PDCA Q2 2014 by PileDriver

THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE PILE DRIVING CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION

Q2 2014 | Volume 11, No. 2

“A Driven Pile … Is a Tested Pile!”

PDCA Project of the Year Awards

Meet the 2014

WINNERS PDCA 18th Annual International Conference & Expo 2014 Wrap-up

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CONTENTS QUARTER 2 2014

ARTICLES Feature

Awards

102

The Economic Advantages of Dynamically Monitoring Driven Pile

A [dynamically monitored] driven pile is a tested pile

Special Events

PDCA 18th Annual International Conference & Expo 2014 Wrap-up

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Presidential Award for Distinguished Service Van E. Komurka, P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE

Professional Engineer’s Service Award Dale Biggers, P.E.

Committee Chair of the Year Award Pollyanna Cunningham

On the Cover: At the PDCA 18th Annual International Conference & Expo 2014, in St. Louis, Mo., PDCA recognized several industryleading companies with its prestigious Project of the Year Awards program. Read the spotlights for all of this year’s winning projects, starting on page 62.

Project of the Year Awards

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2014 Project of the Year Awards Overview

Land: $2 Million to $5 Million

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Marine: $2 Million to $5 Million

Land: Greater than $5 Million Cape Romain Contractors, Inc.

Cajun Deep Foundations, LLC

PND Engineers, Inc.

Land: $500,000 to $2 Million Glenn O. Hawbaker, Inc.

Land: Less than $500,000 Desert Deep Foundations, LLC

Cover photo: Courtesy of Cajun Deep Foundations, LLC TOC top photo: Courtesy of Glenn O. Hawbaker, Inc.

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108 Industry Information

95 97

2014 Coop Student and Summer Intern Announcement Pile Driving Terms and Definitions N through Z

116

116 120 126

Mason Construction, Ltd.

120

136

Texas Supreme Gives Win to Contractors on Issue of Insurance Coverage for Construction Defects

Bedford Technology GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.

Industry Young Guns

145 149

Ray Sciahetano

Member Profiles

Legal

108 112

130

Richard Goettle, Inc.

REGULAR SECTIONS

Vortex Marine Construction Inc.

Pre-bid Site Inspections in Claims and Changes

President’s Message

EIC Associates, Inc.

Joseph M. Champion

Ellis & Associates, Inc.

23 Did You Know?

11 Executive Director’s Message

25 New PDCA Members

15 2014-15 Board of Directors and Committee Chairs

31 PDCA Member News

41 PDCA Chapter News

PDCA Membership Benefits

19 PDCA Membership Application

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39 2014 PDCA Calendar of Events 152 Index to Advertisers

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By Mike Justason, President, Pile Driving Contractors Association

t is a great honor and privilege to assume the role of PDCA president. And yes, I am the first Canadian PDCA president. At our annual conference in St. Louis in April, someone joked (I think it was John King) that a slight modification to our slogan was needed... hence the title of this article! Firstly, I would like to thank our outgoing president, Mr. Rusty Signor. I can think of no better PDCA ambassador than Rusty. Due in large part to his association with PDCA, Rusty has breathed new life into the pile driving industry in Austin, Texas. Rusty’s hard work, dedication and his business success are proof that “You get out what you put in,” and Rusty has put a lot into the promotion of driven piles! Our organization was lucky to have Rusty as president, and I look forward to his continued influence as he assumes the position of immediate past president on our Executive Committee. Thank you, Rusty! It’s hard to imagine what might qualify someone to assume the role of PDCA president, so I should take a moment to explain my history. Back in 2007, PDCA president Mark Weisz and vice-president Van Hogan asked if I would take over as Education Committee chair. My respect for these two individuals made it impossible to refuse the position and thus began my PDCA adventure. I later joined the Board of Directors, then the Executive Committee, and the rest is history. I was first introduced to pile driving during my summer work as an engineering student in the late 1980s. I was working for a geotechnical consultant and materialstesting company called Jacques, Whitford, in my hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. I continued my studies and eventually completed a Bachelors’ and a Masters’ Degree in structural/geotechnical engineering. Little did I know that my career would soon immerse me in the world of pile driving! This May will mark my

19th year with Bermingham Foundation Solutions; I’ve worked closely with Patrick Bermingham, fourth generation owner of the company, which was founded in 1897. During my time with Bermingham, I have seen pile driving from a contractor’s perspective as well as an equipment manufacturer’s perspective (Bermingham does both). Through my work at Bermingham, I’ve travelled to 40 different countries and I’ve worked on projects on six continents. That all sounds glamorous but as most of us know, the real education in this industry comes from sitting under a load-test frame in the middle of the night, or turning wrenches on the hammer test-stand – and I’ve done more than my fair-share of both. I started attending PDCA events very shortly after the organization was created – in fact, I have a very clear memory of the very first DICEP event; I recall being impressed by the quality of the speakers. And if you have attended any of our recent events, I’m sure you would agree that PDCA’s tradition of excellent speakers has continued. If I think back over the last seven or eight years, PDCA membership has always advocated the promotion of driven piles to engineers – and to a great extent, the PDCA committees and the staff have really delivered. Our list of educational programs is second to none in the deep foundations industry. Some of these programs include: LRFD Design and Construction workshops; the Driven Pile Inspector’s course; Pile Load Testing Options course; the annual Design & Installation of Cost Efficient Piles seminar (DICEP); the Dynamic Testing & Analysis seminars; the Professors’ Driven Pile Institute; as well as annual joint-seminars with DFI and other industry-partner organizations, not to mention the PDCA Annual International Conference & Expo. When I look at this

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list of events, it is clear that we have really delivered on our commitment to educate the engineering community. PDCA has been doing a great job educating engineers and thereby providing an “indirect” benefit to our contractor members. PDCA’s future focus will be to provide programs and education that give a “direct” benefit to contractors. In January of this year, the Board of Directors met to discuss our strategic plan and we made a commitment to change. Several initiatives are already underway, including a Pile Driving Professionals Development Course intended for entry-level employees working for contractors and suppliers. The pilot for this course ran at our annual conference in St. Louis and was well received. We are also developing a Project Management for Pile Drivers course targeted at mid-to-senior level project managers. This course will have all the content of a professional project management course, but with a pile driving focus. We are also addressing the need for operator training and we will soon have a program in place to facilitate training for our contractor members. In short, we can be proud of

I am glad to lead this shift back towards a contactor focus. our efforts in promoting driven piles (and the engine that drives this effort will continue firing on all cylinders); however, over the next year, you will see PDCA giving something back by way of “direct” benefits to our contractor members who have supported our cause so faithfully. I am glad to lead this shift back towards a contactor focus; however, our work in educating engineers has established PDCA as an influential body in the industry as evidenced by our leadership in the latest revisions to the IBC – expertly lead by our Technical Committee chair, Mr. Dale Biggers. PDCA’s membership contains the highest concentration of pile driving experts in the world! I am confident there is no pile driving problem that can’t be solved by someone in our membership. Please use our online tool called “Ask PDCA.” Your question will be sent to various experts who are guaranteed to send an insightful reply. I also invite you

to explore our website to learn more about our member companies and their products and services. This message would not be complete without sending thanks to our friends in the public sector. We were fortunate to have Mr. Silas Nichols, Senior Bridge Engineer (Geotechnical) with the FHWA, as a keynote speaker at the PDCA 18th Annual International Conference & Expo 2014 this year along with a great presentation by Mr. Kevin McClain, Geotechnical Director for the Missouri DOT. Having these gentlemen as presenters confirms the influence of PDCA and reinforces the importance of driven piles for use on public infrastructure projects. Maintaining these strong relationships is of great importance to PDCA. Finally, I must thank Mr. Steve Hall and his staff at the PDCA HQ for all the support they have given to me personally, and I look forward to working with them over the next year. t

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That’s a Wrap! By Stevan A. Hall, Executive Director, Pile Driving Contractors Association

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he PDCA 18th Annual International Conference & Expo 2014 had a lot of activity combined into a three-day program. The PDCA staff arrived early at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch to finalize all of the conference planning and strategies that can only be completed once on site. I want to thank the PDCA staff members – Jessica Fasanella, Van Hogan and Stephanie Kerr – for their outstanding support and involvement throughout the entire conference planning, execution and wrap-up. This year’s annual conference had general sessions, exhibitors, social and networking opportunities and much more, but a lot of activities went on at the conference that were not necessarily on the conference schedule – and all of it was conducted to strengthen the PDCA position in the industry and enhance PDCA member services and benefits. Not so unusual to the conference were the Executive Committee and Board of Directors meeting; and also not unusual were two PDCA guests, Silas Nichols and Heather Shelsta from FHWA. You may recall Silas Nichols received the Professional Engineers Service Award in 2013 at the PDCA conference in Orlando, Fla. But what makes Silas and Heather’s attendance important to PDCA was their update on FHWA issues and initiatives to the Executive Committee and Board of Directors that involve PDCA and our members. Silas reported to the PDCA Officers and Directors that FHWA awarded Geotechnical Circular #9 (to a PDCA member), which deals with lateral loads on all deep foundation elements, especially piles. The project is in its early stages of development, but will eventually be presented to PDCA for peer review. FHWA has also rewritten the RFP to rewrite/revise the Driven Pile Manual. The process to complete the project will take approximately 16 months with an award of the contract expected in early May 2014. PDCA will likely see the draft five to six months later for review and comment. A research effort and RFP has been developed to evaluate large diameter driven pile (over 30 inches). The project will focus on the pile’s bearing resistance, formation of plugging and related investigations. Silas requested PDCA aid in the development and delivery of FHWA’s next “reality video” – a webbased conference for state DOT, featuring a virtual equipment show outlining our industry’s specialized equipment, their unique applications and capabilities. The webinar will be presented in conjunction with IFCEE 2015, March 2015 in San Antonio, Texas. Participating vendors will be

asked to provide equipment specifications and assist in the development of the program. Vendor participation information can be obtained by contacting the PDCA office at 888-311-PDCA (7322), or at 904-215-4771 for those outside of the U.S. The FHWA, specifically Silas, has been diligent about establishing and maintaining a very positive working relationship with PDCA. It is important for PDCA members to respond aggressively when requests for support and information are presented to us by FHWA. This is one of the best ways to ensure a continued working relationship with FHWA and protect our market within the public sector. PDCA also met with Graham Brent, executive director of the National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO, or sometimes known as CCO). The purpose of meeting with Graham was to confirm PDCA’s commitment in developing a “Dedicated Pile Driving Rig Operators” certification program. PDCA began meeting with NCCCO in November 2013 to discuss the certification program. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed during the PDCA Annual Tactical Meeting in New Orleans, La. in January 2014. PDCA met again with NCCCO in February 2014 to indicate full support of the conditions contained within the MOU. During our meeting in St. Louis, Graham outlined three different ways in which PDCA and NCCCO could move forward with the development of the certification process. Since that meeting in St. Louis, the NCCCO Commission met the week of April 14th and their response to the PDCA/NCCCO initiative was very positive, according to Graham. In fact, the Commission is interested in discussing additional certification programs with PDCA. PDCA will have selected one of the three proposals submitted by NCCCO that fits best with our capabilities and agenda by the time you read this message. As a pre-conference short course, PDCA rolled out its newest program, the “Pile Driving Professionals Development” course. The course was presented on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, to an energetic group of 12 pile drivers and material suppliers. At the completion of the course, all “students” received a Certificate of Completion.

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PDCA wishes to thank Pat Hannigan and Buck Darling, two PDCA members who devoted hours to the course development and presentation. PDCA plans to offer this course on a consistent basis and believes it will be an ideal program for PDCA chapters to present in their geographical areas. At the committee meetings segment of the annual conference, PDCA chapters met as a formal group for the second time – the first meeting occurred in Orlando, Fla. in 2013. Discussions around the table were very beneficial and insightful. There is no doubt that PDCA chapters contribute greatly to PDCA and our collective efforts to support and strengthen our industry. It was also evident in the meeting that better communications between national PDCA and PDCA chapters will produce stronger chapters and strengthens national PDCA. As a result, PDCA formed the PDCA Chapters Committee, which is responsible for providing an exchange of information between chapters and national PDCA. The new committee is designed to enhance opportunities to create growth, strength and collaboration in advancing PDCA at the chapter and national levels. Another idea was tossed around during the conference that would be unique to PDCA and its “standard” annual scheduling. In

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2015, PDCA will be a partner in the organization and implementation of the International Foundation Congress and Equipment Expo 2015 (IFCEE 2015). IFCEE 2015 will be the biggest conference and equipment expo dedicated to the foundation industry in the United States. In 2015, as was the case in 2006, this March conference replaced the PDCA annual conference. In 2015, the PDCA will not schedule an annual conference, but is considering a summer conference. The idea would be to have a shortened, family-oriented program. A proposal for this program has been submitted to the Executive Committee and Board of Directors for consideration. If approved, the first PDCA Summer Conference will be held in the northeast, with the PDCA Market Development Committee proposing Buffalo, N.Y. in June/July. PDCA wants to thank all of our members and guests who helped make this year’s annual conference a success. The support of our members who attended the conference, the exhibitors who displayed their services and products, the sponsors who contributed financially, the presenters at the general sessions and the guest and keynote speakers were all instrumental in making this year’s conference a success. Thanks, all of you! t

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2014-15 PDCA Officers, Directors, Committee Chairs & Members OFFICERS

Mike Justason PDCA President Bermingham Foundation Solutions 600 Ferguson Ave. N. Wellington Street Marine Terminal Hamilton, ON L8L 4Z9 Canada Phone: 905-536-7110 Fax: 905-528-6187 mjustason@berminghammer.com Eric Alberghini PDCA Vice President Norwalk Marine Contractors, Inc. 245 Access Rd. Stratford, CT 06615 Phone: 203-866-3344 Fax: 203-853-0342 alberghini@norwalkmarine.net Rusty Signor PDCA Immediate Past President TX Pile, LLC 18418 Hamilton Pool Rd. Austin, TX 78738 Phone: 512-261-8300 Fax: 512-264-8301 rusty@txpile.com Doug Keller PDCA Secretary Richard Goettle, Inc. 12071 Hamilton Ave. Cincinnatti, OH 45231 Phone: 513-825-8100 Fax: 513-825-8107 dkeller@goettle.com Bill Marczewski PDCA Treasurer BSM Consulting Engineers, Inc. P.O. Box 502 Astoria, OR 97103 Phone: 503-325-8065 Fax: 503-325-0861 bill@bsmengineering.com Stevan A. Hall PDCA Executive Director PDCA P.O. Box 66208 Orange Park, FL 32065 or 1857 Wells Rd., Suite 6 Orange Park, FL 32073 Phone: 888-311-PDCA (7322) Fax: 904-215-2977 steve@piledrivers.org

DIRECTORS

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Larry Moore Clark Foundations, LLC 7500 Old Georgetown Rd. Bethesda, MD 20814 Phone: 301-272-8381 Fax: 301-272-1915 larry.moore@clarkconstruction.com

Craig Olson – Northeast Chapter Co-Chair TRC Engineering, Inc. 16000 Commerce Pkwy., Suite B Mount Laurel, NJ 08054 Phone: 856-273-1224 Fax: 856-271-9244 colson@trcsolutions.com

Mike Moran Cajun Deep Foundations, LLC P.O. Box 104 Baton Rouge, LA 70821 Phone: 800-944-5857 or 225-753-5857 Fax: 225-751-9777 mikem@cajunusa.com

Pollyanna Cunningham ICE – International Construction Equipment, Inc. 301 Warehouse Dr. Matthews, NC 28104 Phone: 888-ICE-USA1 (423-8721) or 704-821-8200 Fax: 704-821-8201 or 704-821-2781 pcunningham@iceusa.com Sonny DuPre Cape Romain Contractors, Inc. 612 Cape Romain Rd. Wando, SC 29492 Phone: 843-884-5167 Fax: 843-884-0516 sonny@caperomaincontractors.com Dave Graff Stroer & Graff, Inc. 1830 Phillips Ln. Antioch, CA 94509 Phone: 925-778-0200 Fax: 925-778-6766 grffd@stroerandgraff.com Frank Rausche Pile Dynamics, Inc. 30725 Aurora Rd. Cleveland, OH 44139 Phone: 216-831-6131 Fax: 216-831-0916 frausche@pile.com Kevin Shannon Linde-Griffith Construction Company 152 Passaic St. Newark, NJ 07104 Phone: 973-481-1106 Fax: 973-481-0755 kevin@linde-griffith.com

Bryan Klibert – Gulf Coast Chapter Coastal Bridge Company, LLC 4825 Jamestown Ave. Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-766-0244 Fax: 225-766-0423 klibertb@coastalbridge.com

Herb Engler – Northeast Chapter Co-Chair Penn State Fabricators 810 Humbolt St. Brooklyn, NY 11222 Phone: 718-716-8814 pennstate.fab@verizon.net Dermot Fallon – Pacific Coast Chapter Foundation Constructors P.O. Box 97 81 Big Break Rd. Oakley, CA 94561 Phone: 925-754-6633 Fax: 925-625-5783 dfallon@foundationpile.com Tim Dittmeier – Florida Chapter Hammer & Steel, Inc. 4469 CR209 South Green Cove Springs, FL 32043 Phone: 904-284-6800 tdittmeier@hammersteel.com Scott Nigels – South Carolina Chapter Palmetto Pile Driving, Inc. P.O. Box 70986 Charleston, SC 29415 Phone: 843-577-0545 Fax: 843-577-0547 scott@palmettopiledriving.com Rusty Signor – Texas Chapter TX Pile, LLC 18418 Hamilton Pool Rd. Austin, TX 78738 Phone: 512-261-8300 Fax: 512-264-8301 rusty@txpile.com

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PDCA COMMITTEE CHAIRS & MEMBERS PDCA Chapters Committee (New) Rusty Signor, Chair 18418 Hamilton Pool Rd. Austin, TX 78738 Phone: 512-261-8300 rusty@txpile.com Members: Bryan Klibert, Craig Olson, Dermot Fallon, Herb Engler, Marty Corcoran, Mike Carter, Scott Nigels, Tim Dittmeier

Finance Committee Bill Marczewski, Chair P.O. Box 502 Astoria, OR 97103 Phone: 503-325-8065 bill@bsmengineering.com Members: Mike Justason, Stevan A. Hall, Buck Darling, Randy Dietel, Wayne Waters, Rusty Signor, Eric Alberghini, Doug Keller, Tom Hallquest (Advisor)

Market Development Committee Phil Wright, Chair Communications Committee 130 Satellite Blvd. N.E., Suite A Suwanee, GA 30024 Pollyanna Cunningham, Chair Phone: 678-714-6730 301 Warehouse Dr. Matthews, NC 28104 Members: Dan Winters, TC Phone: 888-ICE-USA1 Heller, Mike Elliot, Rusty Signor, (423-8721) or 704-821-8200 Steve Macon, Brian Rogers pcunningham@iceusa.com Membership Committee Members: Don Surrency, Dan John King, Chair Winters, Eric Hendriksen, 4530 Hwy. 162 Mike Kelly, Garland Likins, Jeff Hollywood, SC 29449 Bikshorn, Bryan Klibert, Craig Phone: 843-763-7736 Olson, Dermot Fallon, Herb kingpiledrive@aol.com Engler, Marty Corcoran, Scott Nigels, Randy Kelly, Jill Harris, Members: Bill Marczewski, Sean Davis Buck Darling, Dave Graff, Dave Chapman, Doug Keller, Eric Education Committee Alberghini, Frank Rausche, Kevin Dave Chapman, Chair Shannon, Marilyn Poindexter, 200 N. Branford Rd. Mark Weisz, Marty Corcoran, Branford, CT 06405 Mike Justason, Mike Moran, Phone: 203-483-2947 Pollyanna Cunningham, Rusty dchapman@bac-inc.com Signor, Sonny DuPre, Trey Ford, Larry Moore, Randy Dietel Members: Mike Justason, Pat (Alternate), Harry Robbins Hannigan, Andrew Verity, Bill (Alternate) Spatz, Eric Hendriksen, David Sweetin, Mark Openshaw, Technical Committee Garland Likins, Gerald Verbeek, Dale Biggers, Chair Rusty Signor, TC Heller, Doug P.O. Drawer 53266 Ford, Marilyn Poindexter, New Orleans, LA 70153 Mohomad Hussein, Alex Filotti, Phone: 504-821-2400 Alex Ryberg, Malay Ghose Hajra, dbiggers@bohbros.com Richard Morales, Rusty Signor Members: Anna Sellountou, Safety and Environmental Casey Jones, Dave Chapman, Eric Committee Hendriksen, Randy Dietel, Mike Rusty Signor, Chair Kelly, Andrew Verity, Garland 18418 Hamilton Pool Rd. Likins, Marvin Phillips, Gerald Austin, TX 78738 Verbeek, Van Komurka, Billy Phone: 512-261-8300 Camp, Mike Justason, Michael rusty@txpile.com Wysockey, Don Robertson t Members: Bo Collier, Dave Coleman, Dermot Fallon, Erich Kramer, Joe Klaas, Kevin Shannon, Matt Houston, Mike Moran, Stephen Heilker, Buck Darling, Eric Hendriksen, Mark Miller, Michael Morgano, Warren Waite

The Pile Driving Contractors Association & You Governance, Board of Directors, Committees and Chapters PDCA Governance, Committees and Chapters The PDCA’s direction, growth and success is a direct result of an involved membership. The association is directed by a dedicated Executive Committee and Board of Directors, who establish PDCA’s short and long-term goals and objectives through a comprehensive Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan is reviewed and revised each year by the Executive Committee and Board of Directors during the Annual Tactical Meeting. Implementation of the Strategic Plan Focus and Strategies is a team effort between the Board of Directors, Committees and staff. Governance Executive Committee: The Executive Committee consists of the Association’s Officers, including the President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Immediate Past President. The Executive Director serves on the Executive Committee in an Ex-Officio, non-voting capacity. Board of Directors: The Board of Directors consists of the Association’s Officers and nine elected member Directors. Directors can be Contractor, Associate and Engineering Affiliate members. Committees PDCA Committees include the following, as well as the function they perform: Education: Responsible for the development of all educational programs, including annual conference general sessions, seminars and workshops. Responsible for development and maintenance of relations with educational institutions. Responsible for promoting driven pile research and technical papers and the presentation of such information at appropriate venues. Follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/PDCAorg

