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The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that Akio Kitamura, founder and president of Giken, is the recipient of the 2018 Ben C. Gerwick Award for Innovation in the Design and Construction of Marine Foundations.  The award is being presented at IFCEE 2018 on Thursday, March 8, 8:15 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. IFCEE 2018, being held […]

Registration opened on Monday, December 4, 2017, for the 2018 DFI-EFFC International Conference on Deep Foundations and Ground Improvement at Sapienza University, June 5-8, 2018. The conference explores the challenges of upcoming urban infrastructure megaprojects and highlights modern technologies and techniques available to overcome these challenges. Client representatives will present upcoming or in progress megaprojects […]

Dan Brown, P.E., president of DFI and president of Dan Brown and Associates, presented four President’s Awards at a luncheon during the DFI 42nd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in New Orleans on October 24-27.  Established in 2016, the award is given at the discretion of the DFI president to recognize the efforts and service […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is hosting its 43rd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, October 24-27, 2018, in Anaheim, Calif. The theme of the conference is Mastering the Challenge: Engineering for Complex Loading Conditions in the 21st Century.  The 2018 conference will feature technical presentations on innovations and advancements that address performance-based design and construction of […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is hosting its annual SuperPile conference on June 27-29, 2018, at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City.  SuperPile ‘18 is being organized by nine of DFI’s Technical Committees in partnership with ADSC. The three-day event will include presentations on the latest developments in augered cast-in-place/drilled displacement piles, drilled […]

Almost 1,000 attendees from around the world joined DFI at its 42nd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, October 24-27, in New Orleans. The conference featured more than 75 technical presentations, 120+ exhibits of innovative products and services, technical committee and working group meetings, poster presentations, networking events and the annual awards ceremony. A highlight of […]

Sarah Mobley, P.E., doctoral student, and Kelly Costello, E.I., doctoral candidate, from the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of South Florida, are the winners of the 2017 DFI and DFI Educational Trust Student Paper Competition. Their winning paper, “The Effect of Slurry Type on Drilled Shaft Cover Quality,” presented the findings […]

The DFI and DFI Educational Trust 2017 Young Professor Paper Competition winner is Arash Khosravifar, Ph.D., P.E., from the geotechnical engineering group in civil and environmental engineering department at Portland State University (PSU). In the winning paper, “Development of a Design Guideline for Bridge Pile Foundations subjected to Liquefaction-induced Lateral Spreading”, Dr. Khosravifar, along with […]

For the third year, the DFI Educational Trust is participating in #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving that connects diverse groups of individuals, communities and organizations around the world for one common purpose: to celebrate and encourage giving. Occurring this year on November 28, #GivingTuesday is held annually on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving (in the […]

DFI Europe, a regional chapter of the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), announces its new secretariat, Monika De Vos. De Vos is the deputy head of the geotechnical division of the Belgium Building Research Institute (BBRI, Belgium), and head of Laboratory of Geotechnics and Monitoring at BBRI. She has been with BBRI since 1991 and is […]