Working Platforms Industry-Wide Working Group
The Working Platforms Industry-Wide Working Group (WPWG) is an industry-wide forum gathered to improve design and construction practices that ensure safe working platforms for equipment used to install deep foundations.
Co-chair
Terence Holman, Ph.D., P.E.
Geosyntec Consultants
tholman@geosyntec.com
Terry Holman is the senior principal – Geostructural and Construction Engineering for Geosyntec Consultants. He has more than 25 years of experience in geotechnical and geostructural engineering, design, and heavy-civil construction. His specialties include geotechnical design, analysis and construction; research and teaching in geotechnical and geostructural engineering and mechanics; constructability analysis; and evaluation of technical risk, especially design-build or P3 project delivery methods. Holman has served on the Board of Directors of ADSC, and is a member of DFI, ASCE, Geo-Institute and the Structural Engineering Institute. He received his Ph.D. in geotechnical engineering from Northwestern University, and his B.S. and M.S. in civil engineering from Drexel.
Co-chair
Scott A. Jacobs, P.E.
Keller
scott.jacobs@keller-na.com
Scott A. Jacobs is a senior engineer for Keller supporting the Northeast region and assisting on projects nationwide. A registered professional engineer in seven East Coast states spanning from Florida to New York, Jacobs has 20 years of experience in geotechnical engineering and contracting. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a master’s in geotechnical engineering from the University of Florida. He is a member of the DFI Drilled Shaft Committee and a voting member of the ACI 336 Drilled Shaft committee.
Upcoming Events
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48th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations
October 31 – November 3, 2023 – Seattle, Washington
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DFI Midyear Committee Meetings 2023
April 17-21, 2023
Participating Groups
Initiatives
Outreach and Awareness Task Force
Developing outreach messages for general contractors, insurance organizations, state OSHAs, and architects.
In progress
Working Platforms Guidance
Industry-generated guidance for safe design, maintenance and administration of safe working platforms.
Education
- ADSC Poster – Safe Working Platforms for Construction Equipment
- PDCA’s working platforms panel discussion webinar (October 2020) featuring WPWG members
- EFFC video on Safe Working Platforms
- Working Platforms: concerns and the requirement for an industry-wide effort to implement meaningful change when it comes to higher standards of safety, PileDriver magazine, Edition 3, 2019
- Federation of Piling Specialists – UK Working Platform Initiative and Calculation of Rig Bearing Pressure, presented at SuperPile ’18 by Derek Egan, Ph.D., of Remedy Geotechnics.
- Access the Working Platforms Sessions from 2022 DFI-EFFC Conference
Fundamentals
Federation of Piling Specialists Bearing Capacity Tool