Technical: Responsible for technical information and applications impacting the driven pile and deep foundations industry. Responsible for developing and maintaining relations with public and private entities involved in issues impacting driven pile or deep foundations. Responsible for developing and maintaining PDCA-produced design and installation specification documents. Communications: Responsible for establishing editorial guidelines, acquisition, assembly and review of all editorial content of PileDriver magazine, annual directory and calendar. Responsible for the functionality of the PDCA website and distribution of the PDCA E-Letter. Membership: Responsible for membership development and member retention and issues impacting the continued growth of the association. Market Development: Responsible for promoting the different pile types and monitoring trends in the market. Responsible for site selection of the annual conference sites, assembly of social programs for the annual conference and promotion of conferences. Safety and Environmental: Responsible for the dissemination of information relevant to safe work practices and for monitoring and reviewing regulations and legislation impacting the driven pile industry. Responsible for monitoring environmental issues related to the driven pile industry. PDCA Chapters: Responsible for providing an exchange of information between chapters and national PDCA. Designed to enhance opportunities to create growth, strength and collaboration in advancing PDCA at the chapter and national levels. PDCA members are encouraged to participate on one or more committees. Participation is voluntary, but committee members are encouraged to participate on a consistent basis. Those members desiring to serve the Become our fan on Facebook www.j.mp/PDCAonFaceBook

association at the Executive Committee and/or Board of Director levels are offered the opportunity as existing members rotate off. PDCA Chapters The PDCA encourages the formation of local PDCA Chapters. Local chapters provide regional representation and advocacy for the driven pile industry and those companies doing business within the chapter’s jurisdiction. Chapters also provide an opportunity for its members to network through business meetings, educational programs and social activities. Current PDCA Chapters include Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, South Carolina, Florida, Gulf Coast, Pacific Coast and Texas. Education and Networking PDCA Education: Conferences, Seminars and Workshops The PDCA offers relevant, topical and cutting-edge educational programs throughout the year. Annual Conference: The PDCA Annual Conference is held each year, generally in April. This internationally-recognized conference provides a forum for experts from industry, private business, government and academia to discuss key trends and issues within the driven pile industry with those who rely on information and technology to improve their business. Design and Installation of CostEfficient Piles (DICEP): Held each fall since 2000, this exclusive PDCA program presents modern approaches to maximize Efficiency, Effectiveness and Economy (E3) of driven piles through a series of engineering focused presentations. DICEP is designed primarily for geotechnical, structural and civil engineers, but presents relFollow us on LinkedIn www.j.mp/PDCAonLinkedIn

evant information for contractors and other firms or individuals who support, conduct business or are associated with the deep foundations, earth retention and/or the driven pile industry. Professors’ Driven Pile Institute (PDPI): This intensive week-long program is designed to instruct engineering educators in all aspects of driven pile installation, design and quality control. This program blends practical, real world construction knowledge with academics. The PDPI has been attended by more than 150 university and college representatives who teach driven pile applications in an academic environment. The program is held at Utah State University every other year and is funded 100 percent by the PDCA and its members. Deep Foundation Dynamic Testing and Analysis: The PDCA, in collaboration with Pile Dynamics, Inc. conducts several Deep Foundation Dynamic Testing and Analysis seminars and workshops annually. Each seminar or workshop generally includes information on deep foundation integrity testing, wave equation analysis, high strain dynamic foundation testing. This course is designed primarily for individuals involved in the design, construction and specification of deep foundations; as well as foundation testing professionals, professors and students already familiar with the basic concepts of deep foundation dynamic testing and analysis. The PDCA also provides the Dynamic Measurement and Analysis Proficiency Test designed to reflect the user’s level of knowledge and ability, which is then indicated in a “Certificate of Proficiency.” Individuals who qualify to support dynamic measurement and analysis testing are listed on the PDCA website as a reference for end-users. Pile Driving Inspectors Course: This one-day course is designed for those who inspect pile-driving operations during construction of foundations and major structures. The course presents information on the inspector’s role, hammers and installation equipment, pile types, contractor’s submittal and review process, establishing PD criteria, record-keeping and monitoring and common problems. This program is supplemented by state DOT personnel and their local practices in the state in which the program is offered. Pile Load Testing Options: This oneFollow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/PDCAorg

day course discusses the benefits of a well thought out, quality load test program to provide an overall economic advantage and provide data to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of a pile load test schedule. The seminar concludes with presentations by manufacturers of the various dynamic and static pile load testing options available in today’s industry. Driven Pile Load Resistant Factor Design (LRFD) Design and Construction Workshop: The application of the Load Resistant Factor Design (LRFD) platform is now required for use by bridge and structure designers using federal funding. This policy requirement applies to all surface transportation features including bridges, tunnels, earth retaining structures and miscellaneous ancillary structural features. The goal of this workshop is to improve and enhance the competiveness of driven piles by communicating and demonstrating the correct and appropriate application of the current (5th Edition) AASHTO LRFD design and construction specifications for structural and geotechnical limit states. Joint seminars and cooperative support: PDCA works with other organizations such as the Edmonton Geotechnical Society, the Calgary Geotechnical Society, the GeoInstitute of American Society of Civil Engineers, DFI and ADSC. Communications, Business Networking and Client Development Communications PileDriver Magazine: Produced on a quarterly basis and distributed to over 3,000 subscribers, PileDriver provides current industry trends, information about upcoming events, the latest in technology, case histories and legal topics relevant to the pile driving industry. The magazine also features PDCA member profiles and project spotlights. PileDriver has become the premier publication for the deep foundation industry. PDCA encourages article submissions, always at no cost to the author. www.piledrivers.org: The PDCA website is an expansive resource to anyone seeking information about the PDCA, PDCA members or the pile driving industry in general. The site includes information on the benefits of driven pile, membership, advertising, leadership and commitBecome our fan on Facebook www.j.mp/PDCAonFaceBook

tees, chapters, events, publications, gallery, reference links, news and the PDCA Store. Visitors to the site can search for member companies or services and products by State or Region; visitors can also download data on Noise and Vibration and the PDCA Installation Specification for Driven Pile (PDCA Specification 103-07 – Private Work). E-Letter: The PDCA distributes an electronic newsletter on a monthly basis. The E-Letter is designed to keep you up-to-date on all PDCA upcoming activities and events. It also includes a “Members On the Move” section that reports “press release” type information on PDCA member companies. Membership Directory: Produced annually, the Membership Directory provides a listing of all PDCA member companies, including the company name, main and optional employee contacts, address, phone, fax, email, website and a description of work performed by the company. Companies can also elect to have their logos included with their company information. Calendar: Produced annually and distributed in November with pages from December to December, the calendar lists all upcoming PDCA activities that have been scheduled at the time of printing. Business Networking and Client Development Membership in the PDCA offers numerous opportunities to conduct business networking and client development at every conference, educational program, committee meeting and social function with individuals who share a common interest – pile driving and the pile driving industry. Networking opportunities exist not only between PDCA member-to-member, but also relationships developed between PDCA and public agencies, such as FHWA, AASHTO, Corps of Engineers and State DOTs. The PDCA also maintains liaisons with other industry associations, working with them on issues of mutual concern. Whether it is member-to-member or member-to-guest, through conferences, educational programs or committee participation, the opportunity to develop new client relationships is ever-present. The chance to strengthen relationships with old clients or just re-connect with old friends is also part of the PDCA experience. t Follow us on LinkedIn www.j.mp/PDCAonLinkedIn

THE PILE DRIVING CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION

2014 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Step 1: Company Information

Company Name:________________________________________________________________________________________ Contact Name:_________________________________________________________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ City:________________________________________________________ State / Province: ____________________________ Zip / Postal Code: _____________________________________________ Country: __________________________________ Phone: ______________________________________________________ Fax:______________________________________ Company Website: _____________________________________________ Contact Email: _____________________________ Step 2: Select Membership Type - Check the box that corresponds to your “Membership Type”. Contractor Member – General or Specialty contractor who commonly installs driven piles for foundations and earth retentions systems. ❏ Contractor I Member Company – Annual volume > $ 2 million ❏ Contractor II Member Company – Annual volume < $ 2 million

$850.00 $425.00

Associate Member – Firms engaged in the manufacture and/or supply of equipment, materials, or services to PDCA members or the pile driving industry in general. ❏ Associate I Member Company – Annual volume > $ 2 million $850.00 ❏ Associate II Member Company – Annual volume < $ 2 million $425.00 ❏ Local Associate Member Company – $100.00 Small Company desiring membership in a single local chapter. A firm that only serves the chapter’s geographical area and whose interest is to support the local chapter. Membership must be approved by the PDCA Executive Committee Engineering Affiliate – Any Engineering company or individual (Structural, Geotechnical, Civil, etc.) involved in the design, consulting, or other engineering aspect associated with driven piles, deep foundations or earth retention systems. ❏ ❏ ❏

Engineering Affiliate – 1-5 Offices or an Individual Engineering Affiliates may list up to 5 individuals per office at no additional charge. Engineering Affiliate – 6-11 Offices Engineering Affiliates may list up to 5 individuals per office at no additional charge. Engineering Affiliate – 12+ Offices Engineering Affiliates may list up to 5 individuals per office at no additional charge.

Individual Member – $50.00 Any individual employed full-time by an university or college and teaching Undergraduate or Graduate courses in engineering; or an individual employed full-time by a Government entity. Retired Industry Member – $50.00 Any retired individual who has left active employment and wishes to remain a member. This is a non-voting membership category. Student Member – $20.00 Full-time student enrolled in a Bachelor, Master or Doctoral degree program in construction or engineering at an university or college. Affiliate Labor Organization Member – $100.00 Concerned with pile driving for the purpose of gathering and sharing information. This is a non-voting membership category. Must be approved by the PDCA Executive Committee. Perforated for easy removal.

$100.00 $90.00 $80.00

Step 3: Membership Options ❏ Professors’ Driven Pile Institute Contribution – $200.00 Through the PDPI (Professors' Driven Pile Institute), the PDCA provides the nation's leading engineering professors with the expertise to teach engineering students about driven pile advantages. Without question, this program is the standard by which all "teach the teacher" programs are judged and is the best way to ensure the continued progress and strength of our industry for the coming years. The PDCA funds virtually all expenses for the professors, which means a program such as the PDPI is expensive to conduct, but worth every dollar invested. This is a WIN/WIN program. 100% of your contribution goes to help fund this important industry program. ❏ Optional Employee/Office: Associate & Contractor Members Only (Per Office/Employee Listing) – $100.00 All optional employees/offices receive all of the benefits and services provided to the main contact, including a listing in the annual directory and website. ❏ Premium Upgrade – $225.00 Your Company Logo and Website linked from your PDCA website Company Profile listing. ❏ Company Logo on Website Profile – $25.00

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Step 4: Member Information – (Check only the services/products under the Membership type for which you are applying.) Contractor Members – check all services that your company provides: ❒ Bridge Buildings ❒ Docks and Wharves ❒ Bulkheads ❒ Earth Retention ❒ Deep Dynamic Compaction ❒ General Contracting ❒ Deep Excavation ❒ Highway and Heavy Civil Associate Members – check all products and/or services that your company provides: ❒ Air Compressors & Pumps ❒ Hydraulic Power Packs ❒ Coatings & Chemicals ❒ Leads & Spotters ❒ Consulting ❒ Lubricants & Grease ❒ Cushions, Hammer ❒ Marine Drayage ❒ Cushions, Pile ❒ Marine Equipment ❒ Cutter Heads & Drill Bits ❒ Materials Testing ❒ Design ❒ Other Structural Materials ❒ Dock & Marine Supplies ❒ Pile Hammers ❒ Drilling Equipment & Supplies ❒ Pile Monitoring ❒ Drive Caps & Inserts ❒ Pile Points & Splices ❒ Equipment Rental ❒ Piles, Composite ❒ Equipment Sales ❒ Piles, Concrete ❒ Freight Brokerage ❒ Piles, Steel H List ❒ Hoses & Fittings ❒ Piles, Steel Pipe Engineering Affiliate – check all products and/or services that your company provides: ❒ Analysis ❒ Geotechnical ❒ Civil ❒ Surveys ❒ Consulting ❒ Structural

❒ Marine ❒ Pile Driving ❒ List Other Services:

❒ Piles, Synthetic Material ❒ Piles, Timber ❒ Rigging Supplies ❒ Safety Equipment ❒ Sheet Piles, Aluminum ❒ Sheet Piles, Steel ❒ Sheet Piles, Vinyl ❒ Structural Steel ❒ Surveying ❒ Testing ❒ Trucking ❒ Vibration Monitoring ❒ Other Services:

❒ List Other Services:

Step 5: Geographic Areas Where Services and Products Are Available – (Check all that apply)

❒ All States ❒ AK ❒ DE ❒ FL ❒ KY ❒ LA ❒ MT ❒ NC ❒ OH ❒ OK ❒ UT ❒ VA ❒ South America

❒ AL ❒ GA ❒ MA ❒ ND ❒ OR ❒ VT ❒ Europe

❒ AR ❒ HI ❒ MD ❒ NE ❒ PA ❒ WA ❒ Asia

❒ AZ ❒ IA ❒ ME ❒ NH ❒ RI ❒ WI ❒ Other

❒ CA ❒ ID ❒ MI ❒ NJ ❒ SC ❒ WV

❒ CO ❒ IL ❒ MN ❒ NM ❒ SD ❒ WY

❒ CT ❒ IN ❒ MO ❒ NV ❒ TN ❒ Canada

❒ DC ❒ KS ❒ MS ❒ NY ❒ TX ❒ Mexico

Step 6: Payment Step 6: Payment Membership Type $____________________ Membership Type $____________________ PDPI Contribution $____________________ PDPI Contribution $____________________ Optional Employee/Office $____________________ Optional Employee/Office $____________________ Membership Upgrades $____________________ Membership Upgrades $____________________ TOTAL: $____________________ TOTAL: $____________________ Type of Payment Type of Payment I am making payment in full by: ❒ Check ❒ Visa ❒ MasterCard ❒ American Express ❒ Discover I am making payment in full by: ❒ Check ❒ Visa ❒ MasterCard ❒ American Express ❒ Discover Card Number:____________________________________________________________ Expiration Date:_________________ Card Number:____________________________________________________________ Expiration Date:_________________ Name on Card:____________________________________________________________ CVV Code:____________________ Name on Card:____________________________________________________________ CVV Code:____________________ Statement Billing Address: _________________________________________________________________________________ Statement Billing Address: _________________________________________________________________________________ Signature: _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Signature: _____________________________________________________________________________________________

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did you know?

Did You Know? PDCA Installation Specification for Driven Pile – PDCA Specification 103-07

PDCA members have free access to important industry resources PDCA freely grants and encourages the unrestricted use and distribution of this copyrighted material provided the PDCA is referenced. To access this material, go to www.piledrivers.org, hover your cursor over “Publications” on the left-hand side, and click on “General Publications.” Installation Specifications for Driven Pile is at the top of the general publications list; click to access the PDF. t

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t has been some time since PDCA referenced a very important document that has been available on the PDCA website, www.piledrivers.org, for downloading. The document is the PDCA Installation Specification for Driven Pile – PDCA Specification 103-07 and it has been available since August 2007. The PDCA Technical Committee developed this installation specification while working with AASHTO’s T-15 Committee to revise their Driven Pile Installation Specification. The available PDCA Installation Specification is the AASHTO model modified for private work. This PDCA document contains specification information on the following: Section 1: Introduction Section 2: Materials •• Steel Piles •• Timber Piles •• Prestressed Concrete Piles Section 3: Protective Coatings Section 4: Driving Piles •• Pile Driving Equipment •• Predrilling •• Preparation for Driving •• Driving •• Determination of Ultimate Pile Capacity •• Splicing of Pile •• Defective Piles •• Pile Cut-Off •• Measurement and Payment

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New PDCA Members The following is a complete list of all members who have recently joined PDCA or who have added company employees or offices through the contractor or associate employee membership option listing*. The association welcomes everyone on the list! Contractors Britton Bridge, LLC Jerry Britton 2836 John Deere Dr. Knoxville, TN 37917 Phone: 865-595-0363 Fax: 865-595-0365

J.E. McAmis Scott Vandegrift 621 Country Dr. Chico, CA 95928 Phone: 530-891-5061 Fax: 530-891-0904 www.jemcamis.com

McHugh Enterprises Steve Wiley 1737 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60616 Phone: 312-821-0325 Fax: 312-431-8518 www.mchughconstruction.com

EIC Associates, Inc. Leo Pflug 140 Mountain Ave., Suite 303 Springfield, NJ 07081 Phone: 973-315-0200 Fax: 973-315-0218 www.eicassociates.com

JCF Bridge & Concrete, Inc. Patrick Henney 1300B Gatlin Creek Rd. E. Driftwood, TX 78619 Phone: 281-733-4187 Fax: 281-966-1568 www.jcf-bridge.com

Next Foundations, LLC Cam Gruber 102 Racey Ridge Dr. Winchester, VA 22602 Phone: 540-535-5919 Fax: 540-535-5919 www.nextfoundations.com

Fenton Rigging and Contracting, Inc. Bryan Erickson 2150 Langdon Farm Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-631-5500 Fax: 513-738-1279 www.fenton1898.com

JM.Kelc Marine Contractors Corp. Louis Pasciuto 3041 Ave. U Brooklyn, NY 11229 Phone: 718-614-9768 Fax: 718-614-9768 www.jmkelc.com

Orion Marine Construction, Inc. Cory Butz 5440 W. Tyson Ave. Tampa, FL 33611 Phone: 813-839-8441 Fax: 813-831-7498 www.orionmarinegroup.com

Ferreira Construction Co., Inc. Casey Cass 100 S.E. Salerno Rd. Stuart, FL 34997 Phone: 772-286-5123 Fax: 772-286-5139 www.ferreiraconstruction.com

Steven Zurhiede Phone: 845-637-7619

Pomerleau, Inc. Eric Carbonneau 500 Rue Saint-Jacques, 11th Floor Montreal, QC H2Y 0A2 Canada Phone: 514-789-2728 Fax: 514-789-2288 www.pomerleau.ca

Florida Foundation Corp. Charles De La Rosa 9143 N.W. 146 Terrace Miami, FL 33018 Phone: 786-285-1395 Fax: 786-621-5805 www.flfoundations.com Group Contractors, LLC Shane Kirkpatrick 15055 Jefferson Hwy. Baton Rouge, LA 70817 Phone: 225-752-2500 Fax: 225-752-2552 www.groupcontractors.com

Massman Construction Co. Steve Macon 8901 State Line Rd., Suite 240 P.O. Box 8458 Kansas City, MO 64114 Phone: 816-523-1000 Fax: 816-333-2109 www.massman.net Steve Hayes Phone: 816-523-1000 Fax: 816-333-2109 Maritime Construction & Engineering, LLC Shawn M. Toohey 49 Pine Hill Rd. Cape Neddick, ME 03902 Phone: 207-525-4925 Fax: 207-221-1001 www.maritimece.com

Russell Marine LLC Robert Andrews 16828 Market St. Channelview, TX 77530 Phone: 281-860-0011 Fax: 281-860-0118 www.russellmarinellc.com Shinn & Gregory, Inc. Eldon Gregory P.O. Box 344 Stephinville, TX 76401 Phone: 254-965-7585 Fax: 254-965-7053

* For more information on the employee membership option listing, contact PDCA.

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Surespan Construction Ltd. Donovan Ducharme 301-38 Fell Ave. North Vancouver, BC V7P 3S2 Canada Phone: 604-998-1133 Fax: 604-998-1132 www.surespan.com Associates American Piledriving Equipment Inc. Steve Cress 2985 Loomis Rd. Stockton, CA 95205 Phone: 209-942-2166 Fax: 209-942-2455 www.apevibro.com Jimmy Deemer 500 Newtown Rd., #200 Virginia Beach, VA 23462 Phone: 757-518-9740 Fax: 757-518-9741 Ed Corbett 50 Gerber Industrial Dr. St. Peters, MO 63376 Phone: 636-397-8400 Fax: 636-278-4278 Jim Casavant 1345 Industrial Park Rd. Mulberry, FL 33860 Phone: 863-324-0378 Fax: 863-318-9409 Paul Kuzik 401 Hartle St. Sayreville, NJ 08872 Phone: 732-432-6604 Fax: 732-432-6608 American Pole and Timber Eric Lincoln 12317 Almeda Rd. Houston, TX 77045 Phone: 713-434-8008 www.americanpoleandtimber.com Bedford Technology Lynn Osmera 2424 Armour Rd. Worthington, MN 56187 Phone: 507-372-5558 Fax: 507-372-4570 www.plasticboards.com

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BGB Transport, Inc. Gene Berlinger 457 Wilson Ave. Newark, NJ 07105 Phone: 973-817-9200 Fax: 973-817-9301 www.bgbtransport.net Crane Tech LLC Bo Collier 6037 Winthrop Commerce Ave. Riverview, FL 33578 Phone: 800-521-7669 Fax: 813-248-4820 www.cranetech.com Tony Dotto Phone: 800-521-7669 Fax: 813-248-4820 Edgen Murray Corporation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Missouri Jason Bernsen 488 Paul Ave. St. Louis, MO 63135 Phone: 314-524-0001 Fax: 314-524-3110 www.edgenmurray.com Hoffman Equipment Company Timothy J. Watters 300 S. Randolphville Rd. Piscataway, NJ 08854 Phone: 732-752-3600 Fax: 732-968-8371 www.hoffmanequip.com Houston International Insurance Group Kevin Cunningham 600 Galleria Pkwy., Suite 770 Atlanta, GA 30339 Phone: 770-933-3418 www.hiig.com John Lawrie, Inc. Andrew Appleton 15555 Miller Rd. 1 Houston, TX 77049 Phone: 281-456-7100 Fax: 281-456-7104 www.johnlawrieusa.com Liberty Coating Company LLC Paul Sull 21 S. Steel Rd. Morrisville, PA 19067 Phone: 215-630-4869 Fax: 215-736-1114 www.liberty-grp.com

Mississippi Valley Equipment Company, Inc. Ken Sifford 1198 Pershall Rd. St. Louis, MO 63137 Phone: 314-869-8600 Fax: 314-869-6862 www.mve-stl.com Monotube Pile Corporation Scott J. Udelhoven, P.E P.O. Box 7339 Canton, OH 44705-0339 Phone: 330-454-6111 Fax: 330-454-1572 www.monotube.com New England Construction Products, LLC Anthony Sciortino 291 W. Water St. Taunton, MA 02780 Phone: 508-821-4450 Fax: 508-828-5081 PDM Steel Service Centers, Inc. Kenneth Matzek 3535 E. Myrtle St. Stockton, CA 95205 Phone: 209-943-1606 Fax: 209-943-1606 www.pdmsteel.com Jeff Stieler Phone: 209-943-1606 Fax: 209-943-1606 John Norman 3500 Basset St. Santa Clara, CA 95054 Phone: 408-988-3000 Fax: 408-988-3000 Jesse Farrer 4475 Alto Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89115 Phone: 702-413-0067 Fax: 702-413-4736 Galen Littleton 1100 N. 300 W. Spanish Fork, UT 84660 Phone: 801-798-8676 Fax: 801-798-3605 Tyson Lindeman 1785 Schurman Way Woodland, WA 98674 Phone: 360-2251133 Fax: 360-225-0204

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Pipe Unlimited USA, LLC Bill Thomas P.O. Box 2139 Brenham, TX 77834 Phone: 979-830-1300 Fax: 979-830-1301 RPI Construction Equipment Kristin Delargey 26 W. Main St. Mount Ephraim, NJ 08059 Phone: 856-456-0081 Fax: 856-742-1994 www.rpiequipment.com Ryan Delargey Phone: 856-456-0082 Fax: 856-742-1995 RSC Bio Solutions Matthew Houston 9609 Jackson St. Mentor, OH 44060 Phone: 440-639-8633 Fax: 440-639-4414 www.rscbio.com Skyline Steel, LLC Robert Nunmaker 1120 NASA Pkwy., Suite 225 Houston, TX 77058 Phone: 281-992-4000 Fax: 281-335-8321 www.skylinesteel.com Triad Metals International Mike McKinnon 1 Village Rd. Horsham, PA 19044 Phone: 215-784-0240 Fax: 215-784-0180 www.triadmetals.com United Employment Associates Michael Restino 308 Main St. Emmaus, PA 18049 Phone: 610-437-5040 Fax: 610-437-9650 www.unitedemployment.com Vibroplating, Inc. Michael Kaye 353 Camer Dr. Bebsakem, NJ 19020 Phone: 215-638-4413 Fax: 215-638-4940

