9:00 a.m. ET
Room 120-121
Samer Alkhatib, Southeast Water Regional Business Line Leader
Presenter
Co-author with Patricia Rendon (City of Miami Beach)
Utilizing artificial intelligence to support the City of Miami Beach SSES & Biscayne Bay Water Quality Improvement Program
9:30 a.m. ET
Room 118-119
Marya Jetten, Conveyance Market Sector Lead – Americas
Presenter
Co-author with Matthew Bennett (Peel Region)
The art of doing twice the work in half the time: A programmatic approach to accelerating population growth demands
2:30 p.m. ET
Room 120-121
Wednesday August 13
Marya Jetten, Conveyance Market Sector Lead – Americas
Moderator
D7 DIP assessment
8:00 a.m. ET
Room 118-119
Our award winners
Congratulations to the AECOM teams and individuals whose significant achievements will be recognized at this year’s Pipelines Conference:
Chris Macey for ASCE’s Excellence in Pipelines Award
2025 Project of the Year Award for Front Street Interceptor Rehabilitation Project, Capital Region Water
Marya Jetten for UESI Younger Member of the Year Award
