Field Workshops

SITE AND SOIL ASSESSMENT FIELD WORKSHOP

Date: Saturday, March 8, 2025
Location: Qualicum Beach, Vancouver Island
Instructors: Jim Andersen, ASct, ROWP, and Ian Ralston, P.L.Eng.
Fee: $425 + GST

This workshop offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience at an exceptional site with diverse soil conditions, topography, landform positions, and drainage patterns.

Instructor-Led Training Activities:

1. Site Assessment
   • Conduct a site walk-through to identify constraints, challenges, and opportunities across varying site conditions.
2. Soils Classification
   • Log test pit observations, working with a variety of test pits representing different soil types and depths.
3. Permeability Testing
   • Perform permeability testing using conventional percolation tests, permeameters, and ring infiltrometers.
4. Preliminary Design Concepts
   • Develop suitable design concepts for various areas of the site, including locations with favorable conditions and those with shallow water tables or challenging soils.

Optional Comprehensive Design Exercise:
Participants are invited to create a complete design for the site. The Applied Science Technologists and Technicians of British Columbia (ASTTBC) recognizes this design as eligible for submission as one of the three required work examples for Planner applications.

Pre-Workshop Online Training Session:
To reinforce soil-based treatment principles and soil classification skills, participants will be invited to a online training session prior to the field day (Thursday, March 6, 2025, 6:30 - 9:00 pm) at no additional cost.

MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION PRACTICUM. We offer a maintenance and inspection practicum opportunity. Jim provides one-on-one support for your assessment of a sewerage system in Nanoose Bay, BC. A pipe camera is provided. This practicum is intended for one or two participants per session. You can expect to spend at least four hours on-site, followed by the creation of formal reports and drawings with desktop review by Jim. You pick the date, subject to Jim's availability.

Fees: $350 plus GST.