2025 HSS SUMMIT
Session

Galvanizing HSS Best Practices

Description:

The purpose of this seminar is to educate architects, engineers, and other specifiers about the successful specification, design, inspection, and coating hot-dip galvanized steel as it pertains to HSS designs. We will review proper design for HSS to allow for a successful application of the coating. We will discuss how hot-dip galvanizing and paint can coexist. This presentation will provide the most updated HDG industry trends with regard to HSS.

Learning Objectives:

• Assess the reasons for hot-dip galvanizing, the batch HDG process, and the standards to be specified.
• Identify the best practices for HSS to be galvanized based on ASTM specification guidelines.
• Analyze the effect of steel chemistry on galvanizing.
• Conduct proper inspection and testing methods to jot-dip galvanized steel.

PDH credits: 1.0

Speaker:

John White, American Galvanizers Association (AGA) & Sales Manager, South Atlantic, LLC

About John:

John R. White V brings over 17 years of experience in the hot-dip galvanizing industry, with a background that spans both sales and operations at leading galvanizing companies including South Atlantic and AZZ. A graduate of Louisiana State University with a degree in Business Administration and Construction Management, John has played a key role in galvanizing major HSS projects across the country.

His project highlights include the 53-mile Causeway Bridge rail system and more than 10,000 tons of galvanized HSS for energy sector substations throughout his career. John holds the Master Galvanizer Certification and is an active member of the American Galvanizers Association, where he supports education and outreach efforts across the structural steel industry.

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