February 5, 2020 – Online The DFI Testing & Evaluation Committee launched an ITS Money Webinar Series in the fall of 2019. This series of three webinars, brought to you by DFI’s Testing & Evaluation Committee, demonstrated how foundation testing conducted during the design phase can provide data that optimizes foundation designs and construction procedures, […]

The 2nd DFI-PFSF Piling & Ground Improvement Conference is taking place March 23-25, 2020, at International Convention Centre (ICC) Sydney in Australia. The conference — being hosted by Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and Piling & Foundation Specialists Federation (PFSF) — promotes all aspects of the deep foundations, earth retention and ground improvement works.  The conference […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust and the Terracon Foundation announce the establishment of the DFI Educational Trust/Terracon Consultants Scholarship Fund, which will provide scholarships to engineering students attending any U.S. college or university. The endowment was established through a generous $50,000 National Partner Grant from the Terracon Foundation. The Foundation’s pledge will be used […]

DFI announces a call for entries for its 2020 Awards, which showcase and celebrate the achievements and contributions of individuals, teams and companies in the deep foundations industry. Deadline February 1, 2020, for the Ben C. Gerwick Award for Innovation in Design and Construction of Marine Foundations nominations. The award recognizes the innovative spirit of […]

Registration is open for DFI’s 45th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations (#DFI45) taking place October 13-16, 2020, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Register to attend or exhibit at archive.dfi.org/Annual2020. The theme of the conference is People. Purpose. Passion. The conference will showcase a profession at the top of […]

DFI’s membership voted to elect two new members to the DFI Board of Trustees and re-elected three members. Their terms began on January 1, 2020.  The newly elected trustees are Peter Faust, Dipl.-Ing., of Malcolm Drilling, and Franz-Werner Gerressen, Dipl.-Ing., of Bauer Maschinen.  Faust, vice president of business development at Malcolm Drilling Company, has over […]