GRL History
The year GRL was incorporated.
What is 1976?
The year Pile Dynamics was incorporated.
What is 1972?
Famous for the phrase “It Should Work”
Who is George Piscsalko?
The largest TIP wire project for PDI to date.
What is the Signature Bridge project in Miami FL?
Homegrown database of DOTs, Railways and Tollways located on the Blue Page.
What is Briefcase?
Is responsible for human resources.
Who is Ramona?
The most recently formed GRL branch office.
What is GRL-Georgia?
The first commercial PDA model.
What is the Model EB Analyzer?
Often expressed the reply “Yaa Sure”
Who is Frank Rausche
Country of GRL’s first international project.
What is Belgium? (Esso Refinery Tank, Antwerp Belgium, 1973)
In 2020, this platform drove the most website traffic with a 90.3% increase.
What is social media?
If a correction is made to a job number on the Blue Page after it has already been entered, who should you inform?
Who is Sue?
The first GRL Branch office.
What is GRL-Colorado?
First non-PDA related product.
What is the Saximeter (ESAX)?
Blew up the only PDA unit in existence at the time.
Who is Garland Likins?
Body of water surrounding GRL’s first offshore platform project.
What is the Gulf of Mexico? (Chevron MainPass 254 Platform, 1974)
GRL local office quarterly activity generating an avg. 15% OR 10% CTR.
What are GRL Local Office eCampaigns?
On an expense report, you should adjust the reimbursement for these edible morsels when provided by clients/others, for an accurate per diem reimbursement.
What are meals?
Longest serving current GRL employee.
Who is Mohamad Hussein? (38 years)
The first digital PDA.
What is the GCPC?
Tested a pile with the PDA locked inside the car and the test engineer locked outside.
Who is Bassam Nasrallah of GRL-PA? (The unintended first SiteLink Test)
Major 1980’s project that created the DOT market for PDA testing in Florida.
What is the Sunshine Skyway Bridge? (Tampa, FL 1981)
Branded for approx. 20 years, this got a facelift in 2020.
What is the GRL Logo?
All invoices, whether taxable or nontaxable, should include this locational information.
What is job site address?
Largest domestic GRL client over the past 5 years.
Who is the Florida DOT?
Longest serving full time employee at PDI.
Who is Dean Cotton? For bonus, how many years?
Swam in Chesapeake Bay around midnight in late November while removing PDA gages from a cylinder pile.
Who is Pat Hannigan
US project that required 6 GRL engineers and 6 PDA units on-site during its peak testing activity.
What is the Marquette Interchange Project? (Milwaukee, WI 2006)
Upon abstract or paper approval, notification of topic, date and permission parameters, goes to whom.
Who is Marketing? (and Pat)
When comparing an expense report to your timesheet, these two time periods should match.
What are Travel hours and Onsite hours?