2015

The Board of Trustees of the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) recently appointed a new member to the Board of Trustees of the DFI Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI. Judith Gorog-Petit was elected to serve as an at-large member for a two-year term. Gorog-Petit is currently CFO of Skyline Steel LLC, subsidiary of Nucor […]

Bernie Hertlein, FACI, M.ASCE, is the recipient of DFI’s highest award to an individual, the Distinguished Service Award (DSA). The annual award recognizes individuals who have made exceptionally valuable contributions to the advancement of the deep foundations industry. The award will be presented on October 14, 2015, during DFI’s 40th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is hosting four technical seminars in August, September and October. August 5-6: DFI’s Seismic and Lateral Loads Committee is hosting a specialty seminar at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott in Los Angeles, Calif., on Practical Deep Foundation Design and Construction for Seismic and Lateral Loads. Industry leaders will overview the design […]

Billy Beane, Oakland A’s general manager and the subject of the bestselling book and movie, Moneyball, will be the Deep Foundations Institute’s 2015 Hal Hunt Lecturer*. He will present the lecture on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 14, 2015, during the DFI’s 40th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Oakland, Calif., October 12-15, 2015. Considered […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces the Gerald Desmond Bridge “Cast-in-Drilled-Hole Grout Delivery System” as the winner of the 2015 C. William Bermingham Innovation Award. The award will be presented at DFI’s 40th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, October 12-15, Oakland, Calif., to the SFI Joint Venture team including Shimmick Construction, FCC Construction and Salini […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is proud to announce that the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge New East Span is the 2015 Outstanding Project Award (OPA) winner. The award will be presented to representatives of the T.Y. Lin International/ Moffatt & Nichol Joint Venture at the DFI 40th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Oakland, Calif., […]

Professor Kenji Ishihara, a world-renowned expert on earthquake geotechnology, will deliver a featured presentation titled, “Destruction of Seawalls and Coastal Dikes by Tsunami During the 2011 East-Japan Earthquake and their Restoration,” at DFI’s 40th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations on October 12-15 in Oakland, CA. Professor Ishihara graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1957. […]

Theresa Engler, executive director of Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), has been unanimously elected to The Moles, a fraternal organization of the heavy construction industry. The Moles is the most prestigious organization of its kind in the world. Moles members are leaders in their profession who are dedicated to promoting the industry and supporting their colleagues […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces the availability of the May 2015 edition of the DFI Journal, a peer-reviewed publication of high-quality papers. Volume 9, Number 1, includes the following papers: Load tests on drilled shaft foundations in moderately strong to strong limestone Static tests on instrumented piles affected by residual load Industry survey of […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust and Underpinning & Foundation Skanska, a DFI member company and deep foundations specialists headquartered in New York, hosted a field trip for the DFI Student Chapter at City College of New York (CCNY) on April 17 to the Bayonne Bridge project site. The project is the first time […]