2014

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust (www.dfitrust.org), the charitable arm of DFI, recently appointed a new member to the Board of Trustees. Lars Richter was elected to serve as an at-large trustee for a two-year term. Richter is the general manager of AECON Foundations (Canada). Prior to AECON, Richