2021

September 14, 2021, Hawthorne N.J.: Jim Abbott, Retired MLB Pitcher Jim Abbott, retired Major League Baseball pitcher, is presenting the 2021 Hal Hunt Lecture on Communications during DFI’s 46th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, being held October 12-15, 2021 in Las Vegas. The lecture is on Thursday, October 14 at 1:30 p.m.  Born in Flint, Michigan, […]

September 1, 2021, Hawthorne N.J.: Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces Kathleen Bensko, P.G., Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [FERC], U.S., and Raffaella Granata, Trevi, Italy, as the new co-chairs of its International Grouting Committee. They take the helm in October from inaugural chairs Paolo Gazzarrini, P.Eng., Sea to Sky Geotech, Canada, and Piero Roberti, Bauer Foundation […]

August 19, 2021, Hawthorne N.J.: Dale Biggers, P.E., a vice president at Boh Bros. Construction in New Orleans, is the recipient of DFI’s highest award bestowed to an individual, the Distinguished Service Award (DSA). This award recognizes individuals who have made exceptionally valuable contributions to the advancement of the deep foundations industry. The award is being presented […]

August 18, 2021, Hawthorne NJ: In July, Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, awarded 30 scholarships totaling $92,500 to students pursuing careers in civil and geotechnical engineering. “The pandemic brought unprecedented challenges. Thankfully the deep foundations industry and DFI’s membership continued to support the Trust with continued donations,” says Rudolph […]

August 2, 2021, Hawthorne NJ: DFI announces the winners of the 2021 Student Paper Competition.  Osama Drbe, a Ph.D. candidate at Western University London in Ontario, Canada, is the winner of the Student Paper Competition. His paper is titled, “Effect of Negative Skin Friction on Abutment Piles Design.” The paper discusses a comprehensive field monitoring […]

July 28, 2021, Hawthorne N.J.: Abstracts are being accepted for presentations at SuperPile ’22, a piling design and construction conference being hosted by DFI in partnership with ADSC. Abstracts are due September 24, 2021, and can be submitted at archive.dfi.org/SuperPile2022. The annual SuperPile Conference is taking place at the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark in Missouri. […]

July 27, 2021, Hawthorne N.J.: Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces the launch of its new podcast channel – Broadcasting Common Ground. In the first series, Interview with a Survivor, hosts Lucky Nagarajan and Tim Siegel, P.E., G.E., D.GE, will be speaking with industry experts about their near misses, problem projects and resolutions. The first episode, […]

July 13, 2021, Hawthorne N.J.: DFI Educational Trust has awarded five Women in Deep Foundations (WiDF) Professional Development Grants of $1,750 each to women working in the deep foundations industry. The recipients are invited to attend DFI’s 46th Annual Conference in Las Vegas, October 12-15. The grant includes complimentary conference registration and covers related expenses for attending the conference.

July 13, 2021, Hawthorne N.J.: Registration is open for DFI’s second Shotcrete Short Course, taking place November 8-10, 2021, at the  Table Mountain Inn and Edgar Mine in historic Golden, Colorado. Organized by DFI’s Tunneling and Underground Committee, this 2.75-day course covers engineering, mix designs, materials, equipment, ACI Codes and specifications, construction, inspection, QA/QC, and field demonstrations […]

June 30, 2021, Hawthorne N.J.: Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces Helen Robinson, P.E., PMP, D.GE, senior project manager and branch manager at GEI Consultants, as the new co-chair of its Micropile Committee, joining Pete Speier, P.E., of Williams Form Engineering, who represents ADSC: The International Association of Foundation Drilling for this joint committee.  Robinson succeeds […]