Drew Sparks is a geotechnical engineer with 28 years of experience and is a registered professional engineer in 27 states. He has 21 years of experience in designing Horizontal Directional Drill and Direct Pipe® projects up to 48-inches in diameter and lengths over 13,000 feet.
Drew worked on a team of engineers to develop a design procedure for Direct Pipe® design as well as developed a proprietary software program to evaluate the hydraulic fracture and drilling fluid surface release risk for Horizontal Directional Drill and Direct Pipe® crossings.
Drew received his B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering from Brigham Young University. Drew served as Secretary for the ASCE Manual of Practice Committee for Direct Pipe®, currently serves as a Board of Director for the North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT) and is the Director of Engineering for the engineering group of Laney Directional Drilling.
Drew teaches NASTT’s Direct Steerable Pipe Thrusting (DSPT) Good Practices Course.