Local Associates Lo Clear Piling Systems Harold Schmidt 5 Parkwood Ln. Colts Neck, NJ 07722-2116 Phone: 732-863-7000 Fax: 732-863-7040 Engineering Affiliates AECOM George M. Lobman 30 Knightsbridge Rd. Piscataway, NJ 08854 Phone: 732-564-3319 Fax: 732-885-0172 www.aecom.com AMEC Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. Brian Schiessle 3901 Carmichael Ave. Jacksonville, FL 32207 Telephone: 904-396-5173 Fax: 904-396-5703 www.amec.com Thai Nguyen 4919 W. Laurel St. Tampa, FL 33607 Phone: 813-636-1538 American Engineering Testing, Inc. Derek Van Heuveln 550 Cleveland Ave. N. St. Paul, MN 55114 Phone: 800-972-6364 Fax: 651-659-1379 www.amengtest.com Berenyi, Inc. Jay Lilly 49 Immigration St., Suite 201 Charleston, SC 29403 Phone: 843-284-2000 Fax: 843-284-2001 www.berenyi.com BSM Engineering, Inc. Austin Maue P.O. Box 502 Astoria, OR 97103 Phone: 503-325-8065 Fax: 503-325-0861 www.bsmengineering.com Craig Nielsen Phone: 503-325-8065 Fax: 503-325-0861

Sean Kim Phone: 503-325-8065 Fax: 503-325-0861 CH2M Hill Jerome F. Thibeaux 8148 Blasé Rosenberg, TX 77471 Phone: 281-721-8535 Dan Brown & Associates, PC – Kansas Paul Axtell 10134 Glenwood Overton Park, KS 66212 Phone: 913-744-4988 Fax: 423-942-8687 www.danbrownandassociates.com Eustis Engineering Services, LLC Chip Indest 3011 28th St. Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 504-834-0157 Fax: 504-834-0354 www.eustiseng.com Gwen Sanders Phone: 504-834-0157 Fax: 504-834-0354 James Hance Phone: 504-834-0157 Fax: 504-834-0354 Travis Richards Phone: 504-834-0157 Fax: 504-834-0354 Fugro Consultants, Inc. – Loadtest Tim Roberts P.O. Box 740010 Houston, TX 77274 Phone: 713-369-5451 Fax: 713-369-5518 Sanjay Shahji 4233 Rhoda Dr. Baton Rouge, LA 70816 Phone: 225-292-5084 Fax: 225-292-8084 Steve Kenley 15 Veterans Memorial Blvd. Kenner, LA 70062 Phone: 504-464-5355 Fax: 504-464-5357 Jennifer Hooijkaas Phone: 504-464-5355 Fax: 504-464-5357 PILEDRIVER | 27

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GeoDr. Technology BV Rob van Foeken Raam 32 Gouda, ZH 2801VM Phone: +31-653245108 Fax: +31-3569895 www.geoDr..nl Geosciences Testing and Research, Inc. Chris Jones 55 Middlesex St., Suite 225 North Chelmsford, MA 01863 Phone: 978-251-9395 Fax: 978-251-9396 www.gtrinc.net Geotechnology, Inc. Craig Kaibel 11816 Lackland Rd. St. Louis, MO 63146 Phone: 314-997-7440 Fax: 314-997-2067 www.geotechnology.com Engineers, Inc. Brent Robinson 30725 Aurora Rd. Cleveland, OH 44139 Phone: 216-831-6131 Fax: 216-831-0916 www.grlengineers.com Ryan Allin Phone: 216-831-6131 Fax: 216-831-0916 Ben White Phone: 216-831-6131 Fax: 216-831-0916 Brandon Phetteplace Phone: 216-831-6131 Fax: 216-831-0916 Bryan Shive 223 Wilmington W. Chester Pike, Suite 209 Chadds Ford, PA 19317 Phone: 610-459-0278 Fax: 610-459-0279 Ryan Gissal 8000 S. Orange Ave., Suite 225 Orlando, FL 32809 Phone: 407-826-9539 Fax: 407-826-4747 Brian Mondello Phone: 407-826-9539 Fax: 407-826-4747 28 | QUARTER 2 2014

Marty Bixler Phone: 407-826-9539 Fax: 407-826-4747 Mark Rawlings 1540 E. Dundee Rd., Suite 102 Palatine, IL 60074 Phone: 847-221-2750 Fax: 847-221-2752 Al Ziai Phone: 847-221-2750 Fax: 847-221-2752 Tom Hyatt 1973 JN Pease Pl., Suite 101 Charlotte, NC 28262 Phone: 704-593-0992 Fax: 704-593-0993 Karon Webster Phone: 704-593-0992 Fax: 704-593-0993 Alex Ryberg 223 Wilmington W. Chester Pike, Suite 209 Chadds Ford, PA 19317 Phone: 610-459-0278 Fax: 610-459-0279 GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. Rayan Shamas 249 Vanderbilt Ave. Norwood, MA 02063 Phone: 781-278-3841 Fax: 781-278-5702 www.gza.com HDR, Inc. Bing Zhang 4635 S.W. Freeway, Suite 1000 Houston, TX 77027 Phone: 713-425-0117 Fax: 713-622-9265 K.S. Ware & Associates, LLC. Kyle Peters 54 Lindsley Ave. Nashville, TN 37210 Phone: 615-255-9102 Fax: 615-256-5873 www.kswarellc.com

Lahita Engineering, LLC Eric Lahita 211 Adams St., Suite 4 Hoboken, NJ 07030 Phone: 201-923-8349 Fax: 201-421-0886 www.lahitaengineering.com Madrid Engineering Group, Inc. Jason McSwain 2030 State Rd. 60 E. Bartow, FL 33830 Phone: 863-533-9007 Fax: 863-533-8997 http://madridengineering.com/ MCM Juan Munilla 6201 S.W. 70th St., 2nd Floor Miami, FL 33143 Phone: 305-541-0000 Fax: 305-541-9771 www.mcm-us.com Professional Service Industries, Inc. (PSI) Ayodele A. Love 724 Central Ave. Jefferson, LA 70121 Phone: 504-733-9411 Fax: 504-733-9415 www.psiusa.com RS&H CS, Inc. Timothy Barry 1000 Legion Pl., Suite 870 Orlando, FL 32801 Phone: 904-303-2507 www.rsandhcs.com SK Geotechnical Corp. Brett Warren, PE P.O. Box 80190 Billings, MT 59108 Phone: 406-652-3930 Fax: 406-652-3944 www.skgeotechnical.com Soil & Materials Engineering, Inc. Tom Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Dwyer 2000 Legacy Park Dr. Windsor, ON N8W 5S6 Canada Phone: 519-966-8863 Fax: 519-966-8870 ctsoil.com

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Terracon Consultants Jackson Gosnell 1450 Fifth St. W. North Charleston, SC 29405 Phone: 843-884-1234 Fax: 843-884-9234 www.terracon.com Tolunay-Wong Engineers, Inc. Josh Kyte 2455 W. Cardinal Dr., Suite A Beaumont, TX 77705 Phone: 409-840-4214 Fax: 409-840-4259 Armando Gomez Phone: 409-840-4214 Fax: 409-840-4259 Bryan Landers 37534 Hwy. 30, Suite A Gonzales, LA 70737 Phone: 225-644-4966 Fax: 225-644-4966 Jason Engen Phone: 225-644-4966 Fax: 225-644-4966 Lake Martin 10710 S. Sam Houston Pkwy. W., Suite 101 Houston, TX 77032 Phone: 713-722-7065 Fax: 713-722-0320 Terry Micnhimer Phone: 713-722-7064 Fax: 713-722-0319

Individuals California State Polytechnic University Donald P. Coduto P.O. Box 730 La Verne, CA 91750 Phone: 909-869-2642

The University of New Orleans Malay Ghose Hajra EN 813, Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering New Orleans, LA 70148 Phone: 504-905-8447

Columbia University Whitfield Chandler 615 W. 131 St. New York, NY 10027 Phone: 212-851-6172

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The Citadel Simon Ghanat Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering 307 LeTellier Hall, The Citadel 171 Moultrie St. Charleston, SC 29409-6240 Phone: 843-953-5454

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Member News ▼▼ATLAS TUBE HOSTS THIRD ANNUAL STUDENT DAY

Seeks to lay the foundation for broader knowledge of the steel industry at the university level The third annual Atlas Tube Student Day, co-sponsored by DFI and PDCA, was held on April 10, 2014 at Atlas Tube’s facility in Chicago. Approximately 70 undergraduate and graduate students from four different universities arrived at the mill for presentations, a guided tour and, of course, free pizza. Student Day is one of the proudest traditions at Atlas Tube. For three years running, over 200 students have had the opportunity to tour the mill and listen to lectures from industry professionals representing a wide variety of engineering disciplines. The company has received excellent feedback and testimonials from students in the past regarding this event. One student, Jennifer, who attended the 2013 event stated, “[Witnessing] this whole manufacturing process at work is one of the coolest things that I have ever seen.” Every year, Atlas Tube strives to not only meet but exceed the expectations of all the students who attend the event, and to make sure that all of them have an experience comparable to Jennifer’s. The speakers at this year’s event were acclaimed professionals from different fields of engineering. Brett Gitskin, president of ECS Midwest, spoke for his second consecutive Student Day about foundation design and geotechnical engineering. Van Komurka, co-founder of Wagner Komurka Geotechnical Group, presented on select aspects of driven pile design at his first Student Day event. Marv Phillips, Atlas Tube’s residential metallurgist, discussed the nitty gritty of ERW pipe piles, as well as explained the unique manufacturing process that the students would see during their

mill tours. Kirstin Nielsen, corporate recruiter for JMC Steel, was also on hand to talk to students about internship opportunities. Marilyn Poindexter, account manager of the pipe piles division, was the M.C. for the event and did an excellent job welcoming all of the students and detailing the itinerary for the day. After a pizza lunch, students donned white Atlas Tube hard hats, plastic safety glasses, bright orange vests and ear plugs in preparation for their guided tours. The tour is always the highlight of Student Day, as students are able to get an up-close and personal look at how hollow structural sections (HSS) and pipe piles are made. During the approximately 60-minute tours, students see how pipe and tube is manufactured – from the uncoiler to the flattener, and everything in between. Once all of the students returned from their tours, a short debriefing session was held with a Q&A session led by the speakers. Then, with promo item bags, hard hats and extra slices of pizza in tow, they headed back to the buses with more knowledge about the piling manufacturing process, and, hopefully, a greater appreciation for the steel industry as well. Chris Ragan, product manager of Atlas Pipe Piles, is the visionary who developed the idea for Student Day. “We feel that one of the most important things that we as a company can do today is invest in the engineers of tomorrow,” said Ragan. “By showcasing presentations from industry professionals, as well as giving students an opportunity to tour their first steel mill, we are able to provide them with an incomparable experience that helps to complement their collegiate curriculum as well as lay the foundation for a great future in their engineering careers to come.” Continued on page 33

Atlas Tube champions the initiative to get students interested in the industry by hosting Student Day each year Credit: Atlas Tube

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Annual Design and Installation of Cost-Efficient Piles (DICEP) Conference Wednesday, October 9, 2014 in Salt Lake City, Utah

DICEP Conference Who should attend:

What you will learn and experience:

The PDCA’s 15th Annual Design and Installation of Cost-Efficient Piles (DICEP) conference is designed for geotechnical, structural and civil engineers as well as contractors and other firms or individuals who support, conduct business or are associated with the deep foundation, earth retention and/or driven pile industries. Licensed P.E.’s needing Professional Development Hours (PDH) can obtain six PDH from this conference.

The DICEP conference will present a series of presentations designed to educate professionals who work in the foundations industry. Preliminary presentation topics include subjects pertaining to subsurface investigation and report recommendations, site characterization, determination of vertical resistance of sheet pile abutments, load development and establishment of driving criteria, taper pile advantages, international and domestic case histories using driven piles and projects converted to driven piles due to economic, geotechnical and scheduling advantages.

PDCA is officially recognized as an approved provider for PDH in Florida, New York and Maryland, but meets the criteria for issuing PDH in most other states. All attendees will receive a “Certificate of Completion” showing six (6) earned PDH. PDCA will submit PDH to New York and Florida for engineers holding licenses in those states. Additional information may be obtained by going to the PDCA website, www.piledrivers.org, or by contacting the PDCA office directly at 888-311-PDCA (7322).

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▼▼AMAZING SAFETY RECORD AT GERDAU’S MIDLOTHIAN MILL Gerdau’s steel mill in Midlothian, Texas was recognized recently for its amazing safety record. On Tuesday, March 4, Gerdau’s board of directors visited the mill to congratulate the staff on two years without a single Lost Time Accident (LTA), an incredible achievement for a mill of this size. The mill in Midlothian is composed of a STAR recycling facility, two electric arc furnaces and three rolling mills (two for structural sections, including the flat web sheet piling and one for special bars). In this two-year period with no LTAs, the mill has produced approximately 2.7 million tons of steel. With over 1,000 employees and an average of 250 contractors each day working in the mill, these two years without LTA equate to over 6,000,000 man-hours. “It is actually a lot more hours,” said Ron Herring, the mill’s safety manager, “as we would also count against us any accident sustained by one of the truck drivers or scrap drivers, but we don’t actually count their hours worked in the mill.” To produce 2.7 million tons of steel in two years means that approximately 30,000 trucks were loaded at the mill (the rest being supplied by rail). So the real question is: What is the key to this achievement? “There isn’t one single answer to that question,” answered Greg Bott, general manager of the mill. “Nobody comes to work in the morning wanting to get injured.” Like most companies, Gerdau has a safety policy and a safety manual. It is also ISO 1400 certified. It also has various safety tools in place: •• 5s: This tool is common in many workplaces, which utilize basic management principles of lean management, which are designed to improve morale, safety and efficiency. In Midlothian, however, the mill has assigned a member of its management systems department to drive the program plant-wide. Nearly all work

processes within the mill are in the sustaining process, and each participates in an annual award program for best in class and most improved. •• Safety hour: Every day of the week, departmental managers meet for an hour with safety as the only topic on the agenda. Each Wednesday, the executive safety committee visits a department to participate in their safety hour; this adds new eyes to the operating process and different recommendations to address opportunities observed by the team members. The executive safety committee consists of representatives from all of the eight departments (melt shop, scrap processing, three rolling mills, logistics, quality engineering and general mill). •• My Accountability for Safety and Health (MASH): This 40-hour, stringent safety training program has to be undertaken by all new hires and full-time contractors. It is a prerequisite to performing any activities at the mill. This program was developed at the Midlothian mill and has been recognized by OSHA as best practice. From day one of employment, the bar is set high. •• MASH cards are a way of reporting and recording unsafe acts and conditions. These are reviewed at the start of the following shift. Safety concerns are immediately addressed and, as needed, exculpated to a higher level based on the safety program of the mill. •• Preliminary Risk Analysis: For every non-routine work task, this pre-task written permitting system is carried out to assure that all safety mechanisms and process controls are in place, all hazards are identified and controlled and all employees are aware. A PRA may take up to 20 minutes to complete and will result in a series of specific permits being issued. As an example, if a pair of maintenance workers were to be assigned the task of replacing a cylinder requiring the use of a man basket for safe access, a PRA and a “work at heights” permit would need to be completed prior to the start of the job. The two-man job task

With safety-mindfulness a condition of employment at Gerdau, the Midlothian, Texas mill recently celebrated two years without any lost time accidents Credit: Gerdau

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would require a ground spotter to ensure the safety of these men during the process. Once the job is completed, the permit is cancelled and forwarded to the manager of maintenance for review. In Midlothian, an average of 1,100 PRAs are completed monthly. •• Cardinal rules: This is the ultimate weapon, where zero tolerance applies based on the list of the top six causes of fatality in the steel industry. It is imperative to follow these rules for the safety of everyone in the work environment. •• Incentives: Every employee and contractor understands on their first day of work at the mill that safety is a condition of employment. There is no monetary safety bonus incentive at the mill. The awards are seen in other areas such as increased production and quality, commitment in the 5s campaign and reduced downtime because the task is completed correctly due to the zero tolerance of taking short-cuts. All these tools are key to the current safety record. But the real difference, according to Herring and Bott, is the commitment of the company leadership – a commitment to walk the talk, a commitment to set the expectation levels where safe working practices are a condition of employment. The expectations are high; the tolerance is low. Bott leads the mill’s executive safety council very much like a sporting coach by empowering the workers. He challenges his team to improve their own working conditions. Safety hour is no longer a meeting where staff complain about what’s wrong, but an opportunity to suggest improvements. The management team also understands that, in order to implement improvements, the necessary tools must be provided. And Gerdau does just that. The capital investment in the safety program has been impressive over the past five years. Even during the worst of the recession, the mill continued to invest in its safety program with the installation, for example, of the catch nets in the loading zones to protect truck drivers. But, according to Bott, “It all boils down to making everyone understand that safety has to and does come first, and that we will do what it takes to make sure everyone goes home safely at the end of the day.”

▼▼HAMMER AND STEEL, INC. PROVIDES STEEL SHEET PILING FOR CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SMART SYSTEM

Keeping in line with California’s penchant for exceptional public transportation systems, the counties of Sonoma and Marin began joint construction of an area transit system, and Hammer and Steel, Inc. has been commissioned for providing steel sheet piling for the job. Phase I of the project, known as Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART), calls for the replacement of sixty 100-year-old rail lines from Santa Rosa to San Rafael, to be completed by 2016. Part of the project requires the construction of a new bridge across the Petaluma River. For the bridge portion of the project, C.C. Myers and Ghilotti Brothers formed a joint venture and were awarded the work. Over 325 tons of steel sheet piling was used for the construction of two temporary cofferdams, combining PZC 18, PZC 26 and PZ 35 to finish the job. The first cofferdam will be in place for approximately one year, with the second cofferdam staying in place for two years. Overall, the new SMART line hopes to include ten stations between Santa Rosa and San Rafael. Seven two-car trains will run the line, powered by an environmentally friendly “Tier 4” diesel engine. Each train will have the capacity for up to 158 seated passengers, 160 standing passengers and 23 bicycles. The top speed of these trains will be 79 mph, with an average speed, including stops, of 40 mph between San Rafael and Santa Rosa. The Petaluma River Bridge has a span of 907 feet, and it is the third longest precast, pre-stressed concrete girder bridge in the United States. The bridge will be constructed in three stages and require erection of 99 girders up to 130 feet in length and up to 60 tons each. The bridge itself is projected to be finished in late 2015, with commuter service starting in 2016 at an estimated cost of $67 million dollars. In addition to the rail line, the project also calls for the construction of several handicap-accessible bike and walking paths, which will be completed throughout the various phases of this project. ▼▼INDEPENDENCE TUBE ACHIEVES ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFICATION

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The ISO 9001:2008 certification recognizes that the policies, practices and procedures of our company ensure consistent quality in the product and services we provide. Our clients can be confident Independence Tube is dedicated to maintaining the highest efficiency and responsiveness in achieving our ultimate goal – guaranteed client satisfaction. A copy of the ISO certificate can be found at: http://www. independencetube.com/quality ▼▼BERMINGHAM CONTRIBUTES CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT EXPERTISE TO WHEATSTONE LNG PROJECT IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA Wheatstone LNG is a liquefied natural gas plant under construction in the Ashburton North Strategic Industrial Area, which is located 7.5 miles west of Onslow, Western Australia. The project is expected to cost US$29.7 billion. The LNG liquefaction and export plant will have an annual capacity of 15 million tonnes of LNG. Bechtel Oil & Gas Chemicals Inc. is undertaking the design of the onshore gas plant, and awarded the design and construction of the LNG storage and condensate tanks to EVT, a joint venture between Entrepose Contracting, VINCI Construction Grand Projects and Thiess. EVT contracted the deep foundation works for the two LNG storage tanks to Menard Bachy Pty. Ltd., while MBPL sought out Bermingham’s expertise in pile driving equipment and construction. Bermingham provided three systems of 33-meter L23 VTL with a B64 diesel hammer

mounted on three different cranes. Along with renting the three pile driving systems, Bermingham provided key personnel to help start the job, train MBPL employees and service the systems. One challenge MBPL and Bermingham overcame was to install one-meter diameter sleeves around the 0.61-meter diameter driven pile. A chaser was developed that sat between the sleeve and the pile, and was driven with the B64. This voided the area between the pile and the sleeve, and left the sleeve in the ground. A second challenge was to develop a system that could chase five-meter piles 11 meters below ground and extract the chaser. Bermingham developed the idea to use a ring-vibrator, mounted to the leads just below the hammer, hanging from a Bermingham custom head sheave. It allowed the B64 to drive the chaser to depth, while the ring-vibrator would readily extract it. Although neither party had worked with each other before, Bermingham and Menard Bachy Australia were a logical pairing for this challenging project – Bermingham, for its innovative piling solutions developed from years of construction experience, and Menard Bachy, with its strong organizational project planning team. “Menard Bachy Australia has been looking to the Berminghammer capabilities in order to provide suitable and reliable equipment for the driving of its piles and inclusions,” said Vincent Douet, technical manager, Geotechnical, at March Construction Ltd. “Three B64 hammers have been mounted on special leads fitted on three 100- to 150-ton cranes. In order to train the local staff, Bermingham supplied some experienced staff, including site and QA engineer, piling supervisors and specialized fitter. Due to the high level of exigency from the client, these qualified personnel have been seconded to Menard Bachy for the whole duration of the project. Their skills and knowledge have allowed the project to run efficiently and to provide proper support.”

Bermingham’s expertise was crucial on the site of the Wheatstone LNG project in Western Australia Credit: Bermingham

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▼▼CREATIVE PULTRUSIONS, INC. HIRES TED HARRIS AS MARKET DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER Creative Pultrusions, Inc. (CPI) welcomed Ted Harris on March 17th, 2014. Harris has over 25 years of product design, development and engineering experience in manufacturing. He also has extensive experience working in sales, marketing and business development. He has a degree in aerospace engineering and is a registered professional engineer in mechanical engineering in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Harris joins CPI as market development engineer, and will be responsible for marketing the TRANSONITE® Panel product line. TRANSONITE® is a registered trademark and is manufactured under one or more of the following U.S. patents: #7,056,576, #7,217,453, #7,785,693, #7,846,528, #7,387,147, #6,676,785, #6,645,333, #7,105,071, and #8,002,919. “Creative Pultrusions is pleased to announce the hiring of Ted Harris and welcome him aboard the CPI team,” said Shane Weyant, president and chief executive officer of CPI. “This was a proactive decision by CPI to bring Ted on board to develop and market the new TRANSONITE® product line. We are excited as a company to begin working with various industries to

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2014 PDCA Calendar of Events Mark your calendars with the dates of PDCA’s events throughout the year

Note: All meetings, dates and times listed in this calendar are subject to change. Please find updates on the PDCA website, www.piledrivers.org, or call the PDCA office at 888-311-PDCA (7322).

