2020

DFI 2021 Middle East Conference: Geotechnical Engineering for Delivering Sustainable, Cost-Effective Projects December 15, 2020, Hawthorne N.J.: Registration is open for the DFI Middle East Conference being held online on February 16-18, 2021. The theme of the fifth DFI Middle East conference is “Geotechnical Engineering for Delivering Sustainable, Cost-Effective Projects.” There are four technical sessions: This conference, organized […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces the availability of a new edition of the DFI Journal, a peer-reviewed publication of high-quality technical papers.  DFI Journal, Volume 14, Issue 1, includes a strong mix of research and case study papers.  RESEARCH PAPER: “Theoretical “t-z” Curves for Piles in Radially Inhomogeneous Soil,” by Abigail H. Bateman and Jamie […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that Sapir Engineering and Under Water Anchoring, of Ravenna, Italy, are the winners of the 2020 Ben C. Gerwick Award for Innovation in the Design and Construction of Marine Foundations. The companies are being recognized for their Underwater Tie-back Anchoring System. The innovative system is designed for the reinforcement and […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, announces the establishment of a new scholarship. The Goble Rausche Likins Scholarship Fund was established in October 2020 with a generous donation from GRL Engineers, Inc. (GRL) and Pile Dynamics, Inc. (PDI).  The fund honors George G. Goble, Frank Rausche and Garland E. […]

DFI Europe, a regional chapter of the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), announces Anne Lemnitzer and Stig Weiss have joined its Board of Trustees as new members.  Anne Lemnitzer, Ph.D., P.E., is on the faculty in geotechnical engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and is a visiting scholar at the University of Applied Sciences, Leipzig, […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces new chairs for two of its 28 Technical Committees: Sustainability Committee and Testing & Evaluation Committee.  Gerald Verbeek, of Verbeek Management Systems (VMS) and Allnamics Pile Testing Experts, has taken the helm of DFI’s Sustainability Committee. He was recently the chair of the Testing & Evaluation Committee.  Verbeek is very […]

Matthew Janes, MBA., P.Eng, of Isherwood Associates and president of DFI, presented four President’s Awards at the business meeting during the DFI 45th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations held online October 29.  Established in 2016, the DFI President’s Awards are given at the discretion of the DFI president to recognize the efforts and service of […]

Erik Loehr, Ph.D., P.E., Logan Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Missouri and a senior principal engineer with Dan Brown and Associates, has been invited to present the DFI Osterberg Memorial Lecture at the International Foundations Congress and Equipment Exposition (IFCEE 2021). The event, being held at the Hyatt Regency Dallas […]

DFI announces the winners of the 2020 Paper Competitions.  Alejandro Martinez, Ph.D., assistant professor, and Kyle O’Hara, Ph.D., graduate student researcher, University of California, Davis, are the winners of the Young Professor Paper Competition. Their paper, “Applications of Frictional Directionality for Monotonically- and Cyclically-loaded Piles,” describes the load-transfer behavior of piles with surface inspired by […]

/columns Michael Sherman, director of policy and research with the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), is presenting the 2020 Hal Hunt Lecture on Communications during the DFI 45th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, being held live online October 27-30, 2020.  The lecture, on Wednesday, October 28, is titled, “An Overview of the Federal Commemorative Works […]