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History of Driven Piles in New Orleans NA S IA EC THE LOUISIANA S T I I U O O N L CIVIL ENGINEER ACADIANA BRANCH • BATON ROUGE BRANCH NEW ORLEANS BRANCH • SHREVEPORT BRANCH 1914 Journal of The Louisiana Section Volume 12 • Number 2 February 2004 INSIDE: FEATURE: FUTURE: Registration and Information for History of driven piles Louisiana Civil Engineering 2004 Annual Spring Meeting in New Orleans Conference and Show and Conference in Shreveport in New Orleans March 18 - 19, 2004 ESSAY: September 9-10, 2004 A technology-based economy NEWS: for North Louisiana Section Annual Meeting Times-Picayune acknowledges in New Orleans reporters win ASCE award September 10, 2004 New professional degree SERVICES AND SUPPLIERS 13201 Old Gentilly Road New Orleans, Louisiana 70129 Precast Bridges Concrete Pipe — Manholes — Box Culverts Catch Basins — Drainage Structures OFFICE: 877-754-7379 FACSIMILE: 504-254-3164 PROFESSIONAL LISTINGS The listing of your business card or larger presentation here with our other supporters to help subsidize The Louisiana Civil Engineer, the journal of the Louisiana Section, would be greatly appreciated. For information about listing rates and requirements, please direct inquiries to Norma Jean Mattei, PE, Telephone: (504) 280-5414 or e-mail: [email protected]. 2 THE LOUISIANA CIVIL ENGINEER / FEBRUARY 2004 THE LOUISIANA CIVIL ENGINEER PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE: CONTENTS Norma Jean Mattei, PE, Chair (504) 280-5414 Branch Presidents, Members President’s Message . .4 James C. Porter, PE, Editor (225) 242-4556 History of driven piles in New Orleans . .5 Yvette Weatherton, PE, Student Chapter News (225) 771-5870 News from the Branches . .8 Student Chapter News . .10 PUBLISHER: Franklin Press, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA Section News and Information . .11 A technology-based economy for N. Louisiana . .12 The Louisiana Civil Engineer quarterly journal is an official publication of the Louisiana Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers with an 2004 Annual Spring Meeting & Conference: average circulation of approximately 1900. The Section neither guarantees Registration Form . .13 the accuracy of statements made nor necessarily concurs with the opinions Conference Agenda . .14 expressed in this publication. Please submit letters to the editor and articles Editor’s Journal . .16 for consideration to be published by facsimile to (225) 242-4552, by e-mail Professional Listings . .2, 22-23 to [email protected], or by mail to the Publications Committee c/o James C. Porter, PE • 2608 Terrace Avenue • Baton Rouge, LA 70806- Services and Suppliers . .2, 24 6868. LOUISIANA SECTION • AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Louisiana Engineering Center • 9643 Brookline Avenue • Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70809 • (225) 923-1662 SECTION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Secretary President-Elect President Mohammed J. Khattak Kirt M. Nixon, EI Barbara E. Featherston, PE University of Louisiana — Lafayette Smith and Raley, Inc. Camp Dresser & McKee Treasurer Secretary President-Elect Jeffrey L. Duplantis, PE Lisa Nichols, EI Norma Jean Mattei, PE Sellers & Associates, Inc. Mohr & Associates Inc. University of New Orleans Past President Treasurer Vice President Larry A. Cramer, PE Ashley T. Sears, EI Kim E. Martindale, PE Sellers & Associates, Inc. Aillet, Fenner, Jolly and McClelland Louisiana DOTD Baton Rouge Branch Past President Secretary-Treasurer President Joe E. (Butch) Ford, Jr., PE Timothy M. Ruppert, PE David M. Burkholder, PE Bossier Parish US Army Corps of Engineers Louisiana DNR BRANCH TECHNICAL COMMITTEE CHAIRS Past President President-Elect Baton Rouge Charles L. Eustis, PE André M. Rodrigue, PE Structures Louis J. Capozzoli & Associates ABMB Engineers, Inc. Danny J. Deville, PE Directors-at-Large Vice President McKee & Deville Consulting Engineers, Inc. Joe E. (Butch) Ford, PE Thomas T. Roberts, PE Geotechnical Bossier Parish Waskey Bridges, Inc. Gavin P. Gautreau, PE J. Keith Shackelford, PE Secretary-Treasurer Louisiana Transportation Research Center CSRS, Inc. Brant B. Richard, PE Environmental Gustave S. (Gus) Cantrell, PE C-K Associates, Inc. University of New Orleans Stephen D. Fields, PE Patrick J. Landry, PE Directors Compliance Consultants, Inc. Louisiana DNR Gregory P. Sepeda, PE Water Resources Sigma Consulting Group, Inc. Morris Sade Assigned Branch Directors Jesse T. Thompson, EI Miraj Envirotek, Inc. Reda Bakeer, PE PEC, Inc. Tulane University Management Stephen M. Meunier, PE Michael N. Dooley, PE Roy A. Waggenspack, PE Louisiana DOTD Owen & White, Inc. Sigma Consulting Group, Inc. Past President Branch Directors Pipeline J. Keith Shackelford, PE Roy A. Waggenspack, PE John E. Bosch, Jr., PE Chenevert Songy Rodi Soderberg, Inc. Maritime International, Inc. Owen and