JUNE 2014 June 25 June 26 June 26

PDCA Executive Committee Meeting Pile Driving Inspectors Course PDCA of Texas Chapter Meeting

Conference Call Vancouver, BC, Canada Houston, TX

Canada Day – Mike Justason, PDCA President, unavailable (eh!) Independence Day – PDCA Office Closed PDCA Board of Directors Meeting FSAE Annual Conference IFCEE Management & Technical Program Committee Meetings, JW Marriott PDCA Executive Committee Meeting

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Chapter News Keep up-to-date about what’s going on with your local PDCA chapter. For information about how to get active in PDCA chapters, contact the national office at 888-311-PDCA (7322), or be in touch with any chapter representative.

▼▼PDCA CHAPTER COMMITTEE At the PDCA 18th Annual International Conference & Expo 2014 in St. Louis, PDCA chapters met as a formal group for the second time. The group discussed beneficial and insightful issues critical to the different PDCA chapters. Throughout the discussion, it became evident that better communications between national PDCA and each of the chapters will produce stronger chapters, which further strengthens the association. As a result, the group formed the PDCA Chapters Committee, whose purpose is to create a heightened collaborative partnership between national PDCA and the chapters, designed to advance both the driven pile industry and association market. Rusty Signor will serve as chair of the PDCA Chapters Committee.

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▼▼PDCA OF SOUTH CAROLINA CHAPTER The PDCA of South Carolina Chapter held their 8th Annual Oyster Roast at the yard of Palmetto Pile Diving in Charleston, S.C. on Friday, January 17. The weather was brisk with a light breeze off the Cooper River – just right for an oyster roast. Attendance was estimated at over 200 people, including contractors, pile drivers, engineers and suppliers along with their wives and

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children. Over 1,200 lbs. of Charleston’s finest local oysters were cooked and served to the hungry crowd. Chili dogs were also provided, along with a variety of beverages. Two long tables were set up outside for shucking and eating oysters. There was also an indoor seating area, with tables for desserts. An educational display was provided showing the different types of driven piles used in South Carolina. As in past years, everyone had a great time. It was a nice way for everyone to get together away from the pressures of work to relax and enjoy themselves. The chapter conducted its first quarterly meeting at the Town and Country Inn in Charleston on March 4. The featured speaker

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was Carroll Crowther of Whitaker Labs in Savannah, Ga. Carroll provided an interesting and entertaining presentation on pile driving. Using quotes from a driven pile textbook written in the 1880s along with several references about pile driving from ancient times, Carroll related that despite all of our technological improvements, we still have a number of the same problems that people did in the past, whether it was 2,000 years ago, 100 years ago or yesterday. Technology changes but people don’t. We should all take our work seriously but not ourselves. On Thursday, March 27 in the Riverview Room at The Citadel, the chapter hosted their fifth biennial Driven Pile Seminar. The chapter provided a number of speakers from across the country who presented information on an underwater test pile program for the protection of fish, a column supported embankment, an overview of pile installation in New Orleans, the replacement of North Carolina’s Bonner Bridge and the use of scaled capacity to control vibrations. The South Carolina Chapter’s next regularly scheduled meeting will be Tuesday, June 3, 2014. The program for the meeting is yet to be determined.

▼▼PDCA OF THE PACIFIC COAST CHAPTER On Friday, April 11, over 70 contractors, suppliers, guests and PDCA members attended the 4th Annual PDCA Shoot in Birds Landing, Calif. This year, the attendance continued to grow, making this event one of the Pacific Coast PACI FI C COAST Chapter’s most popular ever. Over $7,526 was generated from the proceeds for the chapter’s scholarship fund. Teams of four shooters each were formed, and the winning team was from Consolidated Engineering and Panel Solutions.

▼▼PDCA OF THE GULF COAST CHAPTER The Gulf Coast Chapter hosted their first quarterly meeting on March 27 at Messina’s Restaurant in Kenner, La. Mike Moran with Cajun Deep Foundations provided an update on the activities of the PDCA Safety Committee’s activities and copies of the new Toolbox Safety Review booklets were distributed. Chris Normand, with Cajun Deep Foundations, was elected Chapter Secretary. The featured speaker was Jeff Hairston with RHTC, Inc., who discussed crane and pile driving safety as well as the implementation of the revised OSHA regulations pertaining to crane operator certification. The chapter also hosted the Annual Crawfish Boil on Thursday, April 17 on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain at Frenier Landing in LaPlace, La.

Individual awards were given to the top three scores: First place was Adam Sheldon from Shimmick Construction with a score of 78. Second and third place winners had to be decided by a tiebreaker at Station 1. In the end, second place was Steven Chaves from American Pile Driving Equipment with a score of 76, and Gary Wilders from Pio’s Trucking received third place with a score of 76. The “Duck and Cover” award was won by John Fallon. As in the past, several door prizes were donated and a raffle drawing was held. The prizes included a Franchi Affinity Sporting 12-Gauge shot gun, a Stoeger Uplander Side X Side .410 and a CZ 455 Varmint Rifle 17 HMR, as well as a 32-inch Sony TV and several gift certificates and gift bags. A barbecue lunch followed, and it was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Our sincere thanks go out to Shirley Riddle from Foundation Constructors, who went above and beyond the call of duty to make sure that this year’s event was a success.

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▼▼PDCA OF THE NORTHEAST CHAPTER The Northeast Chapter held their first meeting of the New Year on March 19 at the Iberia Peninsula Restaurant in Newark, N.J. A crowd was on hand to enjoy a good meal and an interesting presentation by Mr. Ray Mankbadi, P.E., with Hardesty and Hanover Geotechnical Engineering, on a time/cost comparison between static pile load tests and Statnamic pile load tests. Ray also discussed his experiences during the construction of the Great Egg Harbor Bridge as well as other work in Florida. The chapter will next host a Meet and Greet on Wednesday, May 28, at the Battleship New Jersey in Camden, New Jersey. The will be an opportunity for pile drivers in Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey to learn more about the PDCA and the Northeast Chapter to learn what they have to offer and how they enhance their business through membership and pursuit of common goals.

▼▼PDCA OF THE MID-ATLANTIC CHAPTER The Mid-Atlantic Chapter held its first 2014 dinner meeting at Union Jack’s British Pub in Annapolis, Md. on Thursday, Feb. 2. The meeting was attended by more than 40 pile driving enthusiasts, who met to socialize and network with industry friends, clients and yes, even likeminded competitors. Bryan Shive of GRL Engineers in Philadelphia was the guest speaker and presented information on high strain dynamic load testing, remote testing technologies and dynamic testing conducted on a project, which involved the widening of the N.J. Turnpike from exits 6 to 9. The chapter’s next meeting will be in late-May 2014, in Portsmouth, Va. Current plans are to have another “Meet & Greet,” potentially at the Renaissance, but plans are still being investigated to hold a dinner meeting with speakers who will update the audience on area work with NAVFAC.

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The Texas Chapter held their first meeting of 2014 on Thursday, March 27 at ▼▼PDCA OF FLORIDA CHAPTER the Texas Land and Cattle Steak House The Florida Chapter conductin Houston, Texas. Two speakers were ed a meeting on May 20 at the featured. The first was Don Edsall, with Sheraton Fort Lauderdale Flexicore of Texas, and Roy Erickson, Airport & Cruise Port Hotel in with Flexicore of Florida, who spoke Dania Beach, Fla. Traditionally, on design and fabrication of prestressed meetings have been held on a concrete piles and other prestressed conrotating basis in Jacksonville, crete components. Also presenting was Orlando and Tampa. This was Tex Leggio, with Aggregate Technologies, who described the modthe chapter’s first meeting in the ern, efficient and high-production methods of pile cut-off provided southern end of the state. The featured speaker was Mr. Mohamad by his company. Hussein, of GRL Engineers, Inc. The title of his presentation was The chapter will next meet in mid-June in the Houston area. t “Considerations for the Rational Interpretation and Practical Application of Pile Testing Results.” The presentation highlighted how good test data and proper analysis of that data can lead to a better understanding of pile performance, better installation criteria and a more efficient and cost-effective driven pile foundation.

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Wrapping Up the PDCA 18th Annual International Conference & Expo 2014

DCA recently completed its 18th Annual International Conference & Expo 2014 at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch. Despite the uncooperative weather, the entire conference was a tremendous success with some traditional PDCA programs and some new and innovative ones. For some, the conference began on Tuesday, April 1, with a preconference short course, “Pile Driving Professionals Development Course.” This new PDCA course, designed for entry-level professionals in the pile driving industry, was presented by Buck Darling and Pat Hannigan. At the conclusion of the course, all remarks from the students regarding the course content and presentation were very positive. The Executive Committee and Board of Directors had their annual conference meetings; the Executive Committee on Tuesday, April 1, followed by the Board on Wednesday morning, April 2. PDCA Scholarship Fund The PDCA Scholarship Fund program offered something a little different this year. The PDCA Scholarship Fund continues to raise money for scholarship awards to students enrolled or enrolling in construction, engineering or related technical programs. This year, the event was a Sporting Clay Tournament at the St. Louis Skeet and Trap Club. The program raised more than $2,000 for the fund. At this point, PDCA wants to acknowledge two very special PDCA members and individuals: Mississippi Valley Equipment Company (St. Louis, Mo.) and Karl Bogle; and Instantel (Ottawa, Ont., Canada) and Ron Mask. Karl was instrumental in helping the PDCA coordinate the Sporting Clay Tournament. He selected the club, arranged all the introductions and meetings, and offered helpful suggestion on tournament format and scheduling. Mississippi Valley Equipment Company also donated a Browning 12-gauge, semiauto shotgun for the Silent Auction, which raised money for the scholarship fund.

Ron Mask with Instantel provided each shooter (a total of 32, or 8 teams) with some very nice ammo packs, hats and ear protection. Thanks Karl and Ron for your contributions and continued support of PDCA and this very important program. Conference Events The conference began Wednesday evening, April 2, with the traditional Opening Reception with light and heavy hors d’oeuvres and an open bar. This event was duplicated the following night, Thursday, April 3, providing conference attendees plenty of time to socialize and network with friends, clients, contractors and vendors. Both evening receptions were held in the Exhibit Hall, which was supported by 40 PDCA member companies displaying their services and products to 200 conference attendees. PDCA wants to thank all of our exhibitors for your support and participation this year. Thursday morning officially kicked off the conference with the Opening Ceremony, which included guest entertainer, Bob Garner. The conference included nine industry-related and relevant General Session presentations, a keynote by Kevin McLain, geotechnical director, MODOT and FHWA programs and initiative updates by Silas Nichols, senior bridge engineer – Geotechnical, FHWA. PDCA held its Business and Awards Luncheon, where selected members of PDCA were honored as a result of their commitment, support and participation in the PILEDRIVER | 45

association and to the pile driving industry. Pollyanna Cunningham was selected as Committee Chair of the Year for her work on the Communications Committee; Dale Biggers received the Professional Engineers Service Award for his work as chair of the PDCA Technical Committee and their work on revisions to Chapter 18 of the IBC; and Van Komurka received the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service, selected and presented each year by the PDCA president for outstanding service to PDCA and pile driving industry. During the Business and Awards Luncheon, PDCA also announced the winning companies who submitted projects for the PDCA Project of the Year Awards. You can read more about the companies and their winning projects in this edition of PileDriver magazine, starting on page 62. Throughout the conference, PDCA had the pleasure of entertaining the Companionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Program participants. They attended various conference programs at the Hyatt, but went off as a group to the St.

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Louis Art Museum for a tour and lunch, the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis and the beautiful display of mosaic tiles, the Gateway Arch, Botanical Gardens and private breakfasts and lunches. The conference concluded on Friday evening with the Annual Reception, Dinner and Entertainment. The evening included an elegant buffet with plenty of dining options for everyone and an open bar throughout the evening. For entertainment, everyone enjoyed a little casino action with PDCA chips and a chance to bid on selected items with their winnings from the various games. For those who just wanted to relax after dinner, the Mark Pedigo Trio played their renditions of some popular St. Louis jazz and blues. PDCA wants to thank all of our sponsors for their support of the annual conference. Without you, PDCA could not provide the conference experience that everyone enjoys year after year. Please see a list of the sponsors in this edition of PileDriver magazine.â&#x20AC;&#x201A; t

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What you MISSED in St. Louis By John King, Pile Drivers, Inc.

I was pleasantly surprised by all the exciting information I learned at the PDCA 18th Annual International Conference & Expo 2014 this year in St. Louis. Those of you who couldn’t or chose not to attend missed out. I was very inspired by the relationship between PDCA and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and that relationship is big for all future, DOT-related pile driving. PDCA is working with the FHWA to review and update their driven pile manuals, which says a lot about our organization and what its doing for our industry. PDCA is also working with the National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) to develop a training course for operators of dedicated pile driving rigs that will lead to certification in accordance with OHSA regulations. Again, this is important to all of us in our industry. Dale Biggers (of Boh Bros.) and the Technical Committee are now working to update the International Building Code (IBC). That work is currently underway and will affect us all in the near future. It further goes to show that PDCA is well-recognized and our voices are being heard. It was great to catch up with all the old friends I haven’t seen since our conference in Orlando and meet some new faces. PDCA gives us the opportunity to work with each other to further our industry, which helps us on many levels. We need to make sure that we take advantage of these opportunities every chance we get. I hope to see more new faces at future PDCA events! t

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Honored with the PDCA Presidential Award for Distinguished Service A regular speaker at PDCA events, Komurka says it’s gratifying as a pile-design engineer to be recognized by a contractors’ association By Lisa Kopochinski

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t was pretty much a no-brainer this year as to who would receive the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service. As one of PDCA’s highest awards – which recognizes an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership, professional competence and significant accomplishments, while distinguishing themselves through noteworthy advancement of the association – no one was surprised that the honor went to Van E. Komurka, P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE. As president of Wagner Komurka Geotechnical Group, Inc. in Cedarburg, Wis., Komurka’s career as a geotechnical engineer spans nearly three decades. He joined PDCA in 2002 at the urging of Dr. George Goble and has served on the Technical Committee for many years. “He has offered expert advice on committee issues including revisions to the AASHTO specifications (10.5 and 10.7) and the committee’s current work on IBC Chapter 18, as well as being a consistent responder to ‘Ask PDCA,’” said Steve Hall, PDCA executive director. “He has also presented at several Design and Installation of Cost-Efficient Piles (DICEP) workshops and joint

PDCA association conferences – primarily on driven pile benefits – including cost-effectiveness, design advantages, cost analysis of driven piles versus alternative foundations, set-up and downdrag.” In addition, Komurka has been a guest speaker at many chapter meetings and is currently conducting independent webinars and seminars on cost-effective driven-pile foundation design, as well as offering peer review for foundation design and costevaluation. He is a consistent presenter at the PDCA Professors’ Driven Pile Institute (PDPI), presenting on a number of topics such as support cost components, economics of driven pile foundations, soil/pile set-up and more, and also provides support for the axial and lateral static and dynamic load test field events. Rusty Signor, immediate past president of PDCA and owner of TX Pile in Austin, Texas, is a big fan and has introduced Van no less than six times at different events over the past year. “He’s a wealth of information,” said Signor. “I don’t know anyone who has been introduced that much in a year. He came down to Utah for a whole week last year to be one of the instructors for the PDPI. He never says no. And, as a contractor, I can PILEDRIVER | 53

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call him anytime. He’s got a huge heart.” Komurka says he was thrilled to receive the award. “It’s an honor to receive this award in several ways,” he said. “To be selected from such a large group of valuably contributing individuals is humbling. It’s gratifying, too, as an independent pile-design engineer to be recognized by a contractors’ organization.” Too often, he adds, engineers and contractors may be at odds with one another because they lack perspective about the other party’s roles and capabilities or don’t communicate well about experiences, ideas and information to mutually contribute to a successful project. “By recognizing a design engineer with this award, PDCA is demonstrating its understanding and commitment to promoting a more-complete industry dialogue,” said Komurka. Komurka earned a Master’s degree in civil engineering from Colorado State University. After working several years as a geotechnical engineer, colleague Al Wagner asked him to cofound Wagner Komurka Geotechnical Group, Inc. (WKG2) in 1994. When Wagner retired, Komurka became WKG2’s president. “Throughout my career, I’ve gravitated toward driven-pile projects and especially like field test programs,” he said. “Pile test programs are unique within civil engineering design. Pile designers have the opportunity to make their best design estimate, install a full-scale driven pile using production equipment, instrument it to determine behavior under load, test it to geotechnical (plunging) failure and then refine the final design based on the results. What other design discipline gets to do all that?” And, if that weren’t enough, he added, “The caliber and personal integrity of the individuals actively involved in PDCA are outstanding. It’s a blessing to be associated with such individuals, and to call many of them friends.” t

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With an impressive engineering career that spans more than 45 years, Biggers is equally diligent as chair of the PDCA Technical Committee By Lisa Kopochinski

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nnually, the prestigious Professional Engineer’s Service Award is presented to an engineer who has made a significant contribution to not just PDCA, but to the driven pile industry as a whole in any engineering discipline – geotechnical, civil or structural. This year’s recipient, Dale Biggers, P.E., a vice president at New Orleans-based Boh Bros. Construction, was the obvious choice, not just due to his diligence to PDCA as chair of the Technical Committee, but because of his lifelong dedication to the pile driving industry and unwavering willingness to help others. “He’s the classic Southern gentleman,” said Rusty Signor, immediate past president of PDCA and owner of TX Pile of Austin, Texas. “He’s so nice and can settle any squabbles people have. He’s Mr. Diplomatic.“ Signor also says choosing Biggers for this award was a “slam dunk.” “Not that there weren’t contenders,” he added, “but probably the biggest benefit Dale is providing PDCA membership is the specification of driven piles. He has also been involved in so many

projects. He picked me up at the airport in New Orleans recently and pointed out all the projects Boh Bros. had done. He wasn’t bragging. He’s just really busy. He took me around different jobsites and explained things. I’ve been a contractor for 35 years and I felt like a newbie.” Biggers joined Boh Bros. in 1968 as a project manager following graduation from Tulane University where he earned two degrees – a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering. During his lengthy career with the 104-year-old, familyowned heavy construction company, he has estimated and managed projects such as the New Orleans Aquarium, Convention Center Phase II and III, USACE pump stations and a $1.7-million test pile program for the Corps. He was named manager of the pile and marine department in 2001 and then vice president in 2003. Biggers talks glowingly about the profession he has chosen and the wonderful work Boh Bros. has done. “After Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, we led the first PILEDRIVER | 55

“[The PDCA Technical Committee] has geotechnical and structural engineers from across the country, pile drivers and other specialties of piles. I think after each call, I should get an hour and a half of professional development hours because you learn so much from listening to experts from across the country.” – Dale Biggers, Winner, PDCA Professional Engineer’s Service Award

seven trucks of steel sheet piles into the city at four a.m.,” he said. In 2006, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) presented Biggers with the Outstanding Civil Engineer award in New Orleans. Asked what he likes most about the pile driving industry, he doesn’t hesitate. “Every job is different. There are different owners, different soils, different piles and different general contractors. In many ways, you are in charge of your own fate.” Boh Bros. joined PDCA in 1996. Shortly after that, Biggers was asked by Randy Dietel to join the Technical Committee in 2001. A few years later, he became committee chair. As chair, Biggers religiously heads conference calls twice a month that easily run an hour and a half in duration and always include 15 to 20 people. “The committee reviews the foundation section of the International Building Code; we review it line by line,” he said. “This committee has geotechnical and structural engineers from across the country, pile drivers and other specialties of piles. I think after each call, I should get an hour and a half of professional development hours because you learn so much from listening to experts from across the country.” The Technical Committee is well appreciated within PDCA, as well. “The amount of people on this committee is unprecedented,” said Signor. “People need to understand how important this committee is.” When asked his thoughts on receiving the PDCA Professional Engineer’s Service Award, Biggers’ humility clearly shines through. “It was very nice. They handed it to me, but they didn’t really give me the award,” he said. “The award really went to the committee. We have combined with the DFI and are making a joint effort to change the IBC. They gave the award to the whole group of people who are making these changes.” t 56 | QUARTER 2 2014 PILEDRIVER MAGAZINE - Quarter 1 - HP-Island-4C.indd 1

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Receives Committee Chair of the Year Award As director of marketing and IT communications for a construction equipment company, Cunningham brings this same strong dedication to PDCA By Lisa Kopochinski

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he adage, “If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it,” certainly applies to Pollyanna Cunningham, this year’s recipient of the PDCA Committee Chair of the Year Award. As director of marketing and IT communications at International Construction Equipment, Inc. (ICE) in Matthews, N.C., she has served on PDCA’s Communications Committee for four years and as chair for two. In this relatively short time, she has helped PDCA members feel welcome at events and is always willing to help support the contractors, suppliers and educators. The PDCA Committee Chair of the Year Award is typically presented to a committee chair who has done an exemplary job

leading and facilitating the responsibilities of their committee, ensuring that it contributes to the benefits and services provided to PDCA members, or who – through the actions of their committee – influences or enhances the image of PDCA or the pile driving industry. No one fits the bill better for this award than Cunningham. For instance, last year, the communications committee (under her leadership) continued to raise the professionalism of PileDriver magazine. In 2013, the fourth quarter reached is highest number of pages to date – a whopping 160 full pages with more than 3,000 editions distributed quarterly. And since its inception late 2000 – with Lester Publications producing the first PILEDRIVER | 57

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edition in spring 2001 – the publication has grown to be the flagship of PDCA communications to members, guest subscribers and the pile driving industry worldwide. “This is due to the efforts of the Communications Committee seeking, acquiring and publishing the editorial content that is the cornerstone of PileDriver,” said PDCA executive director, Steve Hall. “As with all industry-leading publications, great articles drive ad revenue. In 2013, Quarter 4 reached the highest number of ads, totaling 62.94 ad pages. As chair, Pollyanna’s committee is also responsible for oversight of the PDCA website, e-letter, directory and annual calendar.” Additionally, at the end of 2013, PDCA’s website (www.piledrivers.org) had just under 5 million hits, indicating the site is a great resource to the industry and well managed by the committee. “This award really belongs to the Communications Committee members, and not me,” said Cunningham. “Thank you for recognizing us. This is a true honor.” Cunningham received her Masters of Arts and Masters in Business Administration from Webster University. In her position at ICE, she has helped the company gain strong recognition in the construction industry, particularly over the Internet. Her strong leadership skills were also evident in prior positions with associations and civic groups that include AEM I MAKE America Campaign, as special events manager at Epcot WDW Company and as a professional fundraiser for the Republican Party. Cunningham also served as the alternative delegate in Pennsylvania for the 2004 Republican National Convention. It is this same strong dedication and exemplary work ethic that she brings to PDCA. She has consistently estab-

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lished better representation for all association members, delivering more educational avenues that support business standards and creating a gathering place for members to work together for the good of the pile driving industry. A long-term goal is introducing a lobbying group to help Washington make more informed decisions with money in infrastructure by creating a stronger and tighter organizational partnership with those who have a strong voice in D.C. ”She made a video for us last year and it was so professionally done,” said Rusty Signor, PDCA’s immediate past president. “And that was just one of her projects. She also attends all of the conventions and her response to others is immediate. I met her about four years ago near the end of a convention (before I was president) as she and her coworkers were packing up their booth after a very busy day. I inquired about a golf shirt, but they didn’t have my size. I told her that was completely fine, but the next morning on my desk, in Texas, there was the shirt in my size! I knew at that point there was something special about that lady. I was a customer and she treats all customers with tremendous respect and has done this with everything we have asked her to do.” t

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pril 2-4 marked the PDCA 18th Annual International Conference & Expo 2014 at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch in St. Louis, Mo. As in past years, PDCA recognized some outstanding companies working in the driven pile industry with the prestigious Project of the Year Awards. The awards highlight companies that demonstrate ingenuity, hard work and commitment to each submitted construction project. The Project of the Year Awards are an important part of PDCA. Every year, PDCA has the privilege of recognizing and paying tribute to jobs that PDCA members work on each day in the pile driving industry. It is a time when new ideas can be brought to the forefront â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a time to see and share best practices. The awards are also one of the most valuable fundraising programs that enable PDCA to expand its educational programming and scholarship funding. PDCA would like to congratulate the winning companies for the Project of the Year Awards. We had an extensive lineup of unique and very challenging jobs in both land and marine environments.

