Richard Dupuy is founder and CEO of UHP Projects, Inc since the company’s inception in 1993. He founded the company to supply state of the art surface preparation and recoating services to the Marine and Industrial industries. The company has grown to over 80 employees in the Tidewater VA area.
UHP Projects provides UHP waterjetting services including coatings removal, cold cutting services, automated surface preparation, nonskid and maintenance coating services to these industries. Principle customers include the US Navy, US Coast Guard, Corp of Engineers and many Industrial customers utilizing state of the art, environmentally friendly surface preparation and recoating techniques.
Prior to starting UHP Projects, Dupuy was the Department superintendent for UHP services at Halliburton where he managed the UHP services of 7 District offices. Under his direction, in 1990, the company completed the first large scale lead abatement project utilizing UHP waterjetting technology to remove lead paint from 265,000 Ft2 of bilge areas on CVN65 at Newport News Shipyard.
Dupuy graduated from the University of Louisiana in 1978 with a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and a minor in Business Management. He has published several technical papers with Trade Organizations on the use of UHP waterjetting for surface preparation applications. Since 1988 he has served on the Technical committee that developed the written and visual SSPC and NACE standards for UHP surface preparation that are currently in use.