2018

DFI announces three new publications available at no cost from the Publications Store at archive.dfi.org. The publications are deliverables from research projects supported by the DFI Committee Project Fund and in-kind contributions. The Committee Project Fund was established in 2011 to fund DFI Technical Committee projects that advance the state of practice and understanding of […]

The 2018 DFI Outstanding Project Award (OPA) is being awarded to the team of Malcolm Drilling (specialty contractor), Arup (structural and geotechnical engineer) and Brierley Associates (support of excavation designer) for 181 Fremont Tower, a mixed-use high-rise building under construction in the dense urban core of the South of Market District of San Francisco, Calif.  […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that Maysill Pascal, P.E., senior regional engineer/sales manager for USW, a Menard Group USA Company, is the new chair of the DFI Women in Deep Foundations Committee. She succeeds Helen Robinson, P.E., senior project manager, GEI Consultants. The Women in Deep Foundations Committee is a group of women and men […]

The Third World Cup of Micropiles competition is being held at the 14th International Workshop on Micropiles, August 21-24, 2019, in Sofitel Broadbeach, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. This is an International Competition to seek out a micropile project that stands above all others. Five regions of the globe will compete to bring home the Micropile […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces the availability of the most recent edition of the DFI Journal, a peer-reviewed publication of high-quality technical papers. The combined issue, Volume 11, Number 2–3 is a special Award issue that includes the following papers from DFI’s Young Professor Paper Competition and the Student Paper Competition. “The Effect of Slurry […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust recently awarded several scholarships to civil engineering students focusing on geotechnical and/or environmental engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The scholarships were awarded during the Annual Civil and Environmental Engineering Awards Convocation and Luncheon.  The 2018 recipients of the Charles J. Berkel Memorial Scholarship were University […]

DFI announces the formation of the Tunneling and Underground Systems Committee. The committee is focused on identifying and facilitating the advancement of new methods and technologies for design, construction, inspection, maintenance and operation of tunnels and underground systems. Technical focus areas include conventional and mechanized excavation methods, design practices for tunnel liners, the use of […]

The conference program and schedule is available for the 2018 DFI-EFFC International Conference on Deep Foundations and Ground Improvement at Sapienza University, June 5-8, 2018. The conference explores the challenges of upcoming urban infrastructure megaprojects and highlights modern technologies and techniques available to overcome these challenges. The conference features a technical program providing opportunities to […]

The Call for Abstracts is now open for the 14th International Workshop on Micropiles on August 21-24, 2019, in Sofitel Broadbeach, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Papers are being accepted on all topics related to micropiles: state of practice and research, seismic design, applications, innovations, challenging subsurface conditions (karst, groundwater), historic renovation, load testing, numerical analysis, […]

Deep Foundations Institute of India (DFI of India), in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar and Indian Geotechnical Society Ahmedabad Chapter, will host DFI-India 2018: 8thConference on Deep Foundations Technologies for Infrastructure Development in India on November 15-17, 2018, at IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. This two-day conference follows seven successful DFI of India annual […]