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The DFI Educational Trust (www.trust.dfi.org) recently appointed three new members to the Board of Trustees. Tracy Brettmann, P.E., D.GE, is a vice president/regional manager for Berkel and Company Contractors in Houston. He has been involved with the design, installation and quality control of deep foundations for more than 20 years. Brettmann received his B.S. in […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is issuing a call for papers for The DFI Journal, a peer-reviewed publication of practice-oriented, high quality papers related to the broad area of deep foundations engineering. The DFI Journal is in its seventh year of publication. Original papers are welcome on topics of interest to the geo-professional community related […]

Patrick Bermingham, CEO of Bermingham Foundation Solutions, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, was awarded the Ben C. Gerwick Award for Innovation in Design and Construction of Marine Foundations at a dinner in early December at the DFI Marine Foundation Seminar in Norfolk, Va. The annual award recognizes innovative excellence in the design and construction of marine foundations, […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces a call for entries for its major 2013 awards. Submissions for the 2013 Awards are due by April 15, 2013. Guidelines and nomination forms are available at archive.dfi.org/about.asp. The first three awards are presented at DFI’s Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, this year in Phoenix, AZ, on September 27. […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) presented the 2012 Outstanding Project Award (OPA) to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for the design and construction of the Route 9A Pedestrian Tunnel at the World Trade Center in New York City. The award was presented to Robert Yin of the Port Authority of New […]

David B. Coleman received one of the Deep Foundations Institute’s (DFI) highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award, in October during the DFI’s 37th Annual Conference in Houston. He was the 32nd recipient of the award, designated for individuals or companies chosen by their peers for exceptionally valuable contributions to the deep foundations industry. Coleman served […]

The Deep Foundation Institute (DFI) presented the inaugural C. William Bermingham Innovation Award to the team of Nicholson Construction Company and Bermingham Foundation Solutions Ltd, at DFI’s 37th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Houston, TX. The team – Luca Barison, Larry Goff and Laurent Lefebvre, of Nicholson Construction, and Michael Justason, Stefano Gabaldo, and […]

Co-authors Dr. John McCartney and Kyle Murphy, professors at the University of Colorado Boulder, shared honors as winners of the DFI Young Professor Paper Competition award presented at the DFI 37th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in October in Houston. The paper, “Seasonal Strain Distributions in Full-Scale Energy Foundations,” focuses on the seasonal thermo-mechanical response […]