Committee & Regional News

March 23, 2023, Hawthorne, N.J.: Registration is open for S3: Slopes, Support and Stabilization being held August 8-10 at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The two-and-a-half-day conference focuses on the practical application of deep foundations and ground improvement techniques for stabilizing soft ground, landslides and slopes, and supporting deep excavations. The technical program highlights […]

March 10, 2023, Hawthorne, N.J.: Join more than 1,000 geotechnical professionals this fall at DFI’s 48th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations (#DFI48), being held October 31–November 3, in Seattle.  Registration is open to attend, exhibit and sponsor the conference at archive.dfi.org/Annual2023. The theme of the conference is Embracing Change, and the technical program explores the […]

March 9, 2023, Hawthorne, N.J.: Registration is open for SuperPile ’23, a piling design and construction conference hosted by DFI in partnership with ADSC. The annual SuperPile conference is taking place at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis on June 7-9. This three-day event includes presentations and panel discussions on the latest developments in piling foundations, highlighting […]

February 8, 2023, Chennai, India: DFI of India announces the appointment of a new chair and new vice chair. Mohan Ramanathan has been named as chair of DFI of India after serving as vice chair. He succeeds I.V. Anirudhan. In addition, Sunil S. Basarkar, Ph.D., has been appointed as vice chair of DFI of India after serving on the executive committee.

February 8, 2023, Hawthorne, N.J.: Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces the availability of a new edition of the DFI Journal, a peer-reviewed publication of high-quality technical papers.

January 23, 2023, Hawthorne, N.J.: Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces Gregory A. Canivan, P.E., and Seth Hamblin, P.E., have been named co-chairs of DFI’s Driven Pile Committee. They take the helm from Pollyanna Cunningham of ICE® – International Construction Equipment, Inc.

January 3, 2023, Hawthorne, N.J.: DFI is accepting nominations for its 2023 awards and lectures, which showcase and celebrate the achievements and contributions of individuals, teams and companies in the deep foundations industry.

December 1, 2022, Hawthorne, N.J.: The DFI Board of Trustees has elected a new president and a new secretary starting in 2023. Incoming DFI President Gianfranco Di Cicco is president and CEO of Bauer Foundations, responsible for the Bauer Group on all U.S. construction operations. Di Cicco joined the DFI Board of Trustees in 2010 […]

November 3, 2022, Hawthorne, N.J.: DFI Europe, a regional chapter of Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), announces that Maurice Bottiau of Franki Foundations, Belgium, is the new president; Anne Lemnitzer, Ph.D., P.E., University of California, Irvine, is the new vice president; and Valérie Bernhardt, managing director of Setec-Terrasol in France, is joining the board starting in 2023.

October 28, 2022, Hawthorne, N.J.: Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces new chairs for three of its technical committees and an industry-wide working group.