Utility Engineering Podcast - The UEP

Welcome to UEP the Utility Engineering Podcast where we dig deep into all things utilities and subsurface engineering.

Your host is Paul Wehbe a leading utilities professional who really gets a kick out of solving complex engineering challenges and exploring the niche realm of digital twins.

Joined each episode by another expert in the utilites and subsurface engineering field we bring you insightful discussions ground breaking innovations and practical tips to navigate the ever evolving landscape of utilities.

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Episodes

Highways & Railways: Transport Utilities in a Changing America - with Steve Rienks

This episode features a great discussion with Steve Rienks, leading civil engineer and project manager for transportation, highway and railway projects in the American Midwest. We chat about the dangers of poor mapping and misclassifications, the progress towards better US standards, as well as some of the challenges caused by the elements in America, like preparing for freezing pipes or Californian wildfires. We also talk about the challenges that Australian Utilities Professionals face in comp...

Nov 15, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Oh, The Places You’ll Go (with a Career in Surveying) - with Peta Cox

In this episode, we’re joined by Peta Cox, who has been an absolute powerhouse in encouraging kids to get into STEM and careers in surveying. We talk about some of the amazing places you can go as a surveyor, like paddling up the Murrumbidgee River on a paddleboard with a sonar strapped to a milk crate and a stick, and how a career in surveying will give you that slightly different perspective on the world. We get to the serious stuff too, like the shortage of surveyors and what we need to build...

Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Mapping the Underworld: Bahrain, Britain and Beyond - with John Robinson

We talk with John Robinson, co-author of Britain’s PAS128, about the challenges of adapting technologies to the local environment in different parts of the world —whether that’s struggling to adapt radar to Bahrain where islands are man-made, battling with the ‘spaghetti’ underground infrastructure and Victorian-era pipework of Britain, or having to sink pipes a lot deeper to prevent freezing in Canada. We also talk about a terrifying near-miss of a fuel line at Heathrow some years back, and les...

Oct 03, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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