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The inaugural conference on Piling and Ground Improvement Technology for the Modern Building and Infrastructure Sector in Melbourne, Australia, was a resounding success. The two-day international event on March 21-22, 2017, at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, was hosted by the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and the Piling and Foundation Specialists Federation (PFSF). More […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, recently appointed new board members.  Bernard (Bernie) Hertlein, FACI, M.ASCE, of GEI Consultants, was elected to serve a two-year term as an At-Large Trustee on the DFI Educational Trust Board. Hertlein has been involved in DFI for many years, serving as a board […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, is accepting online applications for its At-Large Scholarship program and the Michael L. Condon Civil Engineering Scholarship Fund, for academic year 2017-18. Several At-Large Scholarships ranging from $2,000 – $5,000 each are being awarded in 2017, which can be used for funding tuition, […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that Robert B. Bittner, P.E., a past president of DFI and president of Bittner-Shen Consulting Engineers, is the recipient of the 2017 Ben C. Gerwick Award for Innovation in Design and Construction of Marine Foundations. Bittner is being recognized for his 46-year career and body of work in the […]

The complete technical program for SuperPile ’17 is available online at www.dfi-superpile.org. The conference, hosted by DFI in partnership with ADSC, is being held on June 14-16, 2017, at Loews Coronado Bay Resort, Coronado, Calif. Pre-conference activities on Wednesday, June 14, include DFI Technical Committee and Working Group meetings, and the DFI Women in Deep […]

The DFI Educational Trust and the DFI Women in Deep Foundations Committee are awarding five grants of $1,750 each to women involved in design and/or construction of deep foundations to attend DFI’s 42nd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in New Orleans, October 24 – 27. The grant includes free conference registration and covers related expenses […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that Michael Kynett, P.E., levee safety program manager for the Engineering Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Sacramento District, is the new chair of the DFI Seepage Control Working Group (SCWG). He succeeds David Paul, special assistant on dam safety for USACE, who transitioned to the DFI […]

Richard J. Finno, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, civil engineering professor at Northwestern University, is presenting the DFI 2017 Osterberg Memorial Lecturer at DFI’s SuperPile ’17 conference being held June 14-16 at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort in Coronado Bay, Calif. The lecture, “Lessons (Re)learned from Geotechnical Failures,” ties back to Professor Osterberg’s Terzaghi Lecture titled “Necessary […]

DFI announces that the Call for Papers is open for the annual Student Paper Competition and Young Professor Paper Competition. Abstracts are due on Friday, March 10. The winners are invited to attend DFI’s 42nd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, October 24-27 in New Orleans to present their papers. Winners also receive free conference registration, […]

DFI and the Testing and Evaluation Committee announce the release of a video on Static Load Testing of Deep Foundations Elements: Top-Down and Bi-Directional Static Load Testing. The 24-minute tutorial presentation provides a brief summary of the current state of the practice for axial Static Load Testing. It shows how static load tests for various […]