If you are using the Pipeline Assessment and Certification Program for the condition assessment of your pipelines, it’s important to be familiar with the PACP-certified software available to you, listed at www.nassco.org/certified-software.

One of the major benefits of PACP is the extremely wide availability of PACP-certified contractors, as well as PACP-certified software programs. An objective of maintaining standards pertaining to PACP is to allow the use of any PACP-certified software to collect data in the field, as long as the software used in the office is also PACP certified. This allows a contractor collecting data to use a PACP software program of his or her choice and enables that contractor to deliver the data in a standard export database file that can be imported into any PACP-certified software. 

All PACP-certified software must include the import/export utility.

Unfortunately, software vendors sometimes sell software as “PACP certified” without this import and export capability or wrongly sell this capability separately at additional cost. Without this capability, you are not only forced to use their software, but contractors you hire for CCTV inspections are forced to as well. This may restrict the number of contractors that will bid on your project and requires many CCTV contractors to purchase and use new software that is unfamiliar to them. Ultimately, this can cost a system owner more in the end. In order to protect your interests and continue to make PACP work for you, NASSCO is diligent in certifying software that meets these requirements. 

If the PACP-certified software you are using does not include import and export capability, you are within your rights to require your software vendor to provide it at no additional charge. You should also feel free to notify NASSCO, and we will take steps to make sure the vendor is meeting its obligation to provide PACP import and export capability to all of its customers. This capability is a requirement of PACP software certification, but unfortunately a vendor can potentially show NASSCO it meets that capability during certification, then turn around and sell that same software without both import and export capabilities. 

Your contracts should not require your PACP data to be delivered in a specific software format. 

This restricts your contractors and raises prices, which is not the intent of PACP. We would therefore ask you to make sure your software, and the software used by your contractors, is truly PACP certified so contractors can deliver the data in the PACP format that has been established by NASSCO, allowing us all to work together to set standards for the proper assessment, maintenance and rehabilitation of underground infrastructure. 

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Get the EDge - Training and Continuing Education Courses

June 3 - Calgary, Alberta

Includes: PACP, MACP, LACP

Trainer: Garret Harvey

250-223-8664 • garret@gevan.ca

June 3 - Raleigh, NC

Includes: MACP, LACP, PACP

Trainer: Paul Booth

704-681-3989 • woodsideenv@gmail.com

June 4 - Atlanta, GA

Includes: LACP, PACP, MACP

Trainer: Jerry Weimer

513-659-5008 • jerryweimerconsulting@gmail.com

June 4 - Pittsburgh, PA

Includes: PACP

Trainer: Michael Kerr

412-605-9000 • mikerr54@hotmail.com

June 4 - Twinsburg, OH

Includes: PACP, MACP, LACP

Trainer: Brandon Conley

248-349-0904 • pacp@dohenycompanies.com

June 10 - Marriottsville, MD

Includes: MACP, LACP, PACP

Trainer: Irvin Gemora

410-458-9591• irv.gemora@comcast.net

June 11 - Covington, GA

Includes: PACP, MACP, LACP

Trainer: John Jones

678-527-4212 • plumblineconsultant@gmail.com

June 11 -Denver, CO

Includes: LACP, PACP, MACP

Trainer: Paul Booth

704-681-3989 • woodsideenv@gmail.com

June 11 - Santa Rosa, CA

Includes: PACP, MACP, LACP

Trainer: Marilyn Shepard

916-899-8961 • mshepard1@hotmail.com

June 11 -Covington, GA

Includes: MACP, LACP, PACP

Trainer: John Jones

678-527-4212 • plumblineconsultant@gmail.com

June 11 - Indianapolis, IN

Includes: MACP, LACP, PACP

Trainer: Jerry Weimer

513-659-5008 • jerryweimerconsulting@gmail.com

June 11 - Bolton, Ontario

Includes: LACP, PACP, MACP

Trainer: Brandon Conley

248-349-0904 • pacp@dohenycompanies.com

June 17 - Glendale, AZ

Includes: LACP, PACP, MACP

Trainer: Marilyn Shepard

916-899-8961 • mshepard1@hotmail.com

June 17 - Port Coquitlam, British Columbia

Includes: PACP

Trainer: Garret Harvey

250-223-8664 • garret@gevan.ca

June 18 - Louisville, KY

Includes: ITCP - MANHOLE REHABILITATION

Trainer: Tim Back

513-253-8461• timbacktwo@gmail.com

June 18 - Romulus, MI

Includes: MACP, LACP, PACP

Trainer: Jerry Weimer

513-659-5008 • jerryweimerconsulting@gmail.com

June 18 - York Beach, ME

Includes: MACP, LACP, PACP

Trainer: Laurie Perkins

888-621-8156 • laurie.perkins@wright-pierce.com

June 18 - Antioch, CA

Includes: PACP, MACP, LACP

Trainer: Brandon Conley

248-349-0904• pacp@dohenycompanies.com

June 18 - Fort Smith, AR

Includes: ITCP - CIPP

Trainer: Gerry Muenchmeyer

252-626-9930 • gerry@muenchmeyerassoc.com

June 25 - Northville, MI

Includes: MACP, LACP, PACP

Trainer: Brandon Conley

248-349-0904 • pacp@dohenycompanies.com

July 9 - Las Vegas, NV

Includes: PACP, MACP, LACP

Trainer: Marilyn Shepard

916-899-8961 • mshepard1@hotmail.com