2019

DFI announces the formation of its 25th technical committee – the DFI International Grouting Committee.  The committee was formed following ongoing discussions and clarifications on the sometimes controversial differences in the international grouting industry. The primary initiative of the committee is to prepare general guidelines and specific documents summarizing the different international approaches and procedures […]

Registration is open for the DFI 44th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, (#DFI44), October 15-18, 2019, at the Hilton Chicago. Register to attend, exhibit or sponsor the conference at archive.dfi.org/Annual2019. The theme of the conference is > Future > Forward. The 2019 conference serves as a call to action to develop forward-thinking plans in deep […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that 2 of its 24 Technical Committees have new committee chairs starting in 2019.  Pollyanna Cunningham of International Construction Equipment Inc. (ICE ®), is the new chair of the DFI Driven Pile Committee, succeeding Benjamin Vance of Strata Geotech. Cunningham. In her position as the marketing and brand communications director […]

DFI’s membership elected two new members to the DFI Board of Trustees, re-elected four trustees and voted for a new roster of officers including a new president.  DFI Trustee Daniel R. MacLean, P.E., is the business development manager at Keller Foundations Ltd. in Canada. MacLean has more than 17 years of deep foundations experience, primarily […]