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Forefront Deep Foundations is a new PDCA contractor member based in California
CONTENTS
EDITION 6 2019
In Every Issue
President’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Executive Director’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Committee Chairs & Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
PDCA Membership Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Industry Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
PDCA Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Newsmakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Did You Know? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
PDCA’s Local Chapters
Chapter Connections
Susheel Kolwalkar, Ph.D., P.E. talks about why he’s
a member of the PDCA of South Carolina Chapter .33
PDCA “Florida-Georgia Blitz” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
PDCA of the Gulf Coast Chapter
Engineers Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
PDCA of the Pacific Coast Chapter Scholarship Awards . . . 41
PDCA 2020
PDCA 2020 Annual Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Project of the Year Awards Program
Open for submissions! .48
PDCA Event Wrap-up
20th Annual DICEP Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
On the Cover:
Even with unanticipated extra
work and unforeseen delays,
challenging working conditions
and congested work areas,
Cajun completed the Elba
Liquefaction project with zero
injuries and within an acceptable
timeframe. See page 106.
EDITION 6 2019 | VOLUME 16, NO. 6
THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE
PILE DRIVING CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION
THE ELBA
PROJECT
EDITION 6 2019 | VOLUME 16, NO. 6
LIQUEFACTION
Complicated logistics
solved by Cajun
PDCA 2020 Project of the Year Awards
How One PDCA Member Created its Safety Culture
Remembering Joe Caliendo
“A Driven Pile … Is a Tested Pile!”
Cover photo: Cajun Industries
Top photo: Forefront Deep Foundations
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