TAUP 2007

International Symposium

Trees and Underground Pipes

- Busting the myths -

in cooperation with

 
DBU - Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt
(German Environmental Foundation)		   DWA Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft,
Abwasser und Abfall e.V.
(German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste)
 
Ministry of the Environment and Conservation,
Agriculture and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia



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23./24. May 2007
Gelsenkirchen, Germany

30 min. from Düsseldorf
- International Airport -

In urban areas trees grow in the vicintity of sewers, drains and service pipes. Their roots grow into cracks and pipe connections. This leads to a couple of conflicts between trees and underground pipes.
At IKT-Institute for Underground Infrastructure, Germany, researchers, aborists and network operators will meet to discuss problems and solutions.

Symposium

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Excavation for gathering
root growth
under conditions of a sewer trench

In 1998 IKT started to work on projects dealing with root penetration into sewers. Actually IKT is working on four „root“-projects with various objectives, all to reduce the conflict between trees and underground infrastructure.

At the same time the EU-project COST C15 was working on strategies improving the relation between technical infrastructure and vegetation and preventing conflicts by an international, interdisciplinary approach.

The International Symposium „Trees and Underground Pipes“ will serve as a perfect venue to exchange recent results of interdisciplinary research, to discuss technical and organisational solutions and to create cooperation for further research.

Accompanying Exhibition

The conference is accompanied by an technical exhibition. Suppliers of pipes, root-protection-systems, substrates etc. are invited to present and demonstrate their products.

About IKT

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IKT-Institute for Underground
Infrastructure

The IKT is a neutral, independent, non-profit research, testing and consulting institute. It works on questions of the construction of underground pipes and networks for gas, water and waste-water. As an independent and reliable partner for utilities, sewer system operators, water associations and industry the IKT offers highly specialized and cutting edge research and testing technologies in a practical, application-orientated manner.

The cooperation of water management and research is practiced by the IKT – Institute for Underground Infrastructure since its establishment in 1994. Well-known companies for water supply/distribution and sewerage are working on transfer between science, research and economy within the IKT supporting bodies.

Further information:
IKT:           www.ikt.de
COST C15:  www-pot.lt.slu.se/costc15/

Programme in details (PDF, 1,5MB)

Programme

 

 

International Symposium

23rd May 2007 

 

 

Reception and registration  

Session 1: 

Trees and pipes – an introduction  
(Importance of trees and underground pipelines and how they interact)

Session 2: 

Basics of root growth – busting the myths  
Chairman: Örjan Stål, SLU, Sweden

Session 3: 

Understanding how and why trees cause damage  
Chairman: Franz-Peter Heidenreich, DBU, Germany

Session 4: 

Penetration of pipe joints  
Chairman: Iain Naismith, WRc, UK

 

 

24th May 2007 

 

Session 5: 

Planning for trees and pipelines  
Chairman: Don Ridgers, Thames Water, UK

Session 6: 

What have we learned, what do we still not understand
and what do we need to do about it  
Chairman: Bert Bosseler, IKT, Germany

Session 7: 

Excursion  

 

 

Accompanying events

 

Exhibition  

 

Get together: Symposium Eve  

22nd May 2007 

Project Advisory Group Meeting „Tree roots and pipe bedding materials“  

25th May 2007 

DWA Working Group Meeting (ES 3.6) „Trees, sewers and service pipes“  

 

 


 

 

Symposium Venue:

IKT – Institute for Underground Infrastructure
Exterbruch 1
D - 45886 Gelsenkirchen
Tel.: +49 (0)209 17806-0
Fax: +49 (0)209 17806-88
Homepage: www.ikt.de
E-Mail: taup2007@ikt.de

Contact:

Dipl.-Ing. Christoph Bennerscheidt
Tel.: +49 (0)209 17806-25
E-Mail: bennerscheidt@ikt.de

Programme Committee

  • Bosseler, Bert (IKT, D)
  • Bennerscheidt, Christoph (IKT, D)
  • Naismith, Iain (WRc, UK)
  • Ridgers, Don (Thames Water, UK)
  • Schröder, Klaus (City of Osnabrück, D)
  • Stål, Örjan (University Ålnarp, S)
  • Streckenbach, Markus (Ruhr-University Bochum, D)
  • Stützel, Thomas (Ruhr-University Bochum, D)