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This year, PDCA congratulates the following winners: Land > $5 Million –

$2 Million to $5 Million: Marine –

Cape Romain Contractors, Inc., SCDOT SC171 over Folly Creek and Folly River; Value Engineering for Pile Supported Embankment

PND Engineers, Inc., Boswell Unite 4 Open Cell Sheet Pile™ Bulkhead

Folly Road (SC-171) in Charleston County, S.C. is a two-lane combination of salt-marsh causeways and bridges that connects the Town of Folly Beach, locally known as the “Edge of America,” to the rest of the U.S. In April 2012, the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) awarded a $32-million dollar Folly Road bridge replacement contract to Cape Romain Contractors, Inc. of Wando, S.C. The contract replaces two very aged structures, one being an existing 850-foot bridge across Folly Creek, and the other a 1,050-foot bridge across the Folly River. Both structures were built nearly 60 years ago and are severely deteriorated, due to their age and exposure to the saltwater environment. The existing structures consist of precast octagonal concrete piles, a combination of steel and concrete beams and a reinforced concrete deck. The original plans and specifications called for Deep Soil Mixing (DSM), but Sonny DuPre, president of Cape Romain, sought to value engineer (VE) the scope of work for the bridge approaches. Read the full project spotlight in the Quarter 1 2014 edition of PileDriver magazine, and read a Q&A with Sonny DuPre in this issue, starting on page 66. $2 Million to $5 Million: Land – Cajun Deep Foundations, LLC, LSU Tiger Stadium South End Expansion Project

In March 2013, Cajun Deep Foundations, LLC completed the deep foundation piling for the expansion of one of the most storied and sacred structures in the state of Louisiana – LSU’s Tiger Stadium. Through the course of the work, Cajun’s project team and crews encountered some of the most difficult conditions imaginable, worked through a challenging pile design loading requirement and mitigated vibration adjacent to a 60-year-old structure. A testament to Cajun’s first class safety and quality cultures, the team successfully finished the project with zero safety incidents and a happy client. Read the full project spotlight, starting on page 72 in this edition of PileDriver magazine.

Minnesota Power (MN Power), an Allete Company, provides the majority of the electricity to customers and municipalities in northern Minnesota. In 2012, MN Power identified a need for a new bulkhead to be installed at its Boswell Energy Center Unit 4 facility, located in Cohasset, Minn. The plant itself was undergoing a $350-million retrofit project that would reduce mercury emissions from Unit 4 by more than 85 percent. The bulkhead needed to stabilize a weak lakeshore slope, as well as create a usable upland area for staging and plant operations. In 2007, PND Engineers, Inc. (PND) designed an Open Cell Sheet Pile™ (OCSP) bulkhead at a site adjacent to Unit 4. A 600-foot-long OCSP bulkhead was selected through a value engineering process as a more cost-efficient option, and construction was completed in 2008. In 2012, MN Power retained PND to provide design and related engineering services for the new bulkhead at Unit 4, which was completed in June 2013. The new bulkhead at Unit 4 is 725 feet long and required over 800 flat web sheet piles weighing about 875 tons. Read about the project’s challenges and PND’s solutions, starting on page 78. $500,000 to $2 Million: Land – Glenn O. Hawbaker, Inc., Tioga County U.S. 15 Soil Slide Repair

The Mill Creek Landslide occurred within the lower portion of the southbound roadway embankment of State Route 15, which is a heavily travelled, four-lane divided highway in Tioga County, Pa. The landslide occurred following snow melt and spring rains in 2011, and measured approximately 600 feet long and 300 feet in slope length. Although no damage to S.R. 15 was attributed to this landslide, the close proximity of the slide to the road posed a concern for the long-term stability of this section of roadway. Alternatives considered for slope stabilization included earthen toe berms with and without subsurface drainage elements, toe berms with and without vertical structural elements, and structural PILEDRIVER | 63

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elements with no berm. Various berm geometries were evaluated. The subsurface drainage elements were considered for reduction of excess pore pressures in the foundation soils, but were not recommended due to cost (sand columns) or questionable long-term performance due to clogging potential (wick drains). Vertical structural elements (e.g. auger cast piles and driven steel piles) were considered with and without the berm to assess the benefits of less site disturbance and restoration. Based on associated construction costs and site impacts of the stabilization alternatives, driving piles with no toe berm was the preferred remediation option. Read the full project spotlight, starting on page 84. Less than $500,000: Land – Desert Deep Foundations, LLC, Logan City Wastewater – Smithfield Lift Station Project

The Smithfield Lift Station Project consisted of constructing a new 4,000-square-foot sewer lift station. Located in Logan, Utah, the new sewer lift will replace an outdated and smaller (approximately 600 square feet) facility, which currently services portions of Logan City, and smaller outlying communities of Hyde Park and Smithfield. The Smithfield Lift Station is operated by Logan City and is a component of the Logan City wastewater collection system. In April of 2013, Desert Deep Foundations, LLC (DDF) was contracted by Spindler Construction to provide the design and installation of a temporary excavation support system that was nec-

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For the second year in a row, delegates and attendees were invited to vote on the project of their choice to receive the Project of the Year Members’ Choice Award. Who did the voters choose this year? Find out in the next edition of PileDriver magazine! t

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Q&A with Sonny DuPre of Cape Romain Contractors

Award-winning contractor takes home PDCA prize and pride in a job well done By Heather Hudson

hen Cape Romain Contractors won a $32-million bridge replacement contract, president Sonny DuPre was equal parts thrilled and concerned. The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) was a regular customer for the Wando, S.C.-company and they wanted to maintain their harmonious relationship. The prospect of replacing two crumbling structures – an 850-foot bridge across Folly Creek and a 1,050-foot bridge across Folly River – was no easy task. And the bid had a wrench thrown into it. In order to comply with new seismic design guidelines in the area, the original plan called for Deep Soil Mixing (DSM). “We were concerned about the original specifications that required a very specialized type of construction and a specialized contractor from out of state,” he said. “Soil mixing with cement concerned me in several ways: environmentally, project schedule, cost and just the overall feasibility of it.” When he proposed to value engineer with driven pile, the project took on a new life. Not only did it succeed with flying colors, it also won a PDCA Project of the Year Award in the largest category, presented at the annual conference on April 3 in St. Louis, Mo. Now that he’s had time to bask in the glow of a job well done, PileDriver spoke with DuPre about his critical decisions, challenges and the direction of his family business.

Congratulations on the win. You picked up the award at PDCA’s annual conference in April. How did it feel? It felt fantastic. We were very honored. Why did you decide to value engineer the project? Changing it over to value engineering allowed us to do the work with our own forces, which gave us better control. I knew that we would have time going in to perform all the engineering that needed to be done. We changed it from a process nobody had experience with – a new and complicated specification – into something much simpler. We’d been through [value engineering] with SCDOT before. Eight to 10 years ago, we value-engineered a bridge approach, changing it from stone columns to driven pile, and so I focused on that approach again. What were the interesting or unique aspects of the project? One of the noteworthy things is the environmental aspect of it. We were working out on a salt marsh causeway, which is a very, very environmentally sensitive area. Deep soil cement mixing produces a fair volume of waste material that we were concerned about. Driving the piles eliminated all of those environmental concerns. That was part of the decision-making process when it came to value engineering. Continued on page 69

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What were some of the challenges on the job? It’s a very tough site to access. We’re looking at a salt marsh causeway and very little room to work. That was a big challenge to us all along. You just have to very carefully coordinate what’s coming and going. You have to stay in constant contact with your project managers and superintendents about what’s coming and going. Did you have any favorite moments or days while you were on site at the project? I would have to say the day that we got the official notification that our value engineering proposal had been accepted by SCDOT. The process took so long and you don’t know it’s going to be approved until you get that letter. You hear all sorts of verbal stuff that things are going okay, but until you get that final notice you’re pretty nervous. We started breathing a lot easier and everybody was very excited about it. It meant that now we’ve got a bunch of work for our own forces and we feel like we just got a lot better job on our hands. What other PDCA members contributed to the project (equipment, materials, engineering, etc.)? Skyline Steel provided all of the HP piling that we drove. Palmetto Pile Driving helped us with delivery and logistics. And S&ME did a lot of our pile testing for the project. We have a good relationship with all of those companies. We’ve known them for a long, long time. We trusted them and knew they would do a good job and they were very interested in being involved. How does this project fit into Cape Romain’s scope of completed work? Bigger than most or average? This was one of the larger projects that we’ve completed. We are bridge and marine contractors, so about half of our workload is bridgework and the other half is what I would call marine construction work, like pipelines, piers, wharves and bulkheads. We do work in coastal North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, and this project was in the catchment area, so it was a natural fit for us. Why do you think this project won a PDCA Project of the Year award? Probably the biggest factor was the value engineering aspect.

“Changing it over to value engineering allowed us to do the work with our own forces, which gave us better control.” – Sonny DuPre, President, Cape Romain Contractors, Inc. How did you get into the pile driving business in the first place? Did you grow up knowing that this is what you wanted to do? Cape Romain is a family-owned business and I’m the third generation owner. I did grow up knowing I would take it over someday. I worked under my dad from 1988 until 2002 when he retired, and he’s taking a much-needed break now. I have a brother Andrew who is five years younger than I am, and he’s been working in the company for some time as well. What’s your favorite aspect about working in this industry? There’s such a wide range of people that you get to work with and we also get to work in some real pretty areas. We’re always out on the water. I love being anywhere along the coast, but the low coun-

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try of South Carolina is certainly at the top of my list of favorites. I really like working outside and not having to sit behind a desk all day. I spend about 25 percent of my time in the field and prefer to spend as much time there as possible. Has it been difficult to promote driven pile in South Carolina? Do you see the market opening up more in the future? Not really, thanks to a very strong South Carolina chapter of the PDCA. It was the first local chapter out there. We meet regularly and we work very hard at promoting driven pile any place we can. We’ve got a lot of people who have been doing it for so long and we have a lot of technical and historical info to back ourselves up, so it’s not a hard push and I definitely see it opening up further in the future. How can members of the industry better promote driven piling over other foundation construction methods? Probably put more of an emphasis on the engineering community and get them to specify driven piles. That’s what we try to concentrate on here in South Carolina – reaching out to the engineering community. They’re the ones specifying what type of foundation they want. We invite them to all our chapter meetings and stay in close contact with those guys and they’re usually receptive. We’re going to keep at it and reach out even more.

What’s next for Cape Romain Contractors? One interesting thing is we’re going to be involved in a soil improvement process that has to do with driven piles. It’s a test project that PDCA national and South Carolina will perform in Charleston starting later this year. It’ll be interesting to see how all of that goes. Otherwise, we’re pretty well staying the course right now. We’ve got lots of SCDOT work, port authority work and a few private orders. We may get into more design/ build work, but we’re satisfied with our customer base. t

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LSU Tiger Stadium South End Zone Expansion Project Cajun Deep Foundations, LLC took home the Project of the Year Award in the category of Land: $2 Million to $5 Million Submitted by Cajun Deep Foundations, LLC

n March of 2013, Cajun Deep Foundations, LLC completed the deep foundation piling for the expansion of one of the most storied and sacred structures in the state of Louisiana – LSU’s Tiger Stadium. Through the course of the work, Cajun’s project team and crews encountered some of the most difficult conditions imaginable, worked through a challenging pile design loading requirement and mitigated vibration adjacent to a 60-yearold structure. A testament to Cajun’s first-class safety and quality cultures, the team successfully finished the project with zero safety incidents and a happy client. Cajun, a Baton Rouge-based piling specialty contractor, contracted with the general contractor joint venture (JV) comprised of The Lemoine Company of Lafayette, La. and Brasfield & Gorrie of Birmingham, Ala. to design, test and install the pre-cast concrete pilings for the stadium expansion. LSU’s Tiger Athletic Foundation (TAF) is funding and managing construction of the Tiger Stadium South End Zone expansion, which aims to address Tiger fans’ insatiable appetite to be a part of the game day experience. Upon completion, the new “South Upper” will add 60 luxury seats, 3,000 club seats and 1,500 general public seats. The total stadium seating will be approximately 100,000 once the expansion is complete. Early involvement Cajun’s estimating team began working with the JV team during the summer of 2012, refining the piling scope and pricing. By engaging early, Cajun’s estimators were not only able to build a good relationship with JV personnel but also to provide crucial constructability feedback that helped all project stakeholders. The performance specification and pile concept issued by the engineer of record initially did not include a detailed pile to pile cap connection type. Cajun’s team recommended using grout tubes in lieu of a breakaway drive head or other connection methods, offering the most cost-effective and constructible option. Additionally, the fastpaced project schedule required that the piling contractor mobilize for the test pile phase very quickly after TAF gave the green light. Cajun was ultimately selected as the successful piling contractor,

likely due to both its thorough and competitive proposal as well as its responsiveness. The project management team was involved right away with TAF, the JV and the engineering group to set team goals and identify what each group required in order to ensure project success. Through this process, the stakeholders created a project slogan (including supplemental materials) that embodied the team goals and spirit of this marquee project. Pile design and test piles The performance specification for the project’s driven piles required 14-inch pre-cast concrete piles capable of a design compression capacity of 150 tons, tension capacity of 30 tons and a lateral capacity of 7.5 tons. Cajun was tasked with designing the pile to withstand the design requirements and testing the piles to prove capacity. By all accounts, requiring a 14-inch pile to support a 150-ton compression load was a tall order. However, Cajun’s engineer was up to the challenge. During detailed pile design, it was discovered that the preliminary pile to pile cap connection could not handle the lateral design load while maintaining the specified “fixed head condition,” requiring the top of pile to resist any lateral movement. Cajun’s solution was to install four 1.75-inch diameter grout tubes at the top of each pile, allowing a #9 bar to be grouted into the pile after installation and tied into the pile cap. However, to maximize pile productivity in the field, Cajun needed the ability to rotate the piles to any degree around the central axis. This required the pile designer to specify the 10-foot long grout tubes at the corners of the pile, outside the central reinforcing stand. This first-of-its-kind design challenged the pile fabricator to install the grout tubes perfectly straight. To work within the tight confines of the south end zone area, Cajun knew that joining two 60-foot-long pile segments would be the only way to install 120-foot-long piles. Cajun pioneered the use of a new type of pile splice to enter the market, the Emeca E-3. Offering a competitive option for tension splices which conform to the International Building Code (IBC), Emeca’s splice joins two pile segments with four steel locking pins. Pile driving stresses at the splice were monitored during the test pile phase to ensure the Continued on page 75

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drilling, given Cajun’s diesel hammer selection. Therefore, Cajun recommended dry drilling pile locations when vibration close to the existing stadium structure was of concern. Monitoring vibration was performed by Cajun and checked to ensure that excessive vibration did not damage the adjacent stadium structure, which was construction in 1953 on a shallow foundation system. The sky opens – maintaining a positive safety culture Cajun began driving production piles in November after LSU’s last 2012 home game. Although light rain pestered the crew during the first few weeks, it wasn’t until late December that the torrential rains began and site conditions deteriorated considerably. What began as a lush green lawn quickly turned into a mud pit, as underground utility relocation work and following the pile below grade disturbed the ground. Well above average rainfall was recorded in Baton Rouge from November to February and a rainfall record was set in January 2013. Despite the most difficult site conditions anyone could remember, Cajun’s two piling crews worked through rain and mud to keep the project moving forward. With conditions as challenging as they were, Cajun’s project team worked hard to maintain positive attitudes and the safetyabove-all-else culture with the crews. Regular lunchtime cookouts were held when weather permitted and on-the-spot safety incentives were awarded to crew members demonstrating a particular safe act or for recognizing/correcting hazards. Cajun strives to foster a family-type safety culture, whereby everyone feels empowered

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to look out for each other, recognize/correct unsafe conditions and put safety as priority #1. Stop Work Authority is emphasized, as employee acknowledgement and ownership of safe work is a central concept in Cajun’s safety culture. For example, at LSU, the crew used their stop work authority to fully evaluate the situation when it was discovered that an unknown utility was found. Another hallmark of the safety program utilized on the project was the mentorship philosophy. Each new employee (less than 90 days) was teamed up with an experienced employee. This program allowed new employees a chance to learn and succeed in their position, while being mentored by someone experienced in Cajun’s safety culture. In addition to training and maintaining a good focus on good task planning, the project team awarded the crew end of project safety incentives to reward them for working safe for the duration of the work. The workers’ consistent commitment to pre-task planning, hazard recognition and working together as a cohesive team all contributed to the project’s success of having not one single first aid case.

Success for Tiger Stadium’s South End Zone piling project resulted directly from the team’s commitment to safety, quality and the satisfaction of the client and the university. Out of site, not out of mind – maintaining project quality Although very hard pile driving was experienced due to dense sands at deep elevations, Cajun drove approximately 90 percent of the piles all the way to the intended top of pile elevation prior to the pile hitting refusal. Since the design top of pile elevation was between six and 14 feet below the ground grade, the crews had to use a steel mandrel to “follow” the piles below grade. Because the pile top could no longer be inspected for location, elevation or plumbness, Cajun’s QC supervisor/surveyor and crews had to be in lockstep to disengage the piling hammer at the proper time and to ensure that proper cushioning was maintained to prevent damage to the pile tops. To keep the piles on location, the team installed a steel pile gate system which mounted to the front of the pile driving leads. Lastly, to fully document the pile’s installation, Cajun employed two LSU construction management interns to log the piles’ blow counts, record elevations and track/trend the time spent installing the piles. Helping future leaders Through Cajun’s active involvemet with the LSU Construction Industry Advisory Council (CIAC), the project team hosted a jobsite tour for the construction management department’s deep foundations students. Our project manager and superintendent provided the group a “bird’s eye view” of the piling work from atop Tiger Stadium, while discussing the design and installation process with the students, likely future leaders of the industry. LSU’s instructor commended Cajun for the unique opportunity and helpful discussion. Achieving excellence in pile driving Success for Tiger Stadium’s South End Zone piling project resulted directly from the team’s commitment to safety, quality and the satisfaction of the client and the university. Cajun was commended by the board of the Tiger Athletic Foundation as well as from the Lemoine/Brasfield & Gorrie joint venture. Given the complexity and challenges that Cajun’s team overcame, the impeccable safety record and the positive relationships built with TAF and the JV, this project embodied a true spirit of excellence and was a showcase example of teamwork and success. Cajun reset the bar by demonstrating how a specialty piling contractor can persevere and keep a high-profile project moving while faced with difficult conditions. t 76 | QUARTER 2 2014

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Boswell Unit 4 Open Cell Sheet Pileâ&#x201E;˘ Bulkhead PND Engineers, Inc. took home the Project of the Year Award in the category of Marine: $2 Million to $5 Million Submitted by Jon Kesier, P.E., P.Eng., William F. Gunderson, III, P.E., P.Eng. and Matthew Anderson, P.E., PND Engineers, Inc.

Overview Minnesota Power (MN Power), an Allete Company, provides the majority of the electricity to customers and municipalities in northern Minnesota. In 2012, MN Power identified a need for a new bulkhead to be installed at its Boswell Energy Center Unit 4 facility, a 585-megawatt, coal-fired power plant located in Cohasset, Min. The plant itself was undergoing a $350-million retrofit project that, when completed, will reduce mercury emissions from Unit 4 by more than 85 percent. The bulkhead will be used to stabilize a weak lakeshore slope, as well as create a usable upland area for staging and plant operations. In 2007, PND Engineers, Inc. (PND) designed an Open Cell Sheet Pileâ&#x201E;˘ (OCSP) bulkhead at a site adjacent to Unit 4, known as 78 | QUARTER 2 2014

Boswell Energy Center Unit 3. A 600-foot-long OCSP bulkhead was selected through a value engineering process as a more costefficient option, and construction of this project was completed in 2008. PND was retained by MN Power in 2012 to provide design and related engineering services for the new bulkhead at Unit 4, which was completed in June 2013. The new bulkhead at Unit 4 is 725 feet long, and required more than 800 flat web sheet piles, weighing approximately 875 tons and which were purchased as unused material from a project that was never constructed. PND provided design, geotechnical assessment and engineering support during construction for the new structure. Built along the shoreline of marsh areas on Blackwater Lake

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Finalizing top of OCSP All photos courtesy of PND Engineers, Inc.

near the headwaters of the Mississippi River, the site has been constrained to any development due to challenging site conditions and permitting issues. To overcome the permitting challenges, PND developed a design that placed the face of the bulkhead along a varied shoreline alignment, which maximized the footprint of the developable upland. The nature of the OCSP system allowed the face of the wall to curve along the shoreline, keeping just inside the wetland-designated boundary. The next challenge was to contend with the underlying peat that reached a depth of over 40 feet in places. Removal of the peat allowed the placement of fill within the footprint of the bulkhead to limit settlement of the upland area that was created. The OCSP system allowed the use of borrowed fill material from a source

adjacent to the project site, thereby reducing transport costs. With the peat removed, the sheets were driven through the placed fill. Driving was consistent through the site, except in a zone approximately 120 feet wide. The sheets in four tailwalls encountered a hard layer at a depth of approximately 25 feet that abruptly stopped penetration for the sheets. PND was able to evaluate the capacity of the tailwall from driving records and quickly adjust the sheet number in the affected tailwalls. The contractor, J.F. Brennan Company Inc., served as the pile driving contractor on this job and was the contractor of record for the first bulkhead. They were not delayed and the project kept on track. The general contractor for this project was Northland Constructors of Duluth who subcontracted pile construction to J.F. Brennan Company. Continued on page 81

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Planning Early planning by the contractor included working with two crews, each starting at third points along the wall. This plan required precise driving and control to ensure that the sheets meeting in the middle of the wall could be threaded without binding. The plan kept the contractor on schedule and showed the flexibility of the OCSP system. The bulkhead was monitored for movement as each cell was driven, and records have been kept for over six months. Movement of the face wall has varied from six inches to 12 inches, which is in the predicted range for this height of wall. The bulkhead allowed the development of the maximum upland area along the boundary of the wetland area, and the flexibility of the system allowed the contractor to deal with the variable site conditions. Open Cell™ PND’s signature innovation to the industry of waterfront and overwater construction has been the development of Open Cell™ technology. Application of this technology has been key to PND’s clients achieving project cost-reduction goals. PND believes that this technology is widely adaptable for meeting challenges of difficult site conditions. In particular, the Unit 4 bulkhead illustrates how the Open Cell™ can be successfully used to solve problems at a challenging site. The Unit 4 bulkhead project represents a unique structure, not only in its effect on MN Power’s electric power operations, but also in the design and construction considerations. Due to varied and generally poor soil conditions, geotechnical investigations were necessary before a final design could be formed. The bulkhead was built using found materials from a shelved project, and this recycling rendered further value to the owner that may otherwise not have been possible. The ease of construction of this type of wall system enabled the contractor to rapidly construct the bulkhead. One impressive aspect of this project is the way that the new bulkhead could be integrated into the existing Unit 3 bulkhead. The two structures are joined by simply butting the end cell of the new bulkhead in a long arc that lies tangentially against the face of the existing OCSP bulkhead. This gravity seal between walls has been used by PND before and has proven to be a cost effective and

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timesaving method to continue a wall and allow expansion without complicated connectors. Meeting the challenges of a difficult job Geotechnical challenges PND reviewed existing bathymetric, topographic and geotechnical information, and performed preliminary and final design for the bulkhead. Based on the existing geotechnical data, it became evident during the initial design phase that a wide variability in the soils and their soil properties existed across the site. In addition, the existing boreholes were not located along the wall alignment, making it difficult to develop reliable subsurface predictions due to the variability of soil information between adjacent boreholes. Additional geotechnical explorations and testing were completed to verify assumptions made during the initial bulkhead design phase. PND coordinated and reviewed the additional subsurface explorations and laboratory testing, and prepared design modifications as a result of these investigations. Soft ground engineering Both initial and subsequent geotechnical investigations revealed the presence of soft materials, including clays and silt, but also very significant peat deposits. Throughout the site are interbedding layers of clays, silts and sands overlaying sand. Above these intertwined layers was a surface layer of peat. The thickness of this peat layer generally increased with distance from the lakeshore. In order to minimize settlements over the plan area behind the bulkhead, Burns & McDonnell developed a site grade plan calling for the removal of all peat. However, under this plan, areas in front of the bulkhead would retain significant peat deposits. The presence of this peat in front of the bulkhead posed design difficulties. Traditional methods for constructing bulkheads rely on the development of passive pressure at the bottom of the wall. An approach such as this would have necessitated deep penetration to reach competent soil layers. The OSCP system achieves its stability by reaching stable soils below the active soil zone behind the wall face. This was the natural solution for this particular site since soil beyond the wall face had limited potential for stabilizing the wall.

