Hal K. Cain, P.E.
Civil & Structural LEAD
SENIOR ENGINEER
ROOFING INSPECTOR/CONSULTANT
EDUCATION: B.S., Civil Engineering, The Citadel, Charleston, S.C., M.S.,The University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Civil Engineering, i.e. with emphasis on Construction Management, Soils and Foundations (Geotechnical issues), and Structural Engineering. Continuing education in construction management, engineering and roofing is ongoing constantly.
ENGINEER REGISTRATION: P.E. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida; Company Engineering Registration in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida
CONTRACTOR’S LICENSES: States of Alabama and Louisiana
Certifications: Certified Structural Engineer (National), Certification Number 1065-0705, EIFS Third Party Inspector, by The Exterior Design Institute (EDI), of Norfolk, VA, and certified by Moisture Free to write warranties for Dryvit.
Haag Certified Roof Inspector for Residential and Commercial Roofs
Awards: Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Society and Sigma Epsilon Pi, Engineering Honor Society from The Citadel, Charleston, S.C.
publications
Removal and Replacement of Urea Stripper(Process Vessel) and Urea Carbamate Condenser during PCS Nitrogen Fertilizer Planned Shutdown in October of 2001, Augusta, GA, published and presented at the 48th Annual Safety in Ammonia Plants and Related Facilities Symposium, 2003, by Hal K. Cain, and M.G. Carroll, Professional Engineers.
Standing Waves: Transmission Line Failure Caused By Reflected Energy, by Hal K. Cain, Member of ASCE and Harold Hall, Engineering Physicist. Published in the Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, August 1997 by the ASCE Technical Council on Forensic Engineering.
Cantilever Roof Structural Failure Caused By Excessive Construction Loads, Flawed Design, and Poor Maintenance; was presented at the National Forensic Engineering Conference of the American Society of Civil Engineers in Washington, D.C, November, 2009, by Hal K. Cain, Structural Engineer.
Apartment Building Structural Cracking for no Apparent Reason, Southern Loss Association Monthly newsletter, April 2010, by Hal K. Cain, Structural Engineer.
Swimming Pool Failures, Southern Loss Association Monthly newsletter, March 2011, by Hal K. Cain, Structural Engineer
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Structural Engineer’s Association of Alabama, Roof Consultants Institute, Exterior Design Institute, Structural Engineering Institute (ASCE), American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Steel Construction, American Concrete Institute, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (Affiliate), Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, American Welding Society, Louisiana Engineering Society
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:
Over forty years of progressively responsible experience in the construction and engineering of major Petrochemical, Waste Water Treatment plants, Oil Refineries, Paper Mills, and heavy industrial complexes, steel mills, concrete and asphalt parking and laydown areas, retention ponds, roadways, aluminum rolling mills, Ammonia and Urea Plants, smaller chemical plants, large and small buildings and condominiums. Manages the operation of a Company that performs construction management services, basic engineering services, roof inspection services, and forensic engineering services. Completed the construction management of over fifty chemical plant complexes both in the U.S. and overseas for Companies such as Specialty Minerals, Inc, Bethlehem, PA, Eka Nobel, Inc., Columbus, MS, Scott Paper Company, Mobile, Arizona Chemical Company, and Mustang Engineering (i.e Trunkline LNG, Lake Charles, LA), and Valero Refining, Memphis,TN, and Praxair. Experienced roof inspector and roof consultant. Inspected hundreds of roofs, both residential, commercial, and industrial, of many different styles and types. Experienced warranty inspector of metal roofs for Fabral Metal Wall and Roof Systems, completing the inspection of multiple dozens of building roofs for Fabral and qualified by their home office. Performs metal roof inspections for Centria, ATAS, MBCI, and other roof systems. Designs shop installation drawings for metal roofing systems. Cain and Associates is an approved Roof Inspector for State Farm in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida. Has performed inspections of hundred of homes and commercial buildings, and mobile homes for Insurance Companies, Contractors and Attorneys.
