2015

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that S. Scot Litke, D.GE (Hon.), past editor of ADSC’s Foundation Drilling magazine, is the author of a new column for Deep Foundations, DFI’s flagship publication. The column, Beneath the Surface, shares useful insights and guidance on managing business and advancing careers in the deep foundations industry. The column will […]

Gerald Verbeek, of Allnamics Pile Testing Experts BV, has accepted the position of chair of DFI’s Testing and Evaluation Committee. Verbeek succeeds outgoing chair, Don Robertson of Applied Foundation Testing, who led the committee since 2013. In 2004, after 20 years in the oil and gas industry, Verbeek started VMS, a management consulting business. One […]

DFI announces a call for entries for its major 2015 Awards. Submissions for the 2015 Awards are due by April 15, 2015. Information and nomination forms are available at archive.dfi.org/awardslectures.asp. The first three awards are presented at DFI’s Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, this year in Oakland, CA, October 12-15, 2015. The Outstanding Project Award […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is hosting its eighth annual SuperPile conference on May 6-8, 2015, at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Kissimmee, FL. SuperPile ’15, a collaboration of nine DFI Technical Committees, will include presentations on the latest developments in driven piles, augered cast-in-place/drilled displacement piles, micropiles, marine foundations, testing and […]

M. Byrl Williams, P.E., chief engineer, of Foundation Constructors, Inc., Oakley, Calif., was elected chair of the DFI Educational Trust Board of Trustees, beginning in January 2015. He succeeded David Coleman, who stepped down as chair and retired from the board of trustees. Williams is one of the original trustees who established the Trust in […]

Theresa Engler, executive director of Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), has been named a board member of the Academy of Geo-Professionals (AGP), an elite group comprised of about 275 Diplomates, Geotechnical Engineering (D.GE), who have gone through many years of training and experience to become eligible for Board Certification. Engler (formerly Rappaport) has been the executive […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that Proserve is the recipient of the 2015 Ben C. Gerwick Award for Innovation in Design and Construction of Marine Foundations for the development of the Proserve Grout Bag. The award will be presented at IFCEE 2015 (International Foundations Congress and Equipment Expo), March 17-21, 2015 at the JW Marriott […]