2019

Registration is open for DFI’s ITS Money Webinar Series organized by the DFI Testing & Evaluation Committee. The webinars are streaming on October 2, 2019; December 4, 2019; and February 5, 2020, from 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EST. The webinars demonstrate how foundation testing conducted during the design phase can provide data that optimizes […]

More than 100 ISM members attended the 14th International Workshop for Micropiles (IWM) on August 21-23, 2019, at the Sofitel Gold Coast Broadbeach Hotel on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.  “The workshop was a great opportunity for members to meet, present and exchange data, and share experiences and developments on a relatively informal basis,” said […]

TITAN POLSKA, representing Europe, was selected as the winner of the Third World Cup of Micropiles by the delegates of the 14th International Workshop for Micropiles, hosted by the International Society for Micropiles (ISM) August 21-24, 2019, in Sofitel Broadbeach, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.  TITAN POLSKA was selected for its project, the Museum of the […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust is accepting applications for the 2019 George P. Kelley Memorial Scholarship, which provides scholarships to civil engineering students attending Drexel University. One $5,000 scholarship will be awarded in 2019. The deadline to apply is October 31, 2019. The George P. Kelley Memorial Scholarship was established in 2019 as part […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust is accepting applications for the 2019 Manuel Fine Civil Engineering Scholarship, which provides scholarships to undergraduate and graduate civil engineering students attending schools in the Province of Ontario. Two scholarships, in the amount of US$2,500 each, will be awarded in 2019. The deadline to apply is October 31, 2019. […]

More than 150 deep foundation professionals attended DFI’s S3: Slope-Support-Stabilization conference, August 6-9, at The Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, The Depot, Minnesota. This two-day technical conference, organized by eight DFI Technical Committees, focused on the effective application of deep foundations, ground improvement and soil mixing for stabilization of slopes and excavation support. The technical program featured […]

 Abstracts are being accepted for presentations at SuperPile ’20, a piling design and construction conference being hosted by DFI in partnership with ADSC. Abstracts are due September 27, 2019, and can be submitted at archive.dfi.org/SuperPile20. The 13th annual SuperPile Conference is taking place at the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark in Missouri. This three-day […]

DFI Europe, a regional chapter of the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), announces that Egbert van der Wal has joined its Board of Trustees as a new member.  Egbert van der Wal is manager of the engineering department at the Port of Rotterdam. The Port of Rotterdam is an international organization and plays a pioneering role […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, recently appointed Jonathan Huff, P.E., of Goettle, to the Board of Trustees. He is serving as an At-Large Trustee from August 1, 2019-December 31, 2020.  Huff is a design engineer/project manager and estimator for Goettle, where his responsibilities include engineering design, estimating, project management […]

In July, Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, awarded 23 scholarships totaling $60,000 to students pursuing careers in civil, and geotechnical engineering.  Thomas J. Wysockey Civil Engineering Scholarship ($5,000 each) Tyler Kleinsasser, graduate student, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology                           Hunter VanSchoubroek, freshman, Texas A&M University  John O’Malley Civil […]