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title: T&D Webinar | Deploying Trenchless Design in Today’s Utility Market
description: Trenchless installation of electrical transmission and distribution assets provides increased resiliency and reliability but requires a focus on implementation.
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## Next Generation (NxG) Webinar Series

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## Deploying Trenchless Design in Today’s Utility Market

*Wednesday, Sept. 14 | 2 p.m. Eastern*

The ongoing challenges utilities face include the need for increased resiliency and reliability on their system. As the trend of placing both transmission and distribution cables underground gains traction, the details and methods to successfully execute an effective and efficient conversion are continuously being explored. Join us as we hone in on a utility’s trenchless installations of its electrical assets and what considerations need to be addressed before implementing the design into the next project. This webinar will cover:

- Typical reasons for trenchless installations
- Design risk identification and management of risks
- Benefits and challenges of a trenchless design
- Innovation in today’s underground utility market

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### Frank Morrissey  | Burns & McDonnell

Frank Morrissey is managing director of the Underground & Submarine Cables business line at Burns & McDonnell. His experience includes transmission design ranging from 69- to 765-kV, as well as distribution design from 4.8- to 34-kV. He has experience in design, cost estimating, field construction supervision, project management, surveying and material procurement.

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### Kerby Primm, PE  | Burns & McDonnell

Kerby Primm is a project manager at Burns & McDonnell. He has spent over 17 years as an engineer involved in multiple specialties, including civil site design, transportation and trenchless design in the energy sector. He has spent the past eight years within the trenchless sector, implementing horizontal directional drilling (HDD), conventional bore and Direct Pipe technology on a multitude of crossings of levees, major water bodies and highways.

 

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