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54 position is not compensated, but time will be minimal, and the in-face meeting if held will also be able to be attended remotely if expenses are an issue. The projects are slated to run 30 months, and we are about 6 months into them already. âI suggested to the teams that you would be a good per- son to be on the User Group, as any technology coming out of this research would only be successful if persons such as yourself: a) believed it had sufficient value to meet your and/or your clientsâ needs, b) understood the market and existing technology well enough to recognize incremental advances, c) And are held in sufficient esteem by your peers to influ- ence the adoption of successful research. âThe SHRP2 project information can be found on this webpage, the specific projects for which we are soliciting a User Panel are under ârenewalâ: http://www.trb.org/Strategic Hig hwayResearchProg ram2SHRP2/Publ ic /Pages/ Renewal_Projects_303.aspxâ This solicitation resulted in the following members joining the User Panel: Bobby Nagel Cobb Fendley Houston, Texas Rick Conte Design Manager Parsons Brinckerhoff John L. Krause, Jr. State Surveyor Florida Department of Transportation Tallahassee, Florida The following solicitation was e-mailed to a group of candi- dates who had been identified by the R01B and R01C project teams as being end users of the technologies that were being developed by these projects. Solicitation for R01B and R01C User Panel Members âWe are putting together a Users Panel for several ongoing projects within the Strategic Highways Research Program (SHRP) [sic]. The original SHRP program, administered by the Transportation Research Board (TRB), identified multi- ple projects in the area of highway infrastructure renewal. The SHRP2 program is executing many of these projects. The attached presentation describes several projects in the area of infrastructure renewal. âThere are two particular projects which this User Panel would provide input on. The commonality of these projects is that they both address the interaction between road renewal and buried utility infrastructure. âR01-B is research into developing a multi-sensor geo- physical platform (e.g. combining GPR, EM, and seismic). This platform is intended to locate all utilities down to about 5 feet in a single pass. âR01-C is developing geophysical methods for the specific case of deep or stacked utilities. There will also be smart tag- ging of utilities for finding them later with a reader at the surface. âThe overall goal here is to develop better systems for map- ping buried utilities ahead of highway renewal projects, and other types of construction. âThe User Panel will have about 10 members consisting of persons likely be in a position to actually use the technology in the future. The R01-B and R01-C project teams would engage the User Panel in a dialogue and seek feedback on the perfor- mance goals of the projects. We anticipate several web meet- ings per year, and maybe one in-face meeting if desired. This A P P e n d i x C User Panel
55 James Mooney Project Engineer Consolidated Edison Company New York, New York Philip J. Meis Principal Engineer/Vice President Utility Mapping Services, Inc. David B. Hale Technology Assessment/Corporate Safety Officer So-Deep Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wayne Wilson Kiewit & Sons Southern California Office Mike Parilac Planet Underground Manteno, Illinois James E. Hodges Vice-President, Engineering Middle Tennessee Natural Gas Smithville, Tennessee
