2018

Four students at City College of New York (CCNY) have received scholarship awards from the DFI Educational Trust Stanley Merjan Civil Engineering Scholarship Fund.  Chaddy Ismail is a structural civil engineering senior. He is currently a research assistant on a project studying how bridge deterioration affects traffic patterns. After graduating from CCNY, he plans to earn […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that Michele Jamiolkowski, emeritus professor of civil engineering at the Technical University of Torino in Italy, will present the 11th John Mitchell Lecture.  He will speak at the DFI-EFFC International Conference on Deep Foundations and Ground Improvement being held June 5-8, 2018, at Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. His presentation, […]

Registration opens on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at noon EST, for DFI’s SuperPile ’18 being held June 27-29, 2018, at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City. Attendees, exhibitors and sponsors can register at www.dfi-superpile.org.  This three-day event highlights the latest developments in augered cast-in-place and drilled displacement piles, drilled shafts, driven piles, […]

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. Volume 11, Number 1 includes the following papers:              “Numerical and Experimental Simulation of T-Walls Supported by Battered Piles within a Levee Embankment,” J. B. Johnson, USACE; F. Vahedifard, Mississippi State University; P. Kokkali, Rensselaer Polytechnic […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust has awarded two Manuel Fine Civil Engineering Scholarships each in the amount of US$2,500.  Lauren Augustin is an undergraduate civil engineering student at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Augustin developed her interest in the deep foundation industry after a work term at a design-build construction firm, […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust awarded two of the three Langan Engineering & Environmental Services Legacy Scholarships in December. The fund was established in 2015 with a $200,000 donation from Langan Engineering & Environmental Services and an additional contribution of more than $100,000 generously made by many principals of Langan.  The fund, which […]

Registration is open for the DFI 43rd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, October 24-27, 2018, at the Hilton Hotel in Anaheim, Calif.  The theme of the conference is Mastering the Challenge: Engineering for Complex Loading Conditions in the 21st Century. The conference features technical presentations on innovations and advancements that address performance-based design and construction […]

DFI announces that the Call for Papers opens January 12, 2018, for the annual Student Paper Competition and Young Professor Paper Competition. Abstracts are due on Friday, March 9. The winners are invited to attend DFI’s 43rd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, October 24-27 in Anaheim, Calif., to present their papers. Winners also receive free […]

DFI announces a call for entries for its 2018 Awards, which showcase and celebrate the achievements and contributions of individuals, teams and companies in the deep foundations industry. Submissions for the 2018 Awards are due by April 15, 2018. Information and nomination forms are available at archive.dfi.org/awardslectures.asp. The awards are presented at DFI’s 43rd Annual […]

DFI’s membership elected a new member to the DFI Board of Trustees and re-elected four members. Their terms begin on January 1, 2018.  The new board member, Mike Kelley, is vice president and geotechnical business unit manager for DYWIDAG-Systems International. He is responsible for the overall P&L, planning and business development for DSI’s geotechnical products […]