Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces new chairs for two of its 28 Technical Committees: Sustainability Committee and Testing & Evaluation Committee.  Gerald Verbeek, of Verbeek Management Systems (VMS) and Allnamics Pile Testing Experts, has taken the helm of DFI’s Sustainability Committee. He was recently the chair of the Testing & Evaluation Committee.  Verbeek is very […]

DFI Europe, a regional chapter of the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), announces Anne Lemnitzer and Stig Weiss have joined its Board of Trustees as new members.  Anne Lemnitzer, Ph.D., P.E., is on the faculty in geotechnical engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and is a visiting scholar at the University of Applied Sciences, Leipzig, […]

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.

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

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 […]

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 […]

/columns Michael Sherman, director of policy and research with the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), is presenting the 2020 Hal Hunt Lecture on Communications during the DFI 45th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, being held live online October 27-30, 2020.  The lecture, on Wednesday, October 28, is titled, “An Overview of the Federal Commemorative Works […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces the availability of the most recent edition of the DFI Journal, a peer-reviewed publication of high-quality technical papers. DFI Journal, Volume 13, Issue 2, includes the following research papers and case studies by five excellent author groups. Three of the five papers deal with piles and the remaining two papers […]