Extensive experience in claims evaluations of Trip and Fall issues for attorneys and insurance companies related to stairs, handrails, guardrails, step down issues, sidewalks and concrete steps from the sidewalk, and related lighting issues. Areas of investigation include theaters, apartment buildings, step down from sidewalks in shopping centers, chemical plants, houses, condominiums, and government buildings.
Evaluated a wide variety of construction management issues, claims, and structural engineering problems for attorneys, insurance companies, and chemical plant customers. Experienced in identifying problems related to roofing, structural and foundation issues, soils problems, grading and compaction problems, stairways, handrails, and platforms, EIFS, windows, flashing, mechanical systems, process systems and piping.
Extensive foundation investigation experience related to ground settlement, foundation failure due to excessive ground water, and expansive soil. Served with major EPC Contractors such as The M.W. Kellogg Company (10 years), Foster Wheeler, John Brown, and Rust Engineers in progressively responsible positions on major projects. Served over five years overseas, on site, in Venezuela, Algeria, and Thailand on major Oil, Liquefied Gas, and Chemical Projects. Responsible for Construction Management, Field Supervision, field engineering, as well as design engineering with these companies.
Served as President, Structural Engineer, and Project/ Construction Manager with his own business, Cain and Associates Engineers and Constructors, Inc. Responsible for all sales, estimating, cost control, Engineering functions, Construction, field construction supervision, and management of projects. Experienced in the engineering and construction of Oil Refineries, LNG Plants, Ammonia Plants, Waste and Water Treatment Plants, Drainage Structures, Paper Mills, Aluminum Rolling Mills, and all related earthwork, piling, sheet piling, foundation engineering work, retaining wall structures, and warehouse and commercial style buildings, residential construction, smaller chemical plants, and all buildings which became a part of these facilities. Performed site construction management and General Contracting activities for metal buildings and residential housing also. Performed rigging set-up and evaluations for heavy lifts for chemical plant construction. Has worked as hands-on Superintendent of Construction activities for large and small construction jobs. Served as engineering consultant to various insurance companies and attorneys in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida on roofing, moisture intrusion, structural engineering, foundation engineering, construction management and claims issues, construction defects, and damage caused by natural or man made disasters since 1993.
Military Experience: Commissioned as a 2nd Lt. in 1970. Completed Engineer Officer Basic Course in 1972, Ft. Belvoir, VA. Served in Command capacities in The Army National Guard in AL, LA, and ILL as a Construction Officer, Water Purification Platoon Leader, and CO (Captain) in an Infantry HQ Company in Illinois. Served for fifteen years in Reserves and National Guard status, currently listed as retired in the Individual Ready Reserve.
Currently managing plant disassembly and construction of Air separation plants for Praxair Inc., of Tonawanda, N.Y. Also providing construction management assistance for multiple plant shutdowns and expansions. Also responsible for the up dating of structural drawings for the BP Offshore platform “Mad Dog” in the Gulf of Mexico. Design responsibility for numerous laydown yards with heavy
loader traffic for Thyssen Krupp Steel in Calvert, Alabama, that also included many retention pond and drainage structures.
Managed the construction of Precipitated Calcium Carbonate Plants within White Paper Mills on a worldwide basis. Performed Construction Management through Managers working under my supervision on over forty U.S. projects, and foreign sites in Thailand, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Finland, Germany, and India. Recruiting and placing Construction Management personnel for major clients such as Mustang Engineering, URS, Valero Energy Company, and Specialty Minerals,Inc. Performed electrical start-up for Calcium Carbonate facility in Brazil. Performed Civil/Structural, Mechanical, Electrical and Instrument engineering services in chemical plants and other industrial facilities. Self performed Construction Management for new Sodium Chlorate plant and offsites facilities, $ 80,000,000 to $ 100,000,000 for Eka Nobel, Inc., Columbus, MS in 1991. Supervised rigging operations, coordinating with contractor on heavy lifts to use proper cranes for lift and tail, as well as monitoring the operator, wind, darkness, and reach for the vessels being lifted.
