Committee & Regional News

January 7, 2022, Hawthorne, N.J.: Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, recently awarded scholarships from the Stanley Merjan City College of New York (CCNY) Civil Engineering Scholarship Fund and the George J. Tamaro Manhattan College Civil Engineering Scholarship Fund.

January 5, 2022, Hawthorne, N.J.: Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces Scott A. Jacobs, P.E., of Keller, is the new co-chair of the Working Platforms Industry-Wide Working Group. He joins co-chair, Terence Holman, Ph.D., P.E., Geosyntec Consultants, and takes over for Paul Gildea, P.E., Langan Engineering and Environmental Services.

December 17, 2021, Hawthorne, N.J.: DFI is accepting nominations for its 2022 awards and lectures, which showcase and celebrate the achievements and contributions of individuals, teams and companies in the deep foundations industry.

December 14, 2021, Hawthorne, N.J.: DFI and the DFI Educational Trust announce that the Call for Papers is open for the annual Student Paper Competition and Young Professor Paper Competition. The due date for abstract submissions is January 14, 2022.

December 14, 2021, Hawthorne, N.J.: Abstracts are being accepted until January 14 for original technical papers and panel sessions for the DFI’s 47th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations (#DFI47), being held October 4-7, 2022, in National Harbor, Maryland.

December 1, 2021, 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.

November 23, 2021, Hawthorne, N.J.: Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces the release of three new technical publications and an educational PowerPoint presentation available at no cost online at archive.dfi.org/publications/new-publications as well as several research reports by DFI technical committees.

November 18, 2021, Hawthorne, N.J.: Registration is open for the 6th International Conference on Grouting and Deep Mixing, being held February 13-16, 2022, at the New Orleans Marriott in New Orleans, Louisiana. This conference is being presented by Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and the International Conference Organization for Grouting (ICOG), with support from Geo-Institute’s Grouting Committee.

September 1, 2021, Hawthorne N.J.: Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces Kathleen Bensko, P.G., Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [FERC], U.S., and Raffaella Granata, Trevi, Italy, as the new co-chairs of its International Grouting Committee. They take the helm in October from inaugural chairs Paolo Gazzarrini, P.Eng., Sea to Sky Geotech, Canada, and Piero Roberti, Bauer Foundation […]

August 12, 2021, Hawthorne N.J.: DFI Europe and The Royal Institute of Engineers (KIVI) in the Netherlands are organizing a one-day Pile Load Testing Seminar on October 21 in The Hague. This seminar will provide new insights on static load tests in compression, tension and lateral loading, as well as on rapid and dynamic load […]