This document serves as a guide for GBA member firms involved in projects with crane pads and other working platforms for heavy drilling, hoisting, and pumping equipment. It summarizes recommended practices related to these critical components of construction projects to reduce risk to member firms.

Bearing capacity;Bearing pad;Cement-stabilized;Certification;CoMET;Contractual relationship;Conflict-of-interest;Crane operations;Crane specification;Drain fields; Drilling;Engineered platform;Excavation zone;Field density;Geogrid-reinforced crushed aggregate;Geotechnical;Grading plans; Hoisting; In-situ testing; Lime-stabilized soils; Limitation of Liability; Load footprints;Pick load;Project specifications; Rotary Drilling Rig;Septic tanks;Site plans;Special Inspection firm; Steel plates;Subgrade soil; Timber mats;Vaults;Visual assessments