View of bulkhead face at the beginning of backfill operations

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$2m to $5m – marine

Scheduling and cost The permitting process delayed the installation for the project, putting the contractor into winter construction, along with a shortened construction window within the tight schedule. The contractor adjusted its plan to include multiple driving rigs and crews, as well as increased shifts to complete the work. PNDworked closely with the team and was available to make design modifications, such as the adjustments to the tailwalls. The close tracking of the work limited cost overruns due to delays in progress. Long-term settlement Settlement at the site where fill has been placed within the bulkhead footprint is expected over time. Because the OCSP bulkhead is a flexible membrane structure, the settlement of the structure will not affect the structural capacity of the system. The owner is monitoring settlement, and at the time of this writing, settlement has been very limited. Construction problems and creative solutions The primary limitation to the development of this site was the extensive amount of peat, which was formed across the project site. Peat presents the designer with a number of challenging issues. Some of the properties that make peat difficult to work with are the following: •• Peat has a unit weight very nearly equal to the unit weight of water •• Peat is highly compressible •• Peat has little reliable shear strength

PND’s signature innovation to the industry of waterfront and overwater construction has been the development of Open Cell™ technology. Peat deposits were relatively shallow in the region behind the bulkhead; however, these deposits increased in depth substantially further out beyond the lakeshore. This increasing depth of peat inhibited the development of stabilizing resistance from soil in front of the wall. The limitation imposed by the presence of this peat layer required that PND anchor the wall into soils behind the face of the bulkhead. As the Open Cell™ system consists of a series of interlocking sheet pile that are driven in circular arcs, it is ideal for stabilizing a wall in subgrade behind the bulkhead. These arcs form flexible membrane structures. Pressures behind the sheet piles resisted soil forces by mobilizing hoop stress in a manner similar to a closed cell structure. However, unlike closed cell structures, these face arcs do not close upon themselves, but are connected to tailwalls that are placed between adjacent arcs. These tailwalls transfer face arc hoop stresses to the stabile soils behind the bulkhead via friction and adhesion. Such a system was ideal for this site for a number of reasons. First, peat behind the bulkhead was to be removed. Therefore, reinforcement behind the bulkhead would not have to contend with the negative properties of peat. Second, since the bulkhead is anchored into soil behind the wall face, there is little need to have support outboard of the bulkhead. Third, as the soils behind the bulkhead consolidated under the weight of the new backfill, the shear strengths of the softer fine-grained soil deposits will increase. This will result in an increase in the factor of safety of the bulkhead over time. t

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he Mill Creek Landslide was located within the lower portion the southbound roadway embankment of State Route 15, which is a heavily travelled, four-lane divided highway in Tioga County, Pa. The landslide occurred following snow melt and spring rains in 2011, and measured approximately 600 feet long and 300 feet in slope length. Although no damage to S.R. 15 was attributed to this landslide, the close proximity of the slide to the road posed a concern for the long-term stability of this section of roadway. Alternatives considered for slope stabilization included earthen toe berms with and without subsurface drainage elements, toe berms with and without vertical structural elements and structural elements with no berm. Various berm geometries were evaluated. The subsurface drainage elements were considered for reduction of excess pore pressures in the foundation soils, but were not recommended due to cost or questionable long-term performance due to clogging potential (wick drains). Vertical structural elements (e.g., auger cast piles and driven steel piles) were considered with and without the berm to assess the benefits of less site disturbance and restoration. Based on associated con-

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struction costs and site impacts of the stabilization alternatives, driving piles with no toe berm was the preferred remediation option. Primary geotechnical factors affecting the selected stabilization technique included the length and depth of the failure plane, extent of soft glacial lake deposits and excess pore pressures in the foundation soils. Other considerations that made driving piles the preferred alternative and that reduced cost were: •• Minimizing environmental impacts to wetlands and habitat for the timber rattlesnake •• Reducing the loss of storage capacity of the adjacent Tioga Reservoir that needed to be offset elsewhere along the reservoir rim •• Minimizing restoration of slopes long the reservoir •• Eliminating the requirement to unearth an old farmhouse, which was an area of archaeological interest, by performing vibration monitoring during construction •• Utilizing the inactive roadbed of Old S.R. 15 along the toe of the embankment as the footprint and working platform for installation of the piles PILEDRIVER | 85

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The design required Grade 50 HP12x53 steel piles to be driven at six-foot-centers and in three and four rows along the toe of the embankment for slope stabilization. Design pile lengths varied between 35 and 55 feet. These lengths were estimated using a subsurface profile based on borings and geophysical data obtained from a Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) survey. The pile tips were required to extend beyond the failure plane and into competent material to resist lateral loads caused by slope movement. A test pile program was performed to verify the pile design lengths prior to procuring the project’s production piles and to also verify the pile hammer’s capacity, identify driving characteristics and allow for measurement of ground vibrations as they related to the archaeological area of interest. Production piles were specified to be driven their predetermined pile lengths or until absolute refusal was encountered. The pile lengths at the southern portion of the project site were increased from 35 to 40 feet as a result of the test piles. During production driving in two small areas, the pile driving records indicated that competent soil was deeper than anticipated, so an additional 10 piles, each 60 feet long, were incorporated into the project. Four hundred seventy-two piles were driven with a total 23,250 If = 1,232,250 Ibs. Grade 50 HP12x53, which required scheduling multiple loads delivered daily, totaling 29 truckloads. Pile driving was done with an 80-ton Link Belt 138 Hylab 5 with an ICE 1-19 diesel pile hammer. H-pile was supplied by Skyline Steel, a Nucor Company. t

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Logan City Wastewater – Smithfield Lift Station Project

Desert Deep Foundations earned a PDCA Project of the Year Award for its work in Logan, Utah By Eric Hendriksen, Desert Deep Foundations, LLC

he Smithfield Lift Station Project consisted of constructing a new 4,000-square-foot sewer lift station. Located in Logan, Utah, the new sewer lift will replace an outdated and smaller (approximately 600 square feet) facility, which currently services portions of Logan City, and smaller outlying communities of Hyde Park and Smithfield. The Smithfield Lift Station is operated by Logan City and is a component of the Logan City wastewater collection system. In April of 2013, Desert Deep Foundations, LLC (DDF) was contracted by Spindler Construction of Logan to provide the design and installation of a temporary excavation support system that was necessary to facilitate the construction of portions of the new sewer lift station. DDF contracted with GeoSysDesign (who recently merged with Gerhart Cole, Inc.) for the design of the shoring system. The design consisted of a 49-foot by 60-foot by 28-foot-dee p internally braced sheet pile cofferdam. The sheet pile cofferdam was required to minimize the extent of the excavation and to protect the existing lift station during the construction process.

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The project site is located just northeast of the Utah State University test site that is used for PDCA’s Professors’ Driven Pile Institute (PDPI). The location is known to have significant artesian groundwater pressures beginning about 35 feet below the existing ground surface. GeoSysDesign subcontracted with ConeTec to perform a CPT investigation to further quantify the artesian pressure. From this investigation, it was confirmed that the subsurface soils consist of very soft, lean to fat clay followed by sands and gravels. It was also found that the static ground water level in the upper clay soils was about three feet below the existing ground surface and that artesian pressure within the granular soils extended six to seven feet above the existing ground surface. Because of DDF’s experience in the area, the concern for basal heave failure due to the artesian pressure was considered during the shoring design process. Consequently, the general contractor made plans to mitigate this concern through an extensive dewatering system inside and outside of the excavation. Moreover, because of DDF’s early communication with the general contractor, owner and project engineer, several project Continued on page 91

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DDF understood the challenges and costs associated with the overexcavation and proposed a driven pile foundation system that was designed for both axial compression and upward loads. risks were identified and cost effective solutions were provided. After the completion of the CPT investigation, the project engineer determined that in order to mitigate the concerns with uplift of the structure, it would be necessary to over-excavate portions of the excavation as much as eight feet. DDF understood the challenges and costs associated with the over-excavation and proposed a driven pile foundation system that was designed for both axial compression and upward loads. The purpose of these efforts was to eliminate the over-excavation and to reduce the size of the temporary dewatering system. The owner accepted DDFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal and GeoSysDesign provided the design of a driven HP12x53 pile foundation system. The foundation was designed to be supported by 83 HP12x53 piles with lengths varying from 20 to 55 feet. The site conditions further contributed to the project being a challenging job. The very soft clay layer and shallow groundwater subsurface conditions resulted in very large loads on the sheet pile cofferdam. The sheet piles were supported by corner braces with a single center strut. The internal bracing was designed to provide the maximum working space while minimizing the size of the internal waler beams. Conflicts between the internal bracing of the earth retention system and installation of the driven foundation piles were an early concern in the design process. This concern was addressed through good communication and coordination with DDF, GeoSys Design and the project structural engineer. Such communication resulted in a layout of the foundation piles that did not conflict with the sheet piling and internal braces. DDF also took extreme care during the installation of the sheet piles and internal bracing in order to stay within the allowable construction tolerances that would have otherwise resulted in a conflict with the foundation pile layout. In addition, DDF used innovative and cost saving construc-

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tion methods for the sheet pile earth shoring system. Preliminary designs indicated the need for much heavier sheets, with up to five levels of bracing due to the high ground water levels on the site. DDF offered the general contractor and owners an optional design based on a lower ground water level, which was ultimately deemed to be more cost effective, even considering the cost of drawing down the ground water level across the site for the entire duration of the work below grade. Additionally, DDF recommended use of a double pipe strut system for the struts and cross braces instead of conventional and heavier wide flange beams. Even though the double pipe system was challenging to install, the steel pipes were readily available and more economical. Another challenge due to the site conditions was how to efficiently install the foundation piles through the upper soft soils and into the denser bearing layer. DDF overcame this challenge by using a Link Belt LS218-H100 ton crawler crane and an ICE IP3/DKH-3U hammer mounted in swinging leads. The variable energy hydraulic hammer efficiently installed the piles and was able to verify the required driving resistance during the dynamic load tests. The design of the foundation piles relied on the CPT data and the design axial load per pile, which resulted in a large variation in design pile lengths. GeoSysDesign performed dynamic load tests on several production piles to confirm that the design capacity was achieved. The dynamic testing identified several piles that did not achieve the required axial load capacities; however, additional length was added to these piles without much difficulty and minimal delays to the project. Due to the fact that the deep foundation consisted of driven piles, variations in the subsurface conditions were identified and quickly addressed. Driven piles were not only installed to support the deeper wet well foundation, but they were also installed to support the shal-

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< $500,000 – land

low foundations outside of the cofferdam in order to address the concern about differential settlement between the deeper wet well structure and the upper levels of the lift station. The change to a driven pile foundation resulted in a reduction in the required temporary dewatering efforts inside the sheet pile enclosure, eliminated the permanent dewatering requirement, reduced the risk of a basal heave failure and resulted in a tested foundation capable of resisting the large uplift forces. In summary, DDF met the challenge of this difficult job by communicating with the project team, by being proactive in the earth shoring design – which included performing additional subsurface investigations – and by using cost savings and value engineering methods in the design and construction of the sheet pile earth shoring system and the driven foundation pile system. Both the client and owner recognized the cost effectiveness of the driven pile foundation system and appreciated DDF’s quality of work and their ability to meet a demanding project schedule in a safe and productive manner. t

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more college students familiar with and inclined to promote driven piles once active in the deep foundation industry. The benefit to the student comes in the form of practical knowledge of the foundation industry, specifically driven piles, which he/she can utilize when performing or designing foundations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; this is a benefit to both interns and pile drivers. For coop students, the program also provides a convenient way for finding companies willing to provide a real-world workplace and professional support for gaining not only practical knowledge, but also college credit hours. PDCA benefits from the program by having practicing individuals in the pile driving and earth retention industries who become familiar with the association, creating a demographic of future members. PDCA has a member participant form available that companies can fill out, identifying available positions during the summer and/or fall of 2014. The form will include

all necessary information about the company and position to allow interested students to apply directly to the supporting company. PDCA will also provide submitting member companies with similar profiles, allowing the company to contact the student. The information provided by both PDCA member and student will help PDCA establish the connection between student and company. Company and student can then negotiate a short-term employer/employee agreement that is satisfactory to both. PDCA will only act as a facilitator, collecting member and student information and then passing that information along to the appropriate person(s) and/ or company(s). PDCA will not participate in any aspect of the hiring process â&#x20AC;&#x201C; this is strictly between employer and employee. Interested PDCA member companies can fill out and fax/email the accompanying form to the PDCA office. t PILEDRIVER | 95

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Pile Driving Terms and Definitions PDCA’s Technical Committee has produced a Pile Driving Terms and Definitions document – here are definitions N though Z. This document in its entirety is available as a free download from the PDCA website, www.piledrivers.org. Preferred terms are descriptively defined. Potentially synonymous (but not preferred) terms are identified with the nomenclature “Same as Preferred Term.” In this edition of PileDriver magazine, the PDCA continues through the alphabet with letters N-Z. Neutral plane – The location where equilibrium exists between the sum of sustained compression load plus dragload and the sum of mobilized positive shaft resistance and mobilized toe resistance. The neutral plane is also where relative movement between the pile and soil is zero. Pile, driven – A slender column, having a preformed shape and size, that can be inspected prior to and during installation, which is installed by impact hammering, vibrating or pushing into the earth and used to resist axial and/or lateral loads. Pile head – A pile’s uppermost end. Pile impedance (Z) – A material property of a pile cross section, determined as the product of the Young’s modulus (E) and crosssectional area (A), divided by the wave speed (c): Z = EA/c. Can also be determined as the product of the mass density (ρ), wave speed, and cross-sectional area: Z = ρcA. Pile point – A special type of pile shoe. Pile shaft – The portion of a pile between the pile head and the pile toe. Pile shoe – A separate reinforcement attached to the pile toe to facilitate driving, protect a pile’s lower end, and/or improve toe resistance. Pile tip – same as Pile toe. Pile toe – A pile’s lowermost end. Redrive – A substantial number of impacts, or a substantial time of vibration, which significantly deepens the pile’s toe elevation. Refusal – The driving condition evidenced by negligible set, associated with the hammer impact force being insufficient to overcome driving resistance; it is often associated with an equivalent blow count of approximately 10 blows per inch (10 blows per 25 mm). Not to be confused with Termination criteria. Relaxation – A decrease in pile capacity which occurs after driving (associated with decreased capacity at or near the toe). Replacement pile – A pile installed in another pile’s stead (e.g., when the original pile is unsatisfactory). Resistance – The sum of all mobilized forces (static and dynamic) that oppose a pile load.

Factored resistance (LRFD) – The nominal resistance multiplied by a resistance factor. Maximum driving resistance – The maximum (ultimate) soil and/or rock resistance during driving (the driving resistance in an upper layer may exceed the driving resistance at end of drive). Nominal resistance (LRFD) – The maximum (ultimate) load capable of being resisted, governed by the lesser of the geotechnical capacity or material strength limit. Equivalent ASD term: Capacity. Shaft resistance – The load resisted by a pile’s shaft; it must be less than, or equal to, the shaft capacity. Negative shaft resistance – Soil resistance acting downward along a pile shaft because of an applied tension (upward) load; it must be less than, or equal to, shaft capacity. Positive shaft resistance – Soil resistance acting upward along a pile shaft because of an applied compression (downward) load; it must be less than, or equal to, shaft capacity. Toe resistance – The load resisted by a pile’s toe; it must be less than or equal to the toe capacity. Resistance Factor – A multiplier applied to nominal resistance accounting primarily for variability of material properties, structural dimensions and workmanship, and resistance prediction uncertainty. Restrike – An impact, or limited series of impacts, to a previously driven pile to assess its capacity or integrity. Safety Factor (ASD) – 1. The ratio of usable geotechnical capacity to allowable geotechnical load. 2. The ratio of usable geotechnical capacity to design load. (see Commentary below for difference between allowable load and design load) Set – The pile penetration per hammer impact; can be derived from Blow count. Set-Up – An increase in a pile’s geotechnical capacity which occurs after driving (most-often associated with increased shaft capacity). Signal matching analysis – A rigorous numerical evaluation of the dynamic monitoring data from an individual hammer blow to

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estimate static pile capacity, relative soil resistance distribution, pile stresses, and dynamic soil properties, using pile and soil models (more-comprehensive than dynamic method of analysis). Skin friction – Soil resistance acting along a pile shaft, caused by soil moving relative to the pile shaft; it must be less than, or equal to, the shaft capacity. Negative skin friction – Soil resistance acting downward along a pile shaft, caused by soil moving downward relative to the pile shaft. Positive skin friction – Soil resistance acting upward along a pile shaft, caused by soil moving upward relative to the pile shaft. Termination criterion or criteria – Conditions which must be satisfied to allow field construction control to stop driving a pile (e.g., usually achieving a minimum equivalent blow count, evidencing a minimum dynamic monitoring estimated capacity, and sometimes achieving a design minimum embedment length due to lateral concerns, liquefaction, scour, settlement control, tension – there is a difference between estimated embedment length and design minimum embedment length).

Toe elevation – The elevation of a pile’s toe. Estimated toe elevation – The toe elevation at which it is estimated a pile will terminate. Maximum toe elevation– The highest toe elevation at which a pile can terminate and satisfy a certain design requirement (e.g., lateral concerns, liquefaction, settlement control, scour, tension). Toe plate – A plate attached to a pipe pile’s toe, making it a closedend pile. Toe resistance – Same as Capacity, Toe. Transferred energy – Energy transferred to the pile head; it can be determined as the integral over time of the product of force and velocity. Wave speed – The speed of strain propagation in a pile due to impact. Wave trace – A graphic representation against time of strain, acceleration, force or velocity in a pile due to impact. t

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Wave equation Generally, wave equation software is used to estimate the minimum blow

count needed to achieve the desired final capacity of a pile. For a design that is only concerned with the bearing capacity, this can work well; however, when the design is governed by uplift assumptions regarding the resistance distribution, additional assumptions must be made and when this changes, the model is no longer valid. An example of this is when two identical piles are installed in close proximity with equal embedment, soil and hammer energy and one has a significantly higher blow count than the other. Both the dynamic formula and a bearing graph would tell the designer that the pile with the higher blow count has the higher capacity, which is probably true. The problem for an uplift design is that this is most likely caused by the toe capacity being higher, either from an obstruction or toe plug, and the uplift resistance of the two piles is most likely similar. In this example, the resistance distribution has changed, making it difficult to correlate the uplift capacity from the blow counts alone. In many situations, blow counts can be misleading, caused by differences in transferred hammer energy, damaged piles and substantial differences between achieved and expected toe capacity. Dynamic monitoring Dynamic monitoring works by using an accelerometer and strain gauge located at the top of the pile to monitor forces and velocities traveling through the material. This data is received and monitored by a Pile Driving Analyzer (PDA). As the information is received and monitored real-time, it is also stored for post-installation analysis. Real-time information monitoring can also be provided to engineers located offsite. The post-installation analysis uses the Case Pile Wave Analysis Program (CAPWAP) and is a signal matching procedure which, based on top of pile force and velocity measurements during hammer impact, extracts static and dynamic soil resistances and parameters for pile shaft and pile toe. Continued on page 105

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his article will illustrate how dynamic monitoring can be used to reduce the cost of driven pile foundations, which are governed by uplift capacity in comparison to relying on conventional formulas and blow counts. The information gained by dynamic monitoring is generally only replaced by static load testing, which due to associated high cost, logistics and schedule delays, is commonly not carried out. As a result, engineers tend to lean toward a more conservative design. The introduction of dynamic monitoring can be related to when doctors were first able to use x-rays to look into the human body; engineers can now view and interrupt measured results of the location and magnitude of soil resistances along a pileâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s length and possibly improve the economics of the design while maintaining integrity. To support this argument, this article will use the findings of a transmission line project in East Central Alberta, Canada. Furthermore, the basics of dynamic monitoring will be described, and demonstrate how the results obtained can shorten required pile lengths and reduce the number of required piles, while maintaining a quality control process that engineers and construction personnel can use to evaluate the field results against the design specifications and capacities. The pile driving community will state that a driven pile is a tested pile; for economic and sustainable reasons this article hopes to demonstrate that when uplift forces govern the design, only a dynamically monitored pile is a tested pile. Many designs require the need to resist uplift forces and this extends to a variety of situations. Forces from wind heaving, frost heaving, expansive soils and overturning moments lead to design that must resist uplift forces and when this is the case, owners, contractors and designers should not rely solely on blow counts.

