2014

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Deep Mixing 2015 will be held June 2-5, 2015, in San Francisco. DFI is managing this landmark event, which will provide a forum on important advances in materials, equipment, system design and project delivery mechanisms that have occurred since the last conference in 2009. The conference will serve as a forum for international exchange on […]

Frank Rausche, Ph.D., P.E., of GRL Engineers, Inc., has been selected as the DFI 2015 Osterberg Lecturer. The lecture will take place on Thursday, March 19, 2015, 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m., during the International Foundations Congress and Equipment Expo (IFCEE) at the JW Marriott Hill Country Resort and Spa in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. […]

DFI, along with ADSC, Geo-Institute of ASCE and the PDCA will host IFCEE 2015. The International Foundations Congress and Equipment Expo is the world’s largest equipment exhibition and technical conference dedicated to the deep foundations industry. It will be held March 17-21, 2015 at the JW Marriott Hill Country Resort & Spa in San Antonio, […]

Deep foundations professionals from all disciplines of the industry are invited to submit paper abstracts for the 40th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations. This milestone conference will be held in Oakland, CA, from October 12-15, 2015. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be presented by the authors at the conference […]