Professors’ Driven
Pile Institute
pdca event
2015
Fundraising has begun and PDCA needs your help to reach our goal.
Help make a difference in our industry!
PDCA is proud to announce the 8th Biennial PDCA Professors’
Driven Pile Institute (PDPI), to be held in June
2015 at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
Through the PDPI, PDCA has provided the nation’s leading
engineering professors from more than 100 different colleges
and universities with the opportunity to learn all about driven
piles – from the basic to the complex and from the classroom to
the field. Since the first PDPI program in 2002, the professors
– all teaching undergraduate or graduate courses in foundation
engineering – have exposed approximately 24,000 engineering
students to the word of driven piles and their advantages as a
foundation system.
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.
PDCA advances driven piles
A key component in increasing the visibility and marketability
of driven piles is to educate those that will ultimately specify the
foundations for any given project.
Professors have the opportunity to influence young engineering
students before they enter their profession and design
their first project. The PDPI provides the professors who teach
these students with the knowledge, experience and material to
effectively inform these future industry leaders as to the advantages
of driven piles as a preferred foundation solution.
The course
•• Approximately 170 of the nation’s leading engineering professors
have completed this intensive, five-day training program
•• PDCA pays the entire cost for each professor to attend the
course, excluding their transportation costs to and from Utah
State University – a cost of about $1,800 to $2,000 per professor
to PDCA
•• Professors learn about driven pile design, installation, quality
control and assurance, economics and advancements in driven
pile technology, as well as become more familiar with PDCA’s
role in the industry
•• Professors gain the ability to teach their engineering students
about the value of driven piles through knowledge, skill and
material, along with the ability to relate to an actual pile driving
field operation
•• The end result: a new generation of engineers specifying
driven piles as the preferred method for deep foundations and
earth retention systems
How you can help
PDCA funds virtually all expenses for the professors, which means
a program like the PDPI is expensive to conduct, but worth every
dollar invested. This program is truly a win-win situation for the
association and the pile driving community as a whole.
PDCA is seeking the following sponsorship levels to help
reach our goal of $50,000:
Platinum – $10,000
•• A platinum sponsor will be identified as the sponsoring
company for two professors, with major name and logo recognition
throughout the program. The company will also be
identified in PileDriver magazine and PDCA e-Letters, as well
as have the company logo featured on PDCA’s website through
PDPI 2015. The company logo will appear on all instruction
material, and the company will receive a plaque acknowledging
the sponsorship and paid PDCA membership in 2015.
Desert Deep Foundations’ crane onsite at Utah State University for the PDPI program
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