Join us, Thursday, March 5, 2026 for the

Driven Pile Technical Seminar

The Pile Driving Contractors Association of South Carolina (PDCA of SC) is proud to sponsor a one-day technical seminar on driven pile foundations for the benefit of structural and geotechnical engineers, architects, owners and contractors. The diverse program will cover case histories, design methodologies, pile driving practices and testing. As the chapter's marquis education program, the proceeds from this event are the primary source of funding for our PDCA of SC Mac Nigels scholarship fund - thanks for supporting!

The agenda is set and the order of this year's presentations is as follows:

Piles in Moving Ground

Billy Camp, P.E., BC.GE

Kiewit, Principal Geotechnical Engineer

QA/QC of Driven Pile Elements

Ryan Allin, P.E.

Pile Dynamics, Inc., Vice President

Structure Response to Construction Vibrations

Brent Meins

Detecht, LLC, Chief Engineer

Case Studies in Lateral Load Resistance

Kyle Rollins, Ph.D.

Brigham Young University, Professor

Changes to Section 10 of the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications

and What it Means for SCDOT Design and Construction

Nicholas E. Harman, MS, PE, BC.GE

South Carolina Department of Transportation

*** Speaker bios below ***



Agenda:

8:00 AM - Registration and Breakfast

8:45 AM - 12:15 PM - Speaker Sessions

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM - Lunch

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Speaker Sessions

Thank you, sponsors!

Platinum

Palmetto Pile Driving, Inc.

Parker Marine Contracting Corp.

Gold

Cape Romain Contractors, Inc.

Essve Tech, Inc.

Pile Drivers, Inc.

Silver

Coastal Engineering and Testing Company

Koppers, Inc.

NUCOR Skyline

Soil Consultants, Inc.

Bronze

GRL Engineers, Inc.

Russell Marine, LLC

Your generous contributions allow the PDCA of SC to offer this program at an excellent rate and fund our annual scholarship!

Special thanks to our seminar chair, Greg Canivan, P.E., S&ME,

for a fantastic speaker lineup (again)!

Billy Camp, P.E., BC.GE is a Principal Geotechnical Engineer with Kiewit. Based in Charleston, South Carolina for the last 38 years, his primary activities have focused on site characterization, design and testing of deep foundations, geotechnical earthquake engineering, and development of soft ground sites. He serves on multiple technical committees within ASCE, the Geo-Institute, DFI, and PDCA, and is a Past-President of the Geo-Institute. Billy received a BSCE from University of Virginia and an MSCE from University of Texas at Austin. He is a Member of the University of Texas CAEE Academy of Distinguished Alumni.

Ryan Allin, P.E. has been a project engineer with PDI/GRL since 2004. He has a BS in Civil Engineering from Cleveland State University and has achieved Expert level on the PDCA/PDI Dynamic Measurement and Analysis Proficiency Test. After several years performing the entire range of deep foundation engineering services throughout the United States and in international offshore projects, Ryan is currently responsible for all PDI/GRL’s educational programs for foundation testing professionals. In that capacity he has lectured on numerous seminars, webinars and workshops on foundation testing and has co-authored papers on the subject.

Ryan is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Deep Foundations Institute, and Pile Driving Contractors Association, and is a registered professional engineer in Ohio, Kentucky, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Indiana.

Brent Meins has 16 years of experience in dynamic measurements, is a Ph.D. candidate in explosives engineering, and is the Chief Engineer of Detecht, a company he founded in 2018 with his wife, Oana, offering vibration monitoring and specialized instrumentation services. He has 14 publications including the ISEE paper of the year and does applied research in structural dynamics, underwater blast pressures, and pipeline strain from blasting vibrations. Brent serves as an expert witness on construction vibration matters and is an instructor for ATF explosives training programs.

Detecht is based in Castle Rock, Colorado and worked in 13 states last year. They have been a member of PDCA for two years and have some exciting research in the works on structure response to pile driving.

Kyle Rollins, Ph.D. received his BS degree from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. After working as a geotechnical consultant, he joined the Civil Engineering faculty at BYU in 1987 following after his father who was previously a geotechnical professor. His research has involved geotechnical earthquake engineering, deep foundation behavior, bridge abutments, collapsible soils, and soil improvement techniques. He has published over 190 technical papers and supervised over 130 graduate students. He was recognized as the engineering educator of the year by the Utah State Engineers Council and received a Governor's Award for Science and Technology in 2017. ASCE has recognized his work with the Huber research award, the Wellington prize, and the Wallace Hayward Baker Award. In 2009, he was the Cross-Canada Geotechnical lecturer for the Canadian Geotechnical Society and in 2013 he received the Jorj Osterberg Award for innovation in foundation testing from the Deep Foundation Institute.

Nicholas E. Harman, MS, PE, BC.GE serves as the Geotechnical Design Policy Engineer at the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) Headquarters. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Virginia Military Institute and a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering (Geotechnical) from Virginia Tech.



Nicholas is a Board-Certified Geotechnical Engineer (BC.GE) and a licensed Professional Engineer (PE). He brings extensive experience in geotechnical design, policy development, and infrastructure engineering, providing technical leadership and statewide guidance for geotechnical practice at SCDOT.