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CAPWAP analysis Structures Following the installation of a driven pile Options With Failing Splices Avoided Cost Savings that has been dynamically monitored, a Blow Counts CAPWAP analysis can be conducted based on the data of any single blow during pile Option 1 58 581 $3,573,150 installation. This post-processing proceOption 2 58 2212 $13,603,800 dure can be effective in evaluating the soil resistance distribution along the shaft and Table 1: Cost savings associated with elimination of splices at the toe, ultimately providing the ability to estimate the total bearing and uplift capacities, as well as solving for unknown No. of No. of Splices Option Cost Savings dynamic soil parameters. CAPWAP is an Structures Avoided effective and efficient method of simulatSplice ing a Static Load Test and has been shown 11 472 $2,902,800 elimination to compare very favorably to the Static Load Tests. Additionally, CAPWAP is a Table 2: Cost savings associated with elimination of splices when initial design depth was non-destructive and time efficient tool for greater than pile length determining capacities. Please note that this is a comprehensive software package that requires an in-depth understanding of soil dynamic properties and training from an the blow count or soil resistance to hammer distribution that best assists designers, projexperienced engineer. energy is generated from the toe resistance ects and owners alike. and what portion comes from the shaft Advantageous to dynamic resistance. Case study monitoring Dynamic monitoring and post-process- The following case study will highlight The wave equation software is fundamen- ing with CAPWAP software ultimately the methods, findings and advantages of tally correct, but for an uplift design, the provides engineers with the most valuable dynamic monitoring as applied to a transdesigner must assume a resistance distribu- information. This includes, but is not lim- mission line project in Western Canada. tion to correlate blow counts to an uplift ited to, resistance distribution, dynamic This project consisted of approximately capacity and if the distribution is incor- properties, impact energy, pile integrity and 641 towers and foundations covering a rectly assumed, the correlation is not valid. stresses in the pile. However, for uplift distance of 244km with over 10,000 piles. Essentially it is hard to tell what portion of design it is the evaluation of the resistance Foundations ranged from 12 to 64 piles

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per foundation, with up to four foundations per tower. At least one pile at each structure was dynamically monitored and analyzed with an additional 158 piles being re-struck to gain local experience for set-up factors of the varying soils for the vast range. Driving criteria were developed with the aid of geotechnical information, wave equation software and empirical formulas. Three cases are presented below detailing situations in which dynamic monitoring provided added value: •• A case where PDA information avoided additional piles or splices when blow count criteria was not met •• A case where the initial design called for splices, which were avoided by using PDA/CAPWAP analysis •• A case where blow counts passed but PDA data showed additional piles or splices were required as minimum capacities where not met

options: •• Option 1 – Splice only individual piles with failing blow count •• Option 2 – Splice all piles at each structure with at least one failing blow count The cost savings associated with avoiding either splicing option is presented below in Table 1. The presented savings are based on a unit cost of $6,150 per splice, including welding, material, labour and equipment cost. Case 2: Structures that initially called for splices In total, there were 11 structures that had an initial design, using empirical formulas, that required spliced piles to achieve depths greater than 17m. For these 11 structures, a hold point was established after all piles were installed to 17m. PDA data was then analyzed within 24 hours to determine if the splices were needed. Remarkably, all 11 structures passed minimum capacity, removing the requirement for splicing. In all 11 cases, splices would not have been avoided without PDA. The cost saving of these design changes are presented below in Table 2.

In all three instances, the PDA program aided the project by avoiding unnecessary piles/splices, switching more expensive and/ or labour intensive foundation types to driven piles and promoted a safer design by identifying piles with failing capacity, even when minimum blow counts and bearing capacity were met. This was accomplished by the ability to evaluate the resistance distribution Case 3: Structures that passed blow count criteria but failed to meet minimum capacity along the pile and at the toe. In addition to the savings that PDA and CAPWAP software provide to refining a design, they also help to promote a safe design Case 1: Piles with failing blow counts Without the use of PDA data, when a structure has a pile with by accurately estimating pile-soil resistance. For this project, 36 a failing blow count, the design team would specify either the structures had passing blow counts but upon CAPWAP analyinstallation of splices or additional piles. In most situations, splic- sis showed that the uplift resistances had not been met at design ing was specified for constructability reasons, leaving two splicing depth. Of these 36 structures, four of them required splicing of all

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the piles, as the capacities were much lower than design criteria and 32 of them were close to design capacity criteria and only required one to four piles added per structure. Case study conclusions The case study results document a clear picture: a large number of initial assumptions, capacity calculations and blow counts – derived from wave equation software, empirical formulas and geotechnical assessments – can prove misleading when comparing them to the uplift estimations of PDA and CAPWAP data. While some structures called for splices where the dynamic results suggested splices were not needed, others required splices to meet minimum uplift capacity even when the blow counts were high; countless more structures had failing blow counts that proved to meet design criteria. In addition, through the use of dynamic monitoring, all of the grillage and caisson foundations were changed to driven piles as a result of the integrity that could be accurately monitored. The ability to evaluate the resistance distribution with the use of PDA and CAPWAP software proved to be an instrumental part of this project’s success. Here, the PDA program’s success was compounded by the fact that only an exponential amount of time and money on static load test could have refined the design in a similar manner and that in general, blow counts, even when derived from wave equation software, are misleading when the design is governed by the uplift resistance. Summary In general, when an uplift design is not dynamically monitored (PDA), the design is generally governed by embedment depths and proven/expected unit resistances with the use of static load test. In this case, there are many unknown factors and assumptions that need to be made to competently correlate an uplift capacity to a blow count without using a larger factor of safety. This leads to a more expensive and lengthy project that still might have some piles with uplift resistances that do not meet design criteria. The case study presented in this article demonstrates, for uplift design, that dynamic monitoring provides more favorable and site specific or event information than blow count criteria, even when they are derived from wave equation software. When reviewing the results of the transmission line project, it is clear that without an integrated dynamic monitor-

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owned and operated industrial construction company for four generations, the company’s outstanding reputation and overall success has been made possible by the knowledge and efforts of their most important asset: their people. “Mason’s philosophy has always been to try and attract and develop the type of employees who are looking for a long-term career in construction, and not just a shortterm job,” said Le Short, vice president of field operations. “The vast majority of the company’s employees have well over five years of experience within the company, and many have cut their teeth in the construction industry right here at Mason, where they can eventually move up to craftsman level or supervision and management positions. It is not uncommon to see resumes of employees with 10, 20, 30 or even 40 years of experience with the company. In fact,

Mason’s leadership team, which consists of field foremen, supervisors and managers, has a combined 1,350 years of construction experience, all with Mason Construction.” Mason recognizes that the right combination of knowledge, skill, commitment and strong values are very hard to come by or take years to develop. It is because of this that Mason puts great effort in the development of long-term employees who thrive on building a meaningful career in the construction industry. In doing so, Mason has developed a loyal core group of skilled craftsmen, supervisors, managers and staff whose value cannot be matched. “Each one of these employees is a crucial component in the reputation that Mason has earned in safety, quality, performance and business integrity throughout its 75 years of service,” said Short. “The owners of Mason Construction value each member

of the team and consider them an integral part of the Mason family.” That philosophy is more than just talk. Since the company’s inception, the Mason family has rewarded the people who maintain the reputation of the company as a leader in its field. As a way of honoring the commitments of their employees to always give the best of themselves in the duties that they perform, the Mason family distributes bonuses and profit sharing to all employees that meet minimum man-hour requirements. Each year, roughly 40 percent of all profits earned by the company are distributed to its employees to acknowledge their contribution. “Sharing the fruits of our labors with each member of our team has been instrumental in maintaining an extremely capable workforce that consistently provides both our customers and the company with safe PILEDRIVER | 117

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and successful projects,” said Short. In addition to the four generations of the Mason family, a number of other employees have had multiple generations of family members working within the company over the years. Several employees have brothers and sisters, fathers and sons, and mothers and daughters working for Mason. One family has three generations of family members working within the company. Great support groups and resources are another thing that has made Mason so successful over the years. “We are grateful to have PDCA avail118 | QUARTER 2 2014

able to us as piling contractors,” said Short. “It offers us a real-time look into the current resources, tools and training available to the piling community.” Mason’s piling general manager, David Hudson, added, “PDCA membership also opens up the opportunity for us to communicate with other contractors and vendors as a group to discuss market trends, industry changes and explore future opportunities. We are in the business of driving piles on a daily basis, and are proud to be a part of an organization that supports the growth and development of our business and employees.”

Anniversary celebrations Very few companies have the opportunity to say that they have been in business for over 75 years. In fact, statistics show that less than three percent of family-owned businesses ever make it to the fourth generation. “We consider it a blessing to say that we have accomplished both,” said Short. “We could not have done it without the support of hard-working employees, vendors and our customers, most of whom are repeat business clients. It takes a solid team to make any business successful and this year we want to celebrate this milestone with those who make it possible for us.” This year, Mason will be rolling out several programs that will help celebrate the 75th anniversary, while tying them to the important philosophies of safety, leadership, teamwork and integrity. “The company will also be hosting a celebration with employees’ families, clients and vendors in November to commemorate the occasion,” said Short. “We will look back to the past to honor those who made all of this possible, celebrate the present by

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President: Chuck Mason Executive Vice President: Brad Mason Vice President of Administration: Chad Mason Vice President of Field Operations: Le Short Piling General Manager: David Hudson, PH.D Piling Field Operations & Equipment Manager: Lane Newell Piling General Superintendent: Jonathan Chandler Piling Project Manager/ Estimator: Jimmie Davis Piling Project Manager/ Estimator/ QA/QC: Daniel Gossett Corporate Safety Director: Dustin Rowe

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reflecting on how fortunate we have been in recent years and look ahead to the challenges of the future.” That future includes continuing to grow and develop Mason’s current workforce while focusing on building new leaders capable of maintaining the Mason heritage. “We are also committed to investing in new equipment, employee training and technology to help ensure that our workforce stays competitive and leads the way in terms of safety, quality, execution and installation options,” said Hudson, noting that future plans are also in the works to enhance the company’s capabilities for managing projects more efficiently outside of its local market. “We would also like to continue to be an active participant in the development phases of our customers’ projects to help them identify the most robust and cost-effective piling and foundation options. In this way, we can effectively support the constructability, scheduling and value engineering aspects of their projects to improve their bottom line.” t

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PILE DRIVING EQUIPMENT LIST It takes a lot of heavy equipment to get the job done, as can be evidenced by Mason’s extensive pile driving equipment list: • 2 Manitowoc 100-Ton Cranes • 2 Manitowoc 85-Ton Cranes • 1 Kobleco 60-Ton Crane • 2 Mantis 18-Ton Cranes • 3 Low Headroom Auger Cast Forklift Rigs • 5 APE Drills & Power Packs for Auger Cast Pile • 5 Olin Grout Pumps • 2 Stillwell Grout Pumps • 4 APE Diesel Hammers • 1 ICE Vibratory Hammer & Power Pack • 1 Excavator Mounted HMC MOVAX SP-80 Sonic Side Grip Vibratory Hammer • 4 Excavator Mounted Eskridge Helical Pile Drive Heads In addition to company owned equipment, Mason maintains longstanding relationships with multiple equipment vendors who can provide additional equipment to meet project requirements.

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Bedford Technology This innovative plastic lumber manufacturer and new PDCA member offers its products to a variety of markets

n today’s environmentally conscious world, plastic lumber products may not immediately come to mind for your construction project, but Bedford Technology begs to differ. For this Worthington, Minn.-based manufacturer of recycled products (that recently joined the U.S. Green Building Council), Bedford Technology services four main markets – marine, playground, parks and recreation and industrial, as well as agricultural and miscellaneous markets worldwide. “We manufacture recycled plastic

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products from high density polyethylene (HDPE) using three distinct processes to accommodate all product needs from nonstructural grades to highly structural grade products,” said Brian Larsen, CEO of Bedford Technology. “The two markets that drive the most volume are the marine market and playground market.” History Bedford Technology was formed in 1998 by Larsen and a number of other partners at the time, who chose the innovative route of taking a post-industrial waste stream and

molding it into plastic lumber. Today, Bedford Technology – which continues to be privately held – is headed by Larsen and Jeff Breitzman, who is chief operating officer. With three locations (two in Worthington, Minn. and one in Winchester, Va.) and more than 90 employees, the company has evolved into an industry-leading supplier of recycled HDPE plastic lumber products. “We can design a custom product to suit your specific application,” said Larsen. “We design with precision engineering, unique manufacturing techniques, creativ-

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ity and hard work. Our products have also replaced many traditional products, such as wood and metals for many different applications. For instance, plastic lumber is a great choice where sustainability is a concern. The product does not rot or decay over time. It can be manufactured in a specific color, to meet a manufacturing environment need or manufactured to a specific shape for a unique application.” When asked what the secret of Bedford’s success has been in such a competitive market, Larsen says it lies within the replacement of wood, steel, concrete

and other common materials that rot, decay, corrode and are attacked by insects, salt water, highly acidic and high moisture environments. “Wherever there is a wood application outdoors, recycled HDPE plastic products are [an alternative],” he said. Bedford has also been successful in separating itself from competitors due to its diversity and commitment to servicing our clients. “We are the only manufacturer to offer three different processes that utilize HDPE,” said Breitzman. “This diversity

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allows us to tailor our products to applications – both in design and mechanical properties.” Markets and applications Some of the many applications where Bedford’s products have been used in the pile driving industry include dock and pier fender systems, bridge pier fender systems, camels, backing beams/wharf logs, navigation aids and markers, guide walls, structural, retaining walls, locks, pedestrian bridges, wales, dolphins, clusters and piles. Other applications where Bedford’s Continued on page 123

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products are utilized include the industrial marketplace as cribbing, dunnage, equipment mats, pallets, speed bumps, guardrails, platform boards, pipe supports and air conditioning pads. “Over the last decade, we have seen the demand for recycled plastic grow based on an industry’s need for a long lasting and durable product,” said Breitzman. “Our product lines meet these needs in the marine environment: a product that is resistant to marine borers, extreme marine environments, the effects of ultraviolet light and, most importantly, is environmentally friendly.” Three processes are used to manufacture Bedford’s products. For example, the single stage extrusion (also called continu-

ous extrusion) is used for light structural applications, like outdoor furniture. “The major advantage of this process is the economical cost for high volume production runs,” said Breitzman. “Also, any length of the profile can be manufactured.” The multiple stage extrusion, also known as Multi-X, is used for large crosssectional, long-length products like SeaPiles and SeaTimbers. “This usually produces a skin of material on the product surface, which is different from the material at the core of the final product,” he added. The molded (or hard tool) process is used for structural applications, such as boardwalks and playground equipment. “The major advantage of this process

(molded) is that it can produce higher product strengths,” said Larsen. “The process is economical at low-order quantities, down to one.” One recent pile driving project for Bedford was last December. “Our last several hundred 70-foot and 80-foot 13-inch diameter SeaPile® were loaded via railcar and shipped from Bedford Technology’s Winchester, Va. plant to Port Aransas, Texas,” said Larsen. “These SeaPile® were joined together into dolphin clusters used to guide ferry barge traffic between the Port Aransas terminals. Both SeaPile® and SeaTimber® are used throughout marine applications worldwide as bridge protection fenders, dolphin clusters, guidewalls, wales, navigation markers, bullrails PILEDRIVER | 123

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and various other applications.” PDCA membership and the future Bedford Technology recently joined the Pile Driving Contractors Association “largely to continue the education of specifiers to our brands: SeaPile, SeaTimber and SeaCamel, which have been used throughout the marine marketplace by pile driving contractors worldwide for over 20 years,” said Breitzman. “The education then extends to the use of all our recycled HDPE plastic lumber products for site use on platforms, construction mats, cribbing, site markers, etc.” 124 | QUARTER 2 2014

While the past few years have been tough for many companies, Bedford has enjoyed doubledigit growth year after year, even through the Great Recession. “This due to the ‘green’ aspect of our product and its endless use throughout many markets and applications,” said Larsen. “We look to continue our explosive growth well into the future as we educate key specifiers on its benefits and potential uses. With three processing techniques and significant capacity, we are well positioned for long-term company growth.” t

With its mission to be an “industry leader delivering ‘best-in-class’ customer satisfaction and superior value through innovative, high performance recycled plastic products across unique product, market and distribution channels worldwide,” Bedford Technology definitely delivers. Its reputation remains strong as one of the most experienced and reliable manufacturers of recycled plastic products in North America. Here are some other details about one of PDCA’s newest members: • Corporate structure: Privately owned • Formed in 1998 • Three locations in Minnesota and Virginia • Number of employees: 90 • Markets served: Marine, industrial, playground, parks and recreation • Member of U.S. Green Building Council Visit www.plasticboards.com for more information about Bedford Technology.

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idnight suns, lobster boats and rugged volcanic ranges don’t sound like typical work environments for a multi-disciplinary consulting firm in the construction world. GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc. puts their clients’ needs at the forefront of every project, even if that means following them around the globe. Budding incorporations in all walks of business could learn something from GZA’s 50-year stint, a milestone they proudly reach this fall. The firm credits their long-term success to simple core structures, the first being the proper treatment of their affiliates. But it’s not just about treating clients and employees respectfully – it’s about going above and beyond, the way you would a family member. Their services and relationships exceed solely professional care, but individual, personal judiciousness as well. One thing that separates GZA from its competitors is its Contractor Support Group, which has been providing professional support services solely to contractors since GZA’s inception. Support of Excavation design (SOE), foundation design, founda-

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tion testing (PDA, CSL, static), noise and vibration monitoring, structural construction engineering and contaminated materials management are just a few of the core services GZA provides. Managed by Bradford Roberts, P.E., a principal at GZA, the Contractor Support Group consists of 27 engineers within the 520 employees. Roberts’ group focuses on providing client satisfaction, personal attention and the delivery of excellence to its contractors. “We want to expand our Contractor Services footprint out of New York and New England,” said Roberts. “We will follow our clients anywhere. We want to extend beyond where we have gone.” It’s impossible to ignore GZA’s passion when they’re busy following companies such as Pacific Pile & Marine (a West Coast contractor) to the Aleutian Islands for dynamic pile testing. Or when they find their sea legs aboard lobster boats for dynamic pile testing in Maine. GZA has 25 offices located throughout the United States, housing offices in the northeast, the Great Lakes, the Appalachia, and the greater New York (mid-Atlantic) region. They have cov-

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ered all of the U.S. and are beginning to focus on reaching an international market. And with employees as diverse as wetland specialists to geotechnical engineers, GZA makes sure they have the professionals handy that best fit their clients’ needs. Which is exactly why CEO William Hadge stays at his office after hours to work on his thank you letters to his employees and clients. His team is large, but they are hardworking, focused and, most importantly, proactive. The pristine track record of take-charge proactivity is Hadge’s proudest characteristic of GZA. “We want our people to anticipate – to be proactive,” he said. “We search for those people and we talk about this core concept before we even hire a potential new employee. We explain that it’s simple: here is how you advance in this company – and that is through having the right type of personal energy.” Hadge became CEO in March of last year and began his 35-year trek with GZA back in 1979, when the company was comprised of a fraction of its current size. After spending so many

years aboard the GZA team, he was happy to confess that many of the people he started with continue to work there. “It sounds cliché, but it’s a great place to work. We’re a family. We grew fast in the '80s and '90s,” he said. “And if the most significant event of GZA was founding it in 1964, and its quick growth is the second, then the third most significant event is when we took the company private in 2000.” Among the 520 employees, GZA is comprised of an internal board of directors, to which Hadge reports, after overseeing the 75 principals, such as Roberts, who each have leadership roles within the company. “Since we are employee-owned, our client relationships go beyond business,” said Roberts. To celebrate their strong internal structure and longevity, GZA is gearing up for its celebrations in October of this year through a gala in Boston. In sticking with the family mindset, GZA feels behooved on planning and executing charitable community events, be that cleaning up a river or help building a park. “We want to do some type of community involvement so we

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can show our appreciation by giving back to the communities that have helped us. It’s a sort of ‘thank you for helping us come so far,’” said Hadge. Amidst the celebratory planning, GZA is hard at work on the Tappan Zee Bridge along the Hudson River in New York. The national project will hopefully garner national recognition as well, as one of the most sizable infrastructure projects currently happening in the country. In order to replace the Tappan Zee Bridge, GZA is facilitating a geotechnical exploration program on the land and water, and designing, inspecting GZA has 25 offices throughout the U.S. with a project blueprint covering the country and testing (PDA and CSL) the bridge’s new foundations. Bridge project as well as such accolades as winning the PDCA In the late 1970s, GZA was the first company to provide Project of the Year Award in 2010 for the Brayton Point closed dynamic pile testing services in New England. Since then, they have loop-cooling towers, a Kiewit project with 1,700 precast, preprovided such services on thousands of projects. stressed concrete piles. All of GZA’s dynamic pile testing equipment is manufactured “It’s our culture to emphasize accountability, to take initiatives by Pile Dynamics, Inc. They use the PAX model, a dynamic pile and – of course, my favorite word – proactivity,” said Hadge. “We analyzer that evaluates the capacity of driven piles, pile integrity, are a culture that is based on respecting the freedom of the indidriving stresses and hammer energy during pile installation. viduals in the workplace. And they do a great job because of it.” t Their notable track record earned them the Tappan Zee Photos courtesy of GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc.

