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DFI announces the formation of the Project Information Management Systems Committee. This new technical committee was formed in response to a trend in the industry towards digitalization of data and the increase in use of data management and geospatial tools including Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Building Information Management (BIM).  The committee’s mandate is to […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust (www.dfitrust.org), the charitable arm of DFI, announces the establishment of the Fred H. Kulhawy Memorial Scholarship Fund. The fund, which honors Professor Kulhawy’s contribution to the deep foundations industry, will provide At-Large Scholarships to students enrolled full-time in an undergraduate or graduate civil engineering program at any accredited […]

Keynote lecturers and invited speakers are confirmed for the 2018 DFI-EFFC International Conference on Deep Foundations and Ground Improvement at Sapienza University, June 5-8, 2018. Eight industry experts are presenting Keynote Lectures during parallel sessions at the conference. Session on Deep Foundations Technologies Codes, New Technologies and Quality in Deep Foundations, Maurice Bottiau, Franki Foundations […]

The complete technical program for SuperPile ’18 is available online at www.dfi-superpile.org. The conference, hosted by DFI in partnership with ADSC, is being held on June 27-29, 2018, at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City.  Pre-conference activities on Wednesday, June 27, include DFI Technical Committee meetings and the DFI Women in Deep […]

DFI and the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) at Rutgers University have joined forces to host a Deep Mixing and Sand Compaction Piles Technical Seminar on April 24 at Rutgers University – Busch Campus in Piscataway, N.J.  This one-day seminar covers detailed design procedures and construction of these two foundation techniques highlighted with […]

The International Society for Micropiles (ISM), ADSC and DFI are hosting the 14th International Workshop on Micropiles on August 21-24, 2019, in Sofitel Broadbeach, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The Workshop provides an opportunity for members to meet, present and exchange data, and share experiences and developments on a relatively informal basis. The Workshop includes technical […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, recently appointed Helen Robinson, P.E., to the Board of Trustees.  Robinson, of GEI Consultants, is serving as an At-Large Trustee for a period of two years starting January 1, 2018. Robinson is currently the chair of DFI’s Women in Deep Foundations (WiDF) Committee. Under […]

Four students at City College of New York (CCNY) have received scholarship awards from the DFI Educational Trust Stanley Merjan Civil Engineering Scholarship Fund.  Chaddy Ismail is a structural civil engineering senior. He is currently a research assistant on a project studying how bridge deterioration affects traffic patterns. After graduating from CCNY, he plans to earn […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that Michele Jamiolkowski, emeritus professor of civil engineering at the Technical University of Torino in Italy, will present the 11th John Mitchell Lecture.  He will speak at the DFI-EFFC International Conference on Deep Foundations and Ground Improvement being held June 5-8, 2018, at Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. His presentation, […]

Registration opens on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at noon EST, for DFI’s SuperPile ’18 being held June 27-29, 2018, at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City. Attendees, exhibitors and sponsors can register at www.dfi-superpile.org.  This three-day event highlights the latest developments in augered cast-in-place and drilled displacement piles, drilled shafts, driven piles, […]