DFI’s 45th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations (#DFI45), was presented as an online conference. The theme was People. Purpose. Passion. The conference showcased a profession at the top of its game, highlighting the hard work, passion, connections, technologies and professionalism that drive the deep foundations industry worldwide.

On October 27th, join Dave Paul as he explores lessons learned from the Teton Dam failure with the ASCE Chicago chapter. This presentation will review geotechnical aspects of the failure and the cultural shift in dam engineering. This lecture will be delivered as a webinar.

Erik Loehr, Ph.D., P.E., Logan Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Missouri and a senior principal engineer with Dan Brown and Associates, has been invited to present the DFI Osterberg Memorial Lecture at the International Foundations Congress and Equipment Exposition (IFCEE 2021). The event, being held at the Hyatt Regency Dallas […]

Pre-event webinar series for 10th Anniversary Conference on Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development in India.

DFI announces the winners of the 2020 Paper Competitions.  Alejandro Martinez, Ph.D., assistant professor, and Kyle O’Hara, Ph.D., graduate student researcher, University of California, Davis, are the winners of the Young Professor Paper Competition. Their paper, “Applications of Frictional Directionality for Monotonically- and Cyclically-loaded Piles,” describes the load-transfer behavior of piles with surface inspired by […]

October 14, 2020 – Online David Paul delivers a virtual talk on the “Dam Safety program and positive impacts on critical infrastructure. The 2020-2021 DFI Traveling Lecturer, David Paul, presented a virtual lecture, “Forty Years of Dam & Levee Safety” to the ASCE New York chapter. The lecture focused on the failure of the Teton […]