J. C. Ellis, Inc

J. C. Ellis, Inc. is pleased to offer two comprehensive outside plant conduit engineering training courses. Please select the course area below to view a description.

Conduit Design  

Public Works Impact

 

Conduit Design is an informative week of learning the intricacies of designing an underground conduit system in a safe, economic, fully usable, code and standard compliant manner. The course is targeted for both Engineering and Construction personnel that have responsibility for doing, or overseeing, the design or construction of Telephone Underground Conduit Systems.

The following items are thoroughly covered:

• When design and placement of conduit is appropriate.
• What types of conduit are in use in today's plant and what the present selection of new conduit pipe is available.
• How to size a new manhole.
• Where to place a new manhole for maximum safety of both the public and Telephone personnel.
• Where and how to terminate and identify all types of conduit.
• How to rebuild a manhole using both Pre-Cast and Cast-in-Place design.
• How to calculate pulling tension to insure that all conduit sections will accommodate new cable.
• How conduit and manholes are placed in the ground and what construction techniques are available.
• Site selection and placing methods for all types of Remote Terminals.
• Environmental concerns for the placement of underground structures.
• Special construction considerations such as airports, Inter-State Highways and Navigable Waterways and permit requirements.
• How to develop a workable conduit design work print.

Upon completion of the lecture of portion of the course, students are divided into groups and are given a real life conduit design problem to solve and prepare work prints for a class presentation. A 100 question Certification Test is available at the end of the class. At the present this test is voluntary.

Public Works Impact is a full week of learning how public works projects affect existing Telephone plant, how to read public works project prints, how to identify conflicts, and how to design possible solutions to eliminate conflicts.

The areas of concern that are studied in depth are:

• Identification of the types of Public works project that will have a possible negative impact on the existing Telephone Facilities.
• Review of the different types of Telephone plant in place and what types of damage can occur as a result of a public works project.
• Construction techniques for road, sewer, and bridge projects.
• Surveyor and Engineer techniques for developing work prints for public works projects, this includes a listing of all standard symbols and abbreviations of terms commonly in use. Both English and Metric scales are discussed and each student is presented with a set of scales and an English/Metric conversion calculator to use and keep for their use on the job.
• How to read a public works project work prints. Each type of print used for road, sewer and bridge construction is studied in depth. All of the information available on each print is examined and related as to its importance to the location of telephone plant. Each student is presented with a Magnifying glass to aid in reading details of the prints both in class and on their job.
• Potential conflict location identification techniques are discussed.
• Where to have test hole data examined and collected for the greatest and most economical impact.
• How and where to plot test hole data and how to analyze the information the data is giving.
• Reimbursement of conflict resolutions, when it is appropriate, and when to ask the project designer for alterations to the project design.

Upon completion of the lecture portion of the course, students are divided into groups and are given a real life public works design problem. They are to identify potential conflicts, determine where test holes are to be dug, analyze the test hole data by plotting the information on the appropriate road project prints, and determine the most economical solution to eliminating any conflicts. They will then prepare a set of work prints for a class presentation. A 100 question Certification Test is available at the end of the class. At the present this test is voluntary.