Major Engineering projects:
1) Evaluation of all plant structures and roofs of buildings within
Arizona Chemical Company Plant complex in Port St. Joe, Florida,
and recommendations and design of building roofs for repairs.
July, August 2008
2) Design of repair to Apartment Building Structure in Tallahassee,
Florida that had multiple cracking in columns and structural
support girders, May of 2008 to March 2009
3) Design of mechanical Feeder mechanism for Process Reactor at
Arizona Chemical Company in Port St. Joe, Florida
4) Extensive Structural Analysis of Collapsed Roof structure of a
Building for CNA Insurance Company, Mobile, AL.
5) Blast Resistant Analysis And Design Of Two Control Buildings For
Pcs Nitrogen, Augusta, Georgia.
6) Performed Design Of Temporary 32 Feet Span Beam Girder For
Nitric Acid Plant By Considering Torsional Effect. Designed Moment
Connection Details Of The Steel Beam And Furnished Attached
Column With Stiffeners And Web Plate.
7) Structural and Piping Design of Urea Plant Revamp to receive new
Carbamate Condenser and new Urea Stripper for PCS Nitrogen,
Augusta, Ga. This is a major plant revamp. Performed on-site
inspection of equipment, structures, and rigging during the
shutdown.
8) Structural Design of Ammonium Nitrate Loading Building entrance
roofs, and structural and mechanical design of Platinum Filter in
Nitric Acid Plant facility, for PCS Nitrogen, Augusta, Ga.
9) CO2 Addition project for PCS Nitrogen, Pipe rack, piping design
and routing, and foundation additions, in conjunction with added
concrete cooling tower basin and deep pump intake pit. Design of
deep pump pit with retaining wall characteristics, buoyancy forces
considered.
10) Value Engineering Study for Mobile College to come up with
ways to reduce the cost of the new Forest Resources Building,
yet maintain its utility. Made recommendations that saved
approximately $ 400,000 on a $ 1.5 million dollar job.
11) Structural re-design of seven story structure for Tall Oil Plant
within Arizona Chemical Company. Remove concrete floors and
replace with checkered plate, which required additional floor
strengthening. Rework all handrails and corroded areas.
12) Three Cooling Tower concrete basins designed along with pump
pit and pumping systems in three different facilities and
applications for PCS Nitrogen, Augusta, GA.
13) Replace Conveyor structure in chemical plant due to corrosion.
14) Structural evaluations and assessments of floor loading capacity
and OSHA compliance with regard to handrails, ladders,
stairways and platforms for several facilities.
15) Design of platforms, Agitator supports, stairways, and handrails
around numerous tanks in chemical plants.
16) Design of Rehabilitation for Storage Warehouse, Panama City,
Fla.
17) Engineering study and preliminary drawing for Ammonia plant
storm drainage line and lift station.
18) Detail design of Storm Water system for entire Fertilizer complex
for Arcadian Corp., Augusta, Ga. Structural design of
underground concrete pit, exhibiting retaining wall characteristics.
Design of sheet piling for retention of earth pressure during
concrete construction.
19) Design of a facility for truck loading of Ammonium Nitrate within
an Ammonia Fertilizer complex, including separation of materials
by size, screening , diversion, and conveyance.
Construction Superintendent for Oil Refinery expansion project in
Venezuela(1994-1995); supervised 16 staff personnel and 1,000 Subcontract personnel, installing approximately 100,000 lf of piping, concrete, steel, instruments, and equipment. $ 80,000,000 project.
Chief Field Engineer for Oil Refinery Expansion project (FCCU, Alkylation, Visbreaker, and offsites), Pt. Reading,N.J.(Hess) and
Ammonia Plant, Sterlington ,La (IMC). Designed several buildings,
support foundations, re-design of some foundations within the plant,
and overall engineering responsibility of the plant during construction.