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While the bidder bears the risk of assumptions, for affirmative statements, the bidder will be allowed to rely on them if his bid is affected by a site condition differing materially from those indicated in the soils borings. Most importantly, these cases tend to reward the vigilant, not the passive.

ost public works specifications contain a disclaimer clause, and a site inspection clause. The disclaimer clause typically states that the geotechnical report is provided but not a contract document. The site inspection clause usually says it is the contractor’s responsibility to familiarize himself with the site, and adds that the contractor will be held to all known conditions, and any other conditions that could be discovered by a reasonable inspection. Often, the language can read even stronger – no claims or change orders may be asserted for conditions based on either the geotechnical report, or upon conditions that were discernable from a site inspection. The case US v. Spearin (1918) 248 US 132 laid down the law regarding affirmative representations in soils reports – that they basically cannot be disclaimed. While the bidder bears the

risk of assumptions, for affirmative statements, the bidder will be allowed to rely on them if his bid is affected by a site condition differing materially from those indicated in the soils borings. Where this often becomes challenging is not in the borings themselves – if the contractor encounters bedrock at 10 feet, not 100 feet as represented, that is the easy case. Rather, it is in the instance where the narrative in a geotechnical report suggests an interpretation to the borings – can the contractor rely on that? Here is how some court cases define this. In Spearin: “This responsibility of the owner [for plans and specifications] is not overcome by the usual clauses requiring builders to visit the site, to check the plans and to inform themselves of the requirements of the work…” Spearin relied on US v. Christie (1915) 237 US 234, which noted that the positive representations of the soils boring regard-

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ing river conditions misled the contractor performing sheet pile work (then, with wooden sheets) in a river. The Supreme Court rejected the government’s argument that the contractor could have done his own borings, noting the lack of adequate time to do so: “There were representations made which were relied upon by claimants, and properly relied upon by them, as they were positive. (Hollerbach v. United States, 233 U.S. 155.) Besides, it was admitted at the argument that time did not permit borings to be made by claimants. We think it was error, therefore, to have disallowed the damage resulting therefrom.” Many cases rely on Spearin for these two basic principles – that the owner bears the risk of errors in the plans, specifications and soils borings; and the contractor’s right to rely on the positive statements in those documents in bidding are not overcome by disclaimers, or site visit requirements. Of course, this does not mean the contractor can skip the site visit; that will be an invitation for denial of a claim and the court to say, “Tough! Maybe if you did an inspection, you would have bid it differently.” Now, almost 100 years later, court language helpful to the pile driver has emerged in Metcalf Construction Co. v. US, a February 2014 decision involving a design-build contract to construct 212 housing units at a Marine Corps base on Oahu, Hawaii. The government provided a pre-bid soils report, but indicated that the contractor awarded the project would be expected to conduct their own, post-award geotechnical investigation. During bidding, Metcalf inquired if a change order would be available under the differing site conditions clause of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) if the later soils report indicated materially different conditions. Here is what the court wrote, the contractor’s question for clarity and the court’s final response: “The government made clear that its pre-request soil report was not to be the last word on soil conditions for purposes of the project. A revised request for proposals stated that the requirements in the ‘soil reconnaissance report’ were ‘ for preliminary information only.’ The resulting contract required that the contractor conduct its own independent soil investigation, and it incorporated Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.236132 | QUARTER 2 2014

2, 48 C.F.R. § 52.236-2, which concerns site conditions that differ materially from those disclosed in the contract. Even before potential bidders had submitted proposals in response to the request, the government had clarified, in a publication written in question-andanswer form, that the contract would be amended if the contractor's post-award independent investigation turned up soil conditions significantly different from those described in the government's report. Q15: . . . This requires an independent investigation after award. . . . Should we infer from this that any unforeseen soil conditions or variances from the government's soils report will be dealt with by change order? Answer: Yes, if there's a major disparity from the government's soil reconnaissance report.” Well – you guessed it – the later soils report by the awarded contractor reflected changed conditions. The government’s early soils report indicated that the soil was “slightly expansive” but in reality, it was very expansive clay and this required costly adjustments to concrete foundations to avoid heave. The government denied the claim on the theory that the work was design-build, and that “slightly expansive” was an adequate indication of what was ultimately encountered. The government’s report indicated the soils were slightly contaminated but at levels not requiring remediation – wrong again, it turns out. In a very refreshing, and clear opinion, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeal (in Washington, D.C.) expressed the historic concepts of Spearin – the implied covenant of accuracy of plans and specifications – using the more general “implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing” that resides in every contract, that each party will not only abide by a contract’s terms, but do so in a way not to frustrate the other party’s legitimate expectations. Here is what the court said about the issue – that the requirement on the contractor to perform further site investigation did not nullify the differing site condition clause: Continued on page 134

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“The trial court interpreted the pre-bid site representations and related RFP provisions to be nullified by Metcalf 's investigative responsibilities during performance. With respect to expansive soils, the court held that a reasonable contractor reading the contract documents as a whole would not interpret them as making a representation as to the site conditions because "the Contract required Metcalf to conduct an independent soil analysis [and so] Metcalf was on notice that it could not rely on the 'information only' report" (Metcalf, 102 Fed.Cl. at 354). Metcalf was entitled to rely on the report ‘ for bidding purposes,’ the court said, but not ‘in performing the . . . project’ (Id.). Analogously, with respect to chlordane, the court held that the fact that Metcalf would itself need to assess the soil meant that Metcalf could not rely on the representations that remediation was not required; the company ‘was on notice to seek more information’ (Id. at 358-59). The court thus treated the contract as placing on Metcalf the risk and costs of dealing with newly discovered conditions different from those stated by the government before the contract became binding. These rulings about an important allocation of risk were based on a misinterpretation of the contract. Nothing in the contract's general requirements that Metcalf check the site as part of designing and building the housing units, after the contract was entered into, expressly or implicitly warned Metcalf that it could not rely on, and that instead it bore the risk of error in, the government's affirmative representations about the soil conditions. To the contrary, the government made those representations in the RFP and in pre-bid questions-and-answers for bidders' use in estimating costs and therefore in submitting bids that, if accepted, would create a binding contract. The natural meaning of the representations was that, while Metcalf would

investigate conditions once the work began, it did not bear the risk of significant errors in the pre-contract assertions by the government about the subsurface site conditions.” And, regarding any risk shift from site inspection, the court took a common sense view that site inspections are mainly about identifying access, lay down and staging areas and general orientation, and do not eliminate the contractor’s right to rely on the government’s affirmative statements about hidden, subsurface and soils conditions not obvious to the eye: “FAR 52.236-2, incorporated into the contract, reinforces that meaning. It exists precisely in order to ‘take at least some of the gamble on subsurface conditions out of bidding’: instead of requiring high prices that must insure against the risks inherent in unavoidably limited pre-bid knowledge, the provision allows the parties to deal with actual subsurface conditions once, when work begins, ‘more accurate’ information about them can reasonably be uncovered (Foster Const. C. A. & Williams Bros. Co. v. United States, 435 F.2d 873, 887 (Ct. Cl. 1970); see also H.B. Mac, Inc. v. United States, 153 F.3d 1338, 1343 (Fed. Cir. 1998)). For that reason, even requirements for pre-bid inspection by the contractor have been interpreted cautiously regarding conditions that are hard to identify accurately before work begins, so that ‘the duty to make an inspection of the site does not negate the changed conditions clause by putting the contractor at peril to discover hidden subsurface conditions or those beyond the limits of an inspection appropriate to the time available’ (Foster, 435 F.2d at 888; see also, e.g., Hollerbach v. United States, 233 U.S. 165, 170-71 (1914)).”

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What does this mean for the pile driving contractor? The Metcalf decision is good news for the construction industry. It re-affirms the 100-year-old legacy beginning with Hollerbach, Christie and Spearin that contractors can rely on what the government says about soils conditions, and recover for extra work caused by materially different conditions encountered. By going one step further, and using the “covenant of good faith and fair dealing” to also explain its thinking, the court in Metcalf has expressly invited a fairness inquiry into interpreting government contracts. To be sure, that is limited by context and specification language, but where the risk is allocated to the owner, the Metcalf is a good “go-to pitch” for the contractor harmed financially by either changed conditions or a refusal of the government to acknowledge changed conditions. Most importantly, these cases tend to reward the vigilant, not the passive. The contractor in Metcalf asked formal pre-bid questions to the government, and got answers back that the court quoted – that if conditions changed, a change order would issue. The result may have been different if the court did not have that added fact to tell the government that there was nothing unfair to holding the government to its word, in the bidder’s inquiry responses. There is no doubt that with geotechnical technology and borings being easier to accomplish, we may see a trend of owners requiring contractors to do their own soils investigations, as a bid item or before bid. There is already a trend, pushed back a bit by the Metcalf decision, suggesting that contractors today bear all the risk for site conditions except in the most extreme cases. To protect legitimate price-point expectations at bid, the contractor should work up the bid with clear back-up about how the geotechnical report affected price, pile length or type and productivity assumptions. The contractor should highlight that report and ask questions formally where there is doubt. Such will come in handy later – as Metcalf demonstrates. It’s nice to know courts get it. t

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Texas Supreme Court Gives Win to Contractors on Issue of Insurance Coverage for Construction Defects

By C. Ryan Maloney, Foley & Lardner LLP

f you read your edition of PileDriver for the fourth quarter of 2012, you may remember an article1 addressing a pending decision by the Texas Supreme Court that had the potential to drastically limit the scope of insurance coverage for claims of defective construction work in Texas under the standard Comprehensive General Liability (CGL) insurance policies most commonly used in the industry. Since that article, the Texas Supreme Court recently issued its decision on January 17, 20142 . In a big win for contractors, the court decided to reject the broad interpretation of the standard contractual liability exclusion in CGL policies sought by the insurance company that would have resulted in the effective elimination of insurance coverage for any construction defect claims in Texas.

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Because the contractor’s express agreement to perform the construction in a good and workmanlike manner in the construction contract did not add to its obligations under general law, the court held that it was not an “assumption of liability” within the meaning of the contractual liability exclusion in the CGL policy. As background, it should first be understood that CGL policies do not always provide coverage for property damage resulting from faulty construction work. Often, this is because defective work is either not considered to be an “occurrence” triggering coverage under the policy, or if it is considered an “occurrence,” the standard “your work” exclusion in CGL policies, which excludes coverage for “[w]ork or operations performed by or on your behalf,” is applied to exclude coverage. However, in a growing number of jurisdictions, including Texas, defective work may be considered an “occurrence” under the

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policy for which there may be duty to defend or provide coverage depending on the application of other exclusions and exceptions in the policy to the particular facts and circumstances3. However, in June 2012, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal appellate court covering Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, issued a ruling in Ewing Construction Co. v. Amerisure Insurance Co.4 that would have drastically changed the scope of such coverage under CGL policies in Texas. In Ewing, the insured contractor had contracted with a school district to construct tennis courts at a school. Soon after the tennis courts were completed, they started cracking and flaking, rendering them unfit for tennis. The school district sued the contractor for breach of contract and negligence alleging defective work by the contractor and/or its subcontractors. Because the allegations by the school district included claims of defective work by subcontractors, under prior law in Texas, this would have triggered the subcontractor exception to the “your work” exclusion in the CGL policy and created at least a duty for the insurer to defend the contractor5. However, the insurer denied coverage, relying on the standard contractual liability exclusion in the CGL, which excludes coverage for “damages by reason of the assumption of liability in a contract or agreement.” The Fifth Circuit in Ewing agreed with the insurer, holding that by entering into a contract to construct the tennis courts, the insured contractor had by definition “assumed liability for defective construction” and therefore triggered the contractual Continued on page 141

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tractor, so the exception for liability the contractor otherwise would have had absent the contract did not apply. In short, the Fifth Circuit’s Ewing decision significantly expanded the effect of Gilbert and the contractual liability exclusion in the CGL policy to essentially preclude coverage in Texas for any defective construction work if the work was performed pursuant to a construction contract, thereby also rendering the “your work” exclusion and “subcontractor” exception to the exclusion in the CGL policy meaningless in most cases. As recognized by the dissenting judge in Ewing, this represented a significant expansion of the contractual liability exclusion and a significant change in Texas insurance law7. On August 8, 2012, recognizing that its opinion raised important issues of Texas law that could have a significant

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impact on insurance law and the bargained for expectations of parties to CGL polices in Texas, the Fifth Circuit withdrew its Ewing opinion from June 2012, and certified the issue to be decided by the Texas Supreme Court8. Almost a year and a half later, on January 17, 2014, the Texas Supreme Court answered the certified issue from the Fifth Circuit in its Ewing Construction Co. v. Amerisure Ins. Co. opinion, and decided that the contractual liability exclusion did not apply to bar insurance coverage for the contractor. The court explained that the contractor’s agreement to construct the tennis courts in a good and workmanlike manner in the construction contract did not enlarge the contractor’s obligation under general law to comply with the contract’s terms and to exercise ordinary care in doing so. Because the contractor’s express agreement to perform the construction in a good and workmanlike manner in the construction contract did not add to its obligations under general law, the court held that it was not an “assumption of liability” within the meaning of the contractual liability exclusion in the CGL policy. Because of this, the court held that the contractual liability exclusion in the CGL policy

did not apply to bar the insurer’s potential duty to defend or provide coverage to the contractor for the alleged construction defects under the CGL policy. The Texas Supreme Court’s decision in Ewing represents a big win for contractors because if it had agreed with the Fifth Circuit’s prior broad interpretation of the contractual liability exclusion, the result would have effectively eliminated insurance coverage for any construction defect claims in Texas. Instead, the Texas Supreme Court’s construed the exclusion in a more limited manner that preserved the existing potential for insurance coverage for construction defects under certain circumstances. Not only is this important for contractors doing work in Texas, but it is also persuasive authority for courts in other states counseling in favor of a more contractor friendly interpretation of standard CGL policies9. t C. Ryan Maloney is a partner in Foley & Lardner LLP’s construction practice and is Board Certified in Construction Law by the Florida Bar. He may be reached at cmaloney@foley.com or (904) 633-4713.

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The article was entitled Changes to Comprehensive General Liability? Ewing Const. Co. v. Amerisure Ins. Co., 420 S.W.3d 30 (Tex. 2014). See Lamar Homes, Inc. v. Mid-Continent Casualty Co., 242 S.W.3d 1, 4 (Tex. 2007). Florida is another state in which the courts have found that defective work can constitute an “occurrence” under the CGL policy that may allow for a duty to defend or coverage under certain circumstances. See United States Fire Ins. Co. v. J.S.U.B., Inc., 979 So. 2d 871 (Fla. 2007). Ewing Const. Co. v. Amerisure Ins. Co., 684 F.3d 512 (5th Cir. 2012). It might have also created a duty to indemnify the contractor for damages caused by defective subcontractor work, but only to the extent determined by proof in the case. Gilbert Texas Construction, L.P. v. Underwriters at Lloyd’s London, 327 S.W.3d 118 (Tex. 2010). Ewing, 242 S.W.3d at 527, n.6 (dissent). Ewing Constr. Co. v. Amerisure Ins. Co., Case No. 11-40512, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 16493 (5th Cir. Aug. 8, 2012). Of course, because the laws vary by jurisdiction and every situation is unique, always consult an experienced construction attorney regarding any specific questions regarding insurance coverage for construction projects.

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hat Ray Sciahetano lacks in age, he makes up for in confidence. The 45-year-old may be one of the youngest VPs in the industry, but he’s certainly one of its most driven. “I want to run things. I don’t want to wait 10 years and I don’t think I have to wait 10 years.” Hungry for success, Sciahetano hit the ground running when he graduated from the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s civil engineering program in 1993. He worked for a civil/geotechnical engineering company for five years before setting his sights on the more fast-paced construction industry. “There was more responsibility to be taken on and I was intrigued,” he Ray Sciahetano, Vice President, Marine Division, EIC Associates, Inc. said. It was from there that he moved into marine work with ing on the marine division, Sciahetano had brought in about Agate Construction, where he worked his way up to becoming $66 million in business with two challenging projects. one of the youngest project superintendents in their satellite “I remapped the whole division and just went for it,” he North Jersey office. Keen to round out his resume, after five said. years he moved on to work for a utility company. Repairing piers around the Statue of Liberty after “With construction, there are a lot of different specialties Hurricane Sandy damage last spring was a project not everyand I wanted to get experience in everything. Depending on the one was willing to bid on. The schedule was intense – six to market, I could move into any kind of work.” seven weeks to do the first $10 million of work – and the eyes A few years of commercial construction work were enough of Washington, D.C. were upon them. “Members of Congress, for him before he made his way back to marine work as a project the Secretary of the Interior came out. It was very high profile.” manager/estimator for Trevcon Construction. The first phase of the job entailed reconstruction a 275Until 18 months ago, that is, when he got the offer he’d foot long pier consisting of 45-foot long fiberglass piles with been waiting for. timber pile caps, stringers and deck reconstruction. There were EIC Associates, Inc. in Springfield, N.J. had a boom- a number of stressful moments, including the delay of a highing civil heavy construction division, but they were looking to quality timber from South America, which Sciahetano overexpand their marine division in a big way. They needed some- came by buying overstock from a competitor. one focused, ambitious and eager to be a success. “We worked 80-90 hours a week, got it open on time, made “They offered me something no other company has in the money and it was successful.” past: an opportunity to take a position, make it my own and, if He says the secret to the success of that project – and othI proved myself, I could be a VP. ers big and small that he has and expects to take on – is his “Typically, you get from owners that you’re too young, you unwillingness to accept something can’t be done. need more experience, but I’ve always performed and I just don’t “Every problem does have a solution,” he said. “A lot of peobuy that. [EIC owners] Andre B. Ameer and Joseph Branco ple don’t want to take the more difficult road, but you’re never had a different mindset. They said, ‘We’ll let you go build and going to be great if you don’t.” expand the marine division of the company, plus give you the The other big project that’s still in progress is the Runway due credit if that happens.’ And that’s what I’m doing.” Deck Extensions at LaGuardia Airport. Sciahetano says he was It was a gamble worth taking. Within three months of tak- proud to beat out his main competitors and former employer on PILEDRIVER | 145

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that bid, with whom he left on friendly terms. “It was a redeeming moment.”

“I want to run things. I want to be the youngest president in the industry out there. I don’t want to wait 10 years and I don’t think I have to wait 10 years.”

Passion for the industry “I love marine work because I think it’s the most difficult. When you’re working with tides, over water where most things are unseen, you have to be ready for anything. I can’t think of one job that’s exactly the same as the next. A lot of people can talk a good game, but this is one industry where you really have to be able to back yourself up and that’s what I like about it.” Indeed, Sciahetano seems to thrive on thinking on his feet, – Ray Sciahetano, Vice President, Marine noting that he’s able to separate himself from the pack by being Division, EIC Associates, Inc. prepared for anything and resolving problems on the fly. While his own ambition is top priority, he says PDCA is an important resource for like-minded professionals in the industry to improve as a whole. “It’s great to get together with members of competing firms for great success,” he said. While he’s still building his dream team, one member stood and hear about the issues they have in the industry and thoughts on resolving those issues. It’s important to recognize better ways out in the Statue of Liberty project. The son of one of EIC’s owners, Andre S. Ameer, had a lot to prove to the self-made of giving clients what they need more economically.” Sciahetano, but he proved to be a kindred spirit. Fostering a team of young guns “He has the same ambition I do with an amazing business For Sciahetano, the only thing better than achieving the impos- sense. Together, we’ll be a force in the industry.” sible (“I love hearing that something can’t be done. I don’t accept This is a good thing when you consider Sciahetano’s lofty it.”) is working with others who have a similar enthusiasm and goal. work ethic. “I want to be the biggest marine company in the industry. I “I want to surround myself with people who are hungry, don’t want to just be a player, I want us to be on top.” We dare you to tell him it’s not possible. t who believe they’re good enough and want to do what it takes

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Off the beaten path I grew up in Tallahassee, Fla., but upon graduating high school I wanted to attend the University of Florida (UF). I had been accepted to UF and ready to leave for Gainesville when my father asked me to stay in Tallahassee and help him run a surf/clothing shop in the Tallahassee Mall. (I still don’t know where he got the idea to open a clothing store, as he is an engineer.) For my whole life, I had been told I would also be an engineer because I was good at math. After hearing that assumed career path for so long, I decided to show everyone they were wrong by becoming an architect. In 1999, I enrolled in Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) in Tallahassee. Attending architecture school was a great learning experience for me as it

forced me way outside my comfort zone. The first couple of years of architecture school is very focused on drawing, painting, art, making models, etc., which was definitely not my strong point, but I learned many skills I would have never obtained. While attending FAMU, I was one of a few students who held a job and the only student out of a class of over 60 students who worked more than a few hours a week. I’ve always had a good work ethic, starting at a young age doing a number of jobs from washing dishes and mowing yards to doing environmental hazard cleanup. Working full-time and attending architecture school was very demanding, and I rarely slept more than a few hours a night. After a couple of years of architecture school, my professors finally realized I was an imposter and recommended I look into civil engineering. (I think my

paper on how architects don’t use logic and have engineers figure out all the hard stuff for them finally was the trick.) Upon hearing about civil engineering for the first time, I looked into the program and thought it was perfect for me. At the time, my now-wife was graduating from FSU and we were looking to get out of Tallahassee. As I was searching for civil engineering programs, I found that the University of North Florida (UNF) was starting a program. I had never been to Jacksonville, but I was very interested in a larger city near the beach as I lived in San Diego for a few years as a kid. In 2001, I was one of the first students to enroll in the UNF Civil Engineering program and in 2003 I earned my B.S. in civil engineering.

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I enjoyed pile driving from the beginning as it got me away from the desk and onto a construction site, which was the main reason I chose civil engineering. It also exposed me to how important the relationship between engineers and contractors is. Learning the ropes In 2003, I started as an intern at Ellis & Associates, Inc. (E&A), a Jacksonville, Fla.-based engineering firm. I have been with E&A for over 10 years, starting out as a geotechnical and constructions materials testing engineer. I have previously served as E&A’s director of construction materials testing & inspection services division (2009 to 2013) and director of transportation services (2007 to 2009), where I managed the largest operation department within E&A and supervised close to 30 employees. One of my first ever project assignments was to provide pile inspection services for the I-95 and St. Augustine Road Interchange in Jacksonville. I enjoyed pile driving from the beginning as it got me away from the desk and onto a construction site, which was the main reason I chose civil engineering. It also exposed

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JD Fields & Company, Inc.......................................................44, 115 Jinnings Equipment.................................................................Cover 2 L.B. Foster Company..................................................................... 129 Lally Pipe and Tube.............................................................................3 Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH.....................................................77 Mandal Pipe Company.......................................................................5 Manhattan Road & Bridge Company......................................... 138 Mason Construction, Ltd...............................................................143 MB Western Industrial Contracting Co.....................................151 Mississippi River Equipment Co. Inc...........................................142 Mississippi Valley Equipment Company, Inc...............................37 Monotube Pile Corporation.......................................................... 144 Municon Consultants........................................................................64 National Rig Rental, LLC............................................................. 140 Nucor Corporation..................................................................100-101 Olin Pump...........................................................................................30 Pacific Pile & Marine......................................................................142 PACO Ventures LLC........................................................................68 Pile Dynamics, Inc...........................................................................141 Pile Equipment Inc......................................................................... 104 Pile Hammer Equipment Corp.................................................... 150 PileMedic by QuakeWrap, Inc........................................................56 Pipe & Tube Supplies, Inc................................................................83 PND Engineers, Inc..........................................................................82 Poseidon Barge Corp.......................................................................133 R. Kremer & Son Marine Contractors, LLC............................ 146 Richard Goettle, Inc............................................................................6 Roll Form Group................................................................................71 RPI Construction Equipment.........................................................70 Shoreline Steel Inc.............................................................................64 Skyline Steel, LLC...........................................................................147 Specialty Piling Systems, Inc........................................................ 146 Sterling Lumber Company............................................................ 104 Tectonic Engineering & Surveying Consultants P.C................114 Terra-Mechanics, Inc...................................................................... 134 Tolunay-Wong Engineers, Inc...................................................... 104 Triad Metals International...............................................................22 Underpinning & Foundation Skanska..........................................38 Versa Steel, Inc.................................................................................114 W.B. Equipment Service Company, Inc........................................74

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Aggregate Technologies..................................................................119 American Equipment & Fabricating Corp....................................98 American Hose Company................................................................52 American Piledriving Equipment.........................................Cover 4 Arntzen Corp. - Steel Pipe Division..............................................34 Baker Pile Driving & Site Work, LLC..........................................74 Bauer-Pileco.........................................................................................65 Bay Machinery Corporation............................................................36 Bayshore Concrete Products............................................................94 Bermingham Foundation Solutions...............................................54 Blakeslee, Arpaia & Chapman, Inc................................................74 Canadian Pile Driving Equipment Inc..........................................99 CAP Management Services.............................................................21 Carpenter's Pole & Piling Inc........Bellyband, Cover Gatefold, 93 Christianson Pipe...............................................................................76 Consolidated Pipe & Supply, Inc.....................................60-61, 148 Corman Marine Construction........................................................29 Corpac Steel Products, Corp...........................................................80 Crane Tech LLC.................................................................................12 Creative Pultrusions, Inc................................................................111 CZM Equipment............................................................................ 106 DeSoto Treated Materials, Inc........................................................87 DFP Foundation Products LLC............................................86, 125 Edgen Murray.....................................................................................10 Eiffel Trading LLC......................................................................... 107 Emeca-SPE..........................................................................................59 Equipment Corporation of America............................................ 8-9 Fenton Rigging & Contracting, Inc............................................. 128 Foundation Constructors, Inc.........................................................90 Geokon, Inc.........................................................................................16 GeoQuip Inc.......................................................................................68 Giken America Corporation..........................................................110 GRL Engineers, Inc...........................................................................68 GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc..........................................................92 H.B. Fleming, Inc..............................................................................98 Hammer & Steel Inc...............................................................Cover 3 Hefei Ziking Steel Pipe, Inc............................................................40 Hennessy International.....................................................................90 Herbert F. Darling Inc....................................................................141 Hercules Machinery Corporation.....................13, Inside Gatefold Houston International Insurance Group......................................24 ICE - International Construction Equipment, Inc................... 122 Independence Tube Corporation................................................. 139 Instantel............................................................................................ 135

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