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Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that Lucky Nagarajan, general manager-engineering and business development for Giken America, is the new chair of the DFI Women in Deep Foundations (WiDF) Committee. She succeeds Maysill Pascal, P.E., senior regional engineer/sales manager for USW, a Menard Group USA Company. The WiDF Committee is a group of women and men […]

Kalavacharla Sree (K.S.) Rama Krishna, Ph.D., geotechnical consultant, chair of DFI of India and a member of the DFI Board of Trustees, is the recipient of DFI’s highest award 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. […]

DFI’s Women in Deep Foundations (WiDF) Committee has launched a new video, “What is the geotechnical field?”  The 4-minute video features DFI members showcasing the many roles and career opportunities available in the geotechnical field. The video promotes a link to a web page with resources for more information.  DFI encourages companies and professionals in […]

Abstracts are being accepted for presentations at SuperPile 2021, a piling design and construction conference being hosted by DFI in partnership with ADSC. Abstracts are due Friday, October 30, 2020, and can be submitted at archive.dfi.org/SuperPile2021. The 15th annual SuperPile Conference is taking place June 23-25, 2021, at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel. This three-day […]

The winner of the 2020 DFI Outstanding Project Award (OPA) is the team of Langan Engineering and Environmental Services (geotechnical and environmental services), Malcolm Drilling Company (foundation contractor), and Condon-Johnson & Associates (shoring contractor) for the innovative foundation design of the Chase Center in San Francisco. The award is being presented during the DFI 45th […]

& DFI 2021 Middle East Conference: Geotechnical Engineering for Delivering Sustainable, Cost-Effective Projects DFI is accepting presentation abstracts for two upcoming events being hosted by DFI Middle East: a one-day workshop on November 10, 2020, during GeoMEast in Cairo, and the fifth annual DFI Middle East Conference being held February 16-18, 2021, in Dubai. Abstracts […]

Registration is open for DFI’s 2020 Energy Foundations Webinar Series. This webinar series, organized by DFI’s Energy Foundations Committee, outlines good practice for designing and installing energy foundation systems to provide sustainable heating and cooling solutions. Energy foundations are ground sourced heat pump systems that use geothermal loops installed within foundations and structures to transfer […]

DFI and the DFI Testing & Evaluation Committee continues the ITS Money (Increased Testing Saves Money) Webinar Series with a second webinar on June 3 and a third on August 12.  The webinars demonstrate how foundation testing conducted during the design phase can provide data that optimizes foundation designs and construction procedures, thereby saving money […]

The Metro NYC section of DFI’s Women in Deep Foundations (WiDF) Committee is presenting a series of webinars to support and connect industry participants during this challenging COVID-19 time. The webinar series includes guest presenters discussing thought-provoking issues related to moving past the crisis to accepting opportunities it could provide for a better tomorrow. Each […]

Registration is now open at archive.dfi.org/S3-2020 for DFI’s S3: Slopes, Slides and Stabilization webinar being held Wednesday, August 5, from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST (US). The webinar is part of an ongoing software discussion series for DFI’s S3: Slopes, Slides and Stabilization conferences developed to further industry understanding of the use of software […]