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In July, Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, awarded 20 scholarships totaling $52,500 to students pursuing careers in civil, and geotechnical engineering.  Thomas J. Wysockey Civil Engineering Scholarship ($5,000 each) Rocky Howard, senior, Texas A&M University Martin Wallace, graduate student, University of Missouri-Columbia  John O’Malley Civil Engineering Scholarship ($5,000) Nicolet […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces the “Soil Nail Launcher™” as the winner of the 2018 C. William Bermingham Innovation Award.  The award will be presented at DFI’s 43rd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Anaheim, Calif., October 24-27, 2018, to Al Ruckman, P.E., and Bob Barrett, P.G., founders of GeoStabilization International, a leading geohazard mitigation […]

Carl Lewis, one of the greatest Olympians of all time, is presenting the 2018 Hal Hunt Lecture on Communications, during the DFI 43rd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, being held in Anaheim, Calif., October 24-27, 2018. His presentation, “Taking Command: You Can Do That,” will focus on communications.  Lewis, a former American track and field athlete, […]

More than 550 deep foundation professionals attended SuperPile ’18 on June 27-29, 2018, at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City. This conference, hosted by DFI in partnership with ADSC, was supported by 10 DFI Technical Committees: Augered Cast-in-Place Piles, Drilled Shafts, Driven Piles, Ground Improvement, Helical Piles and Tiebacks, Marine Foundations, Micropiles, […]

Garland E. Likins Jr., P.E., cofounder, past president and consultant of Pile Dynamics, Inc. (PDI), 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. The award will be presented at the […]

Registration is open for the new DFI Energy Foundations Seminar being held on September 18 at the University of Illinois – Chicago.  This one-day seminar focuses on Practical Construction Aspects of Designing, Installing and Operating a Ground-Sourced Heat Pump Solution Connected to Energy Foundations. Speakers will detail good practice guidelines for designing and installing a […]

More than 400 people from 37 countries attended the DFI-EFFC International Conference on Deep Foundations and Ground Improvement at Sapienza University, June 5-8, 2018.  The conference explored the challenges of upcoming urban infrastructure megaprojects and highlighted modern technologies and techniques available to overcome these challenges. The technical program included keynote lectures on deep foundations technologies, […]

The 2018 DFI Outstanding Project Award (OPA) is being awarded to the team of Malcolm Drilling (specialty contractor), Arup (structural and geotechnical engineer) and Brierley Associates (support of excavation designer) for 181 Fremont Tower, a mixed-use high-rise building under construction in the dense urban core of the South of Market District of San Francisco, Calif.  […]

DFI announces three new publications available at no cost from the Publications Store at archive.dfi.org. The publications are deliverables from research projects supported by the DFI Committee Project Fund and in-kind contributions. The Committee Project Fund was established in 2011 to fund DFI Technical Committee projects that advance the state of practice and understanding of […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that Maysill Pascal, P.E., senior regional engineer/sales manager for USW, a Menard Group USA Company, is the new chair of the DFI Women in Deep Foundations Committee. She succeeds Helen Robinson, P.E., senior project manager, GEI Consultants. The Women in Deep Foundations Committee is a group of women and men […]