Chief Field Engineer for major LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) complex in Arzew, Algeria, along with Power Plant and Campsite infrastructure. Project Cost $ 1.2 Billion, three years plus on site. Seismically designed structures, requiring detailed inspection and QA/QC.
Responsible for all site engineering of entire infrastructure setup on LNG project, i.e. design of two large office buildings, four warehouses, design layout of two concrete batch plants, 1000 Ton Silo, Rock Crusher and conveyors, sand and gravel washing, and selection of material for concrete. Design verification and layout for 1200 man batchelor camp and 300 family housing camp and sanitary facilities. Structural Design of formwork used on large Turbogenerator elevated foundation, and subsequently adopted by entire LNG facility for use on LNG Compressor structures. Responsible for all engineering activities for two years within Power Generation Plant, as well as supervising Civil, Structural steel, Boiler installations, and completion of equipment internals, Desalination equipment and commissioning of Boilers and installing TurboGenerator equipment. Completed the last six months of the project as Construction Superintendent.
Chief Field Engineer Sterlington, LA; responsible for all field engineering activities, quality control and quality assurance, and subcontracts administration for the construction of an Ammonia Plant, Ammonia Storage facilities, water and wastewater treating facilities, and numerous offsites’ facilities including tankage, lagoons and underground firewater systems. Responsible for the design and construction of numerous buildings, including control house, metal building construction and multi-purpose use buildings.
Field Engineer for Refinery Multiple Projects for Chevron, Pascagoula, Ms. Work involved installation and inspection of piling, foundations, steel, piping, Furnaces, and equipment. Worked directly with the Rigging Superintendent on Reformer Furnace installations.
Office and Field Engineer for Oil Refinery Cat Cracker Turnaround,
Planning, and Revamp for Shell Oil Company, Wood River, Illinois.
Served as Construction Manager for installation of three new Precipitated Calcium Carbonate Plants for Paper Mills in Ohio and Alabama. Designed pipe rack structures to support ductwork and piping. Designed Tank foundation for new Offsite Sales Tank.
Ancillary Projects Engineer for construction of Aluminum Rolling Mill expansion at ALCOA, Tennessee. Responsible for engineering coordination for construction of large manufacturing buildings, Hot Line Roll tables, Slitter and shear foundations, new power transmission structures, and new overhead crane structure.
Subcontracts Administrator and Area Field Engineer for new Ground Wood Paper Mill Project in Duluth, Minnesota. Extensive amount of insulated siding, specialized roofing materials, and Air Handling systems had to be installed prior to the freezing conditions of January and February in Minnesota.
Structural Engineer in Rust home office during design preparation work for new paper mills in Michigan and Mississippi. Worked on various equipment and piping supports, as well as field design verification for new equipment installation in existing mill in Quinnesec,Michigan.(Champion)
Chief Field Engineer, Field Superintendent, and Acting Construction Manager for the construction of the first commercial Nutra-Sweet manufacturing plant in the U.S. Also supervised construction of a new Candy manufacturing plant in Canajoharie, New York. Designed new access platform above existing equipment, as well as monorail design, ductwork design, and control valve and piping design.
Project Manager for the construction of a large concrete and
Precast concrete panel building (Tissue Mill Building) for Scott
Paper Company, Mobile, Alabama. P&L Responsibility, met
schedule and quality of work required by Scott.
Field Construction Superintendent responsible for Gasoline Blending Unit, Sulfur Unit, Hot Gasoline Tie-ins and Hot Taps, Firewater system, Water Treating Plant Tie-ins and T.E. L. Tie-ins. Coordinated extensively with plant operations and maintenance. Supervised direct hire personnel, with total job cost estimated $50,000,000.
Construction Estimator responsible for take-off and pricing off construction plans for commercial buildings, including large concrete quantities, earthworks, and all interior furnishings and carpentry work. Coordinated with subcontractors and received bids prior to bid letting.