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DFI announces a call for entries for its major 2015 Awards. Submissions for the 2015 Awards are due by April 15, 2015. Information and nomination forms are available at archive.dfi.org/awardslectures.asp. The first three awards are presented at DFI’s Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, this year in Oakland, CA, October 12-15, 2015. The Outstanding Project Award […]

Theresa Engler, executive director of Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), has been named a board member of the Academy of Geo-Professionals (AGP), an elite group comprised of about 275 Diplomates, Geotechnical Engineering (D.GE), who have gone through many years of training and experience to become eligible for Board Certification. Engler (formerly Rappaport) has been the executive […]

M. Byrl Williams, P.E., chief engineer, of Foundation Constructors, Inc., Oakley, Calif., was elected chair of the DFI Educational Trust Board of Trustees, beginning in January 2015. He succeeded David Coleman, who stepped down as chair and retired from the board of trustees. Williams is one of the original trustees who established the Trust in […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that Proserve is the recipient of the 2015 Ben C. Gerwick Award for Innovation in Design and Construction of Marine Foundations for the development of the Proserve Grout Bag. The award will be presented at IFCEE 2015 (International Foundations Congress and Equipment Expo), March 17-21, 2015 at the JW Marriott […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces the availability of the December 2014 edition of the DFI Journal, a peer-reviewed publication of high-quality papers. This special issue is dedicated to the state of practice of geothermal foundations, with a particular focus on energy pile foundations. Volume 8, Issue 2, includes the following papers: Outcomes from International […]

Winners of the 2014 Stanley Merjan City College of New York (CCNY) Civil Engineering Student Scholarships were announced at the DFI Educational Trust’s 9th Annual Gala Fundraising Dinner Thursday, November 6, 2014 at Liberty House in Jersey City, NJ. Tal Azulay, originally from Israel, is in his final year at CCNY majoring in civil engineering. […]

Three of the 16 DFI Technical Committees have new committee chairs. It is the role of the Technical Committees to focus on the unique issues of major methods and technologies and their applications within deep foundations and excavation, and to keep DFI members and the industry up to date with the state of practice through […]

DFI’s membership voted to elect four new members to the board and re-elect two members as follows. Their terms begin on January 1, 2015. Matthew E. Meyer, P.E., is a professional engineer registered in Florida, Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia, New York and Connecticut, with about 20 years of geotechnical engineering experience. He is the immediate […]

Benjamin Turner, Ph.D., candidate in geotechnical earthquake engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the winner of the DFI Educational Trust 2014 Student Paper Competition. His winning paper, “Evaluation of Influence on Lateral Spreading Displacement Demand for Adjacent Bridges,” uses data from two parallel, adjacent bridges crossing the Colorado River in Mexico that […]

Joseph Thomas Coe, Jr., Ph.D., of Temple University, is the winner of this year’s DFI Educational Trust Young Professors Paper Competition for his paper, “Comparison of Borehole Ultrasound and Borehole Radar in Evaluating the Length of Two Unknown Bridge Foundations.” Coe conducted a study where the length of foundations at two bridge sites in Philadelphia […]