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These alternative systems were mainly large national firms with
engineers on staff and sales folks, and we just couldn’t compete.
“So I led the effort to put together a plan to get all the South
Carolina pile drivers to form an organization to promote the
use of driven piles. And in May 2003, we formed PDCA of South
Carolina, the first local chapter. So that was my motivation, to
save our market share, basically.”
Robbins firmly believes one of PDCA’s main strengths is that
it gives pile drivers a voice at the table when important construction
decisions are being made.
“When we join together and build those relationships with
our engineering friends, we learn from them how we can do our
jobs better at a local level. They see our dedication to quality
control standards and that we can be local, reliable partners in
the process,” he said. “Hopefully, the result is that driven piles
are more often the choice of design professionals.”
Moore says he’s learned a lot of valuable lessons from Robbins
in the 17 years that he’s known him. One that’s really stuck with
him is about just how valuable PDCA can be – not only to the pile
driving industry as a whole but to all of its members.
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“His encouragement to me was that those who participate
in the work of the association benefit most from it. I didn’t
know what he meant at that point in time and I wasn’t sure if I
believed him. It wasn’t until I started taking him up on his advice
and getting involved that I really learned the value of what it
was that he was saying,” said Moore. “It’s a place where we both
can add value and gain value. We learn a tremendous amount
through the association, but we also have a tremendous amount
to give others. And it’s in that process that we find a significant
amount of reward in the giving and the taking.
“That was really when Harry first kind of planted that seed
for me, and it was just an easy, natural thing when I came to
Palmetto to continue in the work that he had begun a long time
before with PDCA. That’s probably the biggest impact that he
had on me over the course of 17 years – to ask me to consider
being a part of something bigger than myself, not only for our
own benefit, but for the benefit of others.”
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