Nominations are invited from engineers and scientists for the 2017 Shamsher Prakash Awards for Excellence in research, practice and teaching in geotechnical engineering. The deadline for submission is September 1, 2017. Visit www.yoga10.org for details. TEI Rock Drills int roduced the advanced HCC-10 Hydraulic Casing Safety Handler at CONE X PO i n March. The HCC- 10 excavator attachment was designed to improve jobsite safety and to exceed new safety requirements regarding the handling of drill pipes and casings in field applications. The pipe handler attaches easily and quickly to the arm and auxiliary hydraulics on most 8-ton excavators, and can grasp a length of drill pipe and casing together from a rack and fully position them vertically or horizontally over the drill rig. The drill operator can rely on this equipment to accurately position the pipe and casing as the tubular material threads into the drill string. The HCC-10 eliminates the possibility of serious jobsite injury caused by hand-turning the drill string when adding pipe and casing. During CONEXPO, Liebherr-Werk Nenzing celebrated the 101-year anniversary of Bigge Crane & Rigging, one of its biggest crane customers, with the official handover of a LR 1300 crawler crane. Bigge ordered its first crane from Liehberr in 2001, and has since purchased over 100 products from Liehberr. Goettle has been selected as a finalist for the Willis Towers Watson Construction Safety Excellence Award (CSEA). Final judging was held in March at CONEXPO-CON/AGG in Las Vegas. Goettle recently achieved its second consecutive year of Zero OSHA Recordable Injuries. CSEA rates finalists on the following criteria: management com- mitment, employee participation, safety training, work site hazard identification and safety program innovation. Goettle has opened a new office in West Chicago, and hired four new employees. In Chicago, returning employee Eric Risberg is vice president. Joining him is Kyle Carmody as project manager/ estimator. In addition, the Pittsburgh office has hired Rachel Halbedl and the Cincinnati office has hired Cody Schap- pacher, both were co-op students for Goettle and are now project managers/ estimators. McMillen Jacobs Associ- ates announced a new regional manager and construction management practice lead. John Kaplin, CCM, California regional manager, has been with McMillen Jacobs for 3 years, most recently as the firm’s Construction Management Practice Lead. Kaplin has 30 years of experience in geotechnical investigations, design management, and construction management of underground and heavy civil projects. He has an M.S. in engineering geo- logy and a B.S. in geology from Color- ado State University. Sarah Wilson, P.E., CCM, is the con- struction manage- ment practice lead. She currently serves as resident engineer o n t h e Ce n t r a l Subway project in S a n F r a n c i s c o . Wilson is a senior associate and has b e e n w i t h t h e 134 • DEEP FOUNDATIONS • MAY/JUNE 2017 company for 17 years. She received an M.S. in geotechnical engineering from U.C. Berkeley and a B.S. in civil engineering from Drexel University. celebrating their 20 anniversary with the company. Shawn Robinson, regional sales, and Billy Taylor, service manager, have worked in the Florida office since 1997, and together with Christian Cunningham have built a focused service team in the Southeast. Kurt Seufert, controller, and Alice Dowling, HR administrator, have supported the company from the headquarters in North Construction Equipment (ICE ) are th ICE is a USA manufacturer of pile driving and drilling equipment, providing sales and rentals of USA-made products. Carolina since 1997. Established in 1974, ® Four employees of Internat ional ® Atlas Copco has produced its first piece of equipment, an XAS 185 portable air compressor, at its new production facility in Rock Hill, S.C. The 180,000 sq ft (16,722 sq m) plant, which opened in February 2017, is Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified and serves as the production and assembly facility for Atlas Copco’s North American Construction Technique division. Atlas Copco Construction Equipment welcomes ROMCO Equipment Co. to its growing dealer network. The Texas- based company will rent, sell and service Atlas Copco compressors, generators and light towers to meet customer demands for portable energy equipment across the state.
