Dr. Brian Mergelas, Ph.D
President and CEO
the Pressure Pipe Inspection Company Ltd.
Dr. Brian Mergelas is the founding President and CEO of the Pressure Pipe Inspection Company. His commitment to advancing condition assessment solutions for the municipal water and wastewater, and industrial industries is well documented. In addition to publishing over 50 papers in academic and industry journals, he co-authored the America Water Works Association Research Foundation (AwwaRF) book “Electromagnetic Inspection of Prestressed Concrete Pressure Pipe.”
A visionary in the water industry, Dr. Mergelas believes that by using advanced pipeline assessment technologies to establish the condition of a water transmission network, operators can more effectively manage their critical assets. The infrastructure-funding gap as identified by EPA, AWWA, WERF and others can be overcome by using advanced technology to prioritize repair and rehabilitation and to extend the safe operating life of pipelines.
Professional Affiliations
- American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE):
- Vice Chair of the Pipeline Risk Management and Safety committee; Chair of sub committee TC-0201 on Regulatory Issues.
- Member of PAM (Pipeline Asset Management Committee) and Secretary of the Condition Assessment of Water Pipeline sub-committee.
- Past International Coordinator of Specialty Pipelines Conference (2008).
- American Water Works Association (AWWA):
- Member of AWWA Water Loss Committee.
- Observer member of AWWA Concrete Pipe Standards Committee.
- American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) member since 1990.
- National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) member since 1997.
- North American Society of Trenchless Technology (NASTT) member since 1997.
Published Books
Mergelas, B. and X. Kong. Electromagnetic Inspection of Prestressed Concrete Pressure Pipe. AWWA Research Foundation. Denver, CO, 2001.
B.J. Mergelas, Defect Interaction and Anomalous Source Models in Remote Field Eddy Current and Through Transmission Testing, Ph.D. Thesis, Queen's University, Jan. 1995.