ASSOCIATE MEMBER
“We at Koppers Utility & Industrial
wholeheartedly support PDCA’s
mission to educate owners
and specifiers to the value and
benefits of driven piling. After all,
‘A Driven Pile...Is a Tested Pile!’ as
the association says. We have to
keep saying it because it matters.”
– Randy Kelly
some years ago entitled, ‘Why not Timber
Piles?’ In it, he outlined how, with due
engineering diligence, we can, and have,
driven timber piles with service loads of
40 and 50 tons with some regularity, and
even 70 to 75 ton service loads have been
achieved on timber piles safely. This takes
a little more time, testing and effort up
front, but the payoff to the owner in project
savings with ample safety factors can be
AMERICAN SpiralWeld Pipe, with
plants in South Carolina and Michigan,
has been delivering solutions to the
foundations industry for decades. Pipe
is available up to 80 feet in length with
a variety of coatings and fabrications.
Whatever the job size – up to 12 feet
in diameter and thicknesses up to one
inch – we can handle it.
Built strong, built to endure, and made
in America. That’s The Right Way.
That’s the AMERICAN way.
2020, at the outset of the pandemic, to
protect employees, mandating CDC
safety protocols and procedures at all of
its facilities globally. All employees who
could began to work from home, and
PPE and COVID safety procedures were
implemented at all facilities that require
in-person staff. Further, Koppers has
provided incentives and financial security,
says Kelly, so employees can be open and
honest about possible COVID exposure,
enabling the company to test and contact
trace potential cases.
“This mutual trust allowed us to keep
our employees and our facilities safe,”
said Kelly.
Why use timber piling?
“I believe pressure-treated timber piles
are a greatly undervalued, underutilized
economic resource,” said Kelly. “Treated
wood is the economical solution to make
structures more durable, thereby increasing
safety while reducing both initial and
replacement costs.
“Many engineers consider timber
pilings only for low-capacity pile in the 20
to 30 service ton range. Scott Webster of
GRL Engineers and a board member and
treasurer at PDCA wrote a fantastic article
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