2019

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and the European Federation of Foundation Contractors (EFFC) are pleased to announce the release of the EFFC/DFI Guide to Support Fluids for Deep Foundations, Edition 1.  The guide represents the state of the art of support fluid practice and aims to improve existing design, testing and practices for deep foundation elements […]

DFI’s SuperPile ’19, hosted in partnership with ADSC, is taking place May 1-3 at the Sheraton Grand Seattle, Washington. The event focuses on the latest developments in augered cast-in-place/drilled displacement piles, drilled shafts, driven piles, ground improvement, helical piles and tiebacks, marine foundations, micropiles, testing and evaluation of foundation systems, and seismic and lateral loads. […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, is accepting online applications for its At-Large Scholarship program and for the Michael L. Condon Civil Engineering Scholarship for academic year 2019-20. Several At-Large Scholarships ranging from $2,000 – $5,000 each are being awarded in 2019, which can be used for funding tuition, […]

The DFI Educational Trust and the DFI Women in Deep Foundations Committee are awarding five grants of $1,750 each to women involved in design and/or construction of deep foundations to attend DFI’s 44th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Chicago, October 15-18, 2019. The grant includes free conference registration and covers related expenses for attending […]

Theresa Engler, executive director of Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), has been named Outstanding Association Executive by the New York Society of Association Executives (NYSAE). The award is being presented at the NYSAE Synergy Awards Luncheon on April 17 in New York City.  The Outstanding Association Executive Award recognizes a current executive who has contributed significantly […]

The International Society of Micropiles (ISM) is hosting its 14th International Workshop on Micropiles on August 21-23, 2019, at the Sofitel Gold Coast Broadbeach hotel one hour south of Brisbane. A highlight of the workshop is a presentation by special lecturer Dr. Stephen Buttling. With a career spanning 45 years as a geotechnical engineer working in […]

Samuel Paikowsky, Ph.D., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Massachusetts Lowell and president of GeoDynamica, is presenting the DFI 2019 Osterberg Memorial Lecture during the opening plenary session at SuperPile ’19 on Thursday, May 2 , 10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. The presentation is also being broadcast as a live webinar. SuperPile […]

Registration is open for DFI’s S3: Slope-Support-Stabilization Conference, August 6-8, at The Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, The Depot, Minnesota. This two-day technical conference, organized by eight DFI Technical Committees, focuses on the effective application of deep foundations, ground improvement and soil mixing for stabilization of slopes and excavation support. The state-of-the-practice technical program features presentations on […]

DFI Europe, a regional chapter of the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), announces a new member to its Board of Trustees.  Bjoern Boehle is head of the technical office of Keller Grundbau, Business Unit Central Europe. He has been involved in several major projects in Europe, including the city ring around Copenhagen (compensation grouting, jet grouting, […]

Call for abstracts are being accepted for DFI-India 2019, 9th Annual Conference on Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development in India, being held November 15-16, 2019, at the National Academy of Construction (NAC), Hyderabad, Telangana, India. This event is being organized by DFI of India in collaboration with NAC and Indian Geotechnical Society Hyderabad Chapter. […]