White, Inc. David M. Burkholder, PE New Orleans Branch Transportation Louisiana DNR President P. Brian Wolshon, PE Christopher G. Humphreys, PE Christopher G. Humphreys, PE LSU Baton Rouge Professional Services Industries, Inc. Professional Services Industries, Inc. New Orleans C. Eric Hudson, PE President-Elect Structures Alliance, Inc. Deborah D. Keller, PE Mark H. Gronski, PE SECTION TECHNICAL COMMITTEE CHAIRS Port of New Orleans U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Geotechnical Vice President Geotechnical David P. Sauls, PE William H. Sewell, Jr., PE William W. Gwyn, PE Louis J. Capozzoli & Associates DPW City of New Orleans Eustis Engineering Company, Inc. Structures Secretary Environmental and Water Resources Anthony F. Goodgion, PE Ronald L. Schumann, Jr., PE David A. Cole, PE Linfield, Hunter & Junius, Inc. DMJM+Harris, Inc. Montgomery Watson Harza, Inc. Environmental Treasurer STUDENT CHAPTERS IN THE LOUISIANA SECTION Brant B. Richard, PE Christopher L. Sanchez, EI Presidents/Faculty Advisors C-K Associates, Inc. Consoer Townsend Envirodyne Engrs., Inc. LSU Kyle Murrell BRANCH OFFICERS Directors P. Brian Wolshon, PE Peter R. Cali, PE La. Tech Brooke Fletcher Acadiana Branch US Army Corps of Engineers President Norman D. Pumphrey, Jr., PE Nathan J. Junius, EI McNeese Nick Pestello John E. Bosch, Jr., PE Linfield, Hunter & Junius, Inc. Maritime International, Inc. Janardanan (Jay) O. Uppot, PE Past President Southern Niayonda Picou, Chuckwu Onu and President-Elect Daniel L. Bolinger, PE Yvette P. Weatherton, PE Kimberly D. Landry, EI DMJM+Harris, Inc. Lafayette Consolidated Government Tulane Ashley Warren Shreveport Branch John H. (Jack) Grubbs, PE Vice President President ULL Sandy Guidry Dax A. Douet, PE Paul A. Richards, PE C. H. Fenstermaker & Associates, Inc. C. Eric Hudson, PE Alliance, Inc. UNO Stephanie Krebbs Gianna M. Cothern, PE Section Delegates to District 14 Council The Louisiana Section is located in ASCE Zone II, District 14. Miles B. Bingham, PE Timothy M. Rupert, PE Ralph W. Junius, PE URS Greiner U.S. Army Corps Linfield, Hunter & Junius, Inc. Zone II consists of Districts 6, 7, 9, 10 and 14. District 14 consists Woodward Clyde of Engineers of the Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia Sections. THE LOUISIANA CIVIL ENGINEER / FEBRUARY 2004 3 President’s Message Barbara E. Featherston, PE The state of our infrastructure is a very The problem is that at some point it would important issue that has a significant impact on seem the situation is going to just explode! our daily lives as well as our profession. As There continues to be a growing inventory of engineers, it is part of our business to design, infrastructure that just cannot be effectively construct, operate and maintain the infrastruc- operated or maintained. It must be replaced and ture — roads, bridges, pipes and pumps, etc. — the related costs continue to escalate with the to facilitate the development of our civilization. problem. As a practical matter, all of the facilities we What do we do as engineers? We cannot design have a life cycle. Within that life cycle it grow or mint money though that would appear to is implied that resources for the expected main- be what we may need to address the problem. tenance and the eventual replacement — noth- How do we generate the funds needed to start to ing lasts forever — are required. Some facilities arrest and eventually reverse the state of a dete- have different life expectancies and different riorating infrastructure that represents such maintenance requirements. overwhelming needs? Currently the resources As engineering students we all took engi- for infrastructure are obtained through fees — neering economy that taught us as engineers to water and sewer — and taxes — gas, property, take into account the capital cost of a project, its sales, etc. Those are basically the mechanisms for and 17 against the proposal. This alone life expectancy and the years between preven- needed, we just need to get more from them and should not sway the individual member’s vote tive maintenance when we analyze the alterna- ensure they are applied to the infrastructure for come this July when the ballot is received in the tives for our clients. The problem is when our which they are designated. mail. I urge each Section member to take some aging facilities were designed and built, an There are some rays of hope on the engi- time to review the proposal on the ASCE web- implied covenant was made to expend the capi- neering/political horizon which may effectively site www.asce.org and become informed and tal to provide for preventive maintenance and generate the public awareness of the realities of prepared to vote. replacement when the service life comes to an the infrastructure engineering issues. Infor- To some extent, I can see why the gover- end. What we are witnessing today
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