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January 6, 2023, Hawthorne, N.J.: Registration is open for the DFI-COPRI New York City Ports and Engineering Seminar being held March 16 at New York University Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn. The full day of learning and networking features speakers and presentations about projects in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area.

January 3, 2023, Hawthorne, N.J.: DFI is accepting nominations for its 2023 awards and lectures, which showcase and celebrate the achievements and contributions of individuals, teams and companies in the deep foundations industry.

December 1, 2022, Hawthorne, N.J.: The DFI Board of Trustees has elected a new president and a new secretary starting in 2023. Incoming DFI President Gianfranco Di Cicco is president and CEO of Bauer Foundations, responsible for the Bauer Group on all U.S. construction operations. Di Cicco joined the DFI Board of Trustees in 2010 […]

November 29, 2022, Hawthorne, N.J.: DFI and the International Conference Organization for Grouting (ICOG), with support from Geo-Institute’s Grouting Committee, are presenting the 6th International Conference on Grouting and Deep Mixing, January 15-18, 2023, in New Orleans. This legacy event celebrates 40 years of grouting technology and practices, covering all types of grouting for foundation projects.

November 15, 2022, Hawthorne, N.J.: Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, recently awarded scholarships from the Stanley Merjan City College of New York (CCNY) Civil Engineering Scholarship Fund and the George J. Tamaro Manhattan College Civil Engineering Scholarship Fund. The students were recognized at the 15th DFI Educational Trust Gala in New York on November 3.

November 3, 2022, Hawthorne, N.J.: DFI Europe, a regional chapter of Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), announces that Maurice Bottiau of Franki Foundations, Belgium, is the new president; Anne Lemnitzer, Ph.D., P.E., University of California, Irvine, is the new vice president; and Valérie Bernhardt, managing director of Setec-Terrasol in France, is joining the board starting in 2023.

October 28, 2022, Hawthorne, N.J.: Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces new chairs for three of its technical committees and an industry-wide working group.

October 28, 2022, Hawthorne, N.J.: DFI President Michael Wysockey, Ph.D., P.E., presented three President’s Awards at a luncheon during the DFI 47th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in National Harbor on October 6.

October 17, 2022, Hawthorne, N.J.: Abstracts are being accepted until Friday, January 13, for original technical papers and panel sessions for DFI’s 48th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations(#DFI48), being held October 31-November 3, 2023, in Seattle.

October 13, 2022, Hawthorne, N.J.: The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, announces that Pile Dynamics, Inc. (PDI) has donated $50,000 to its Goble Rausche Likins Scholarship Fund in honor of the company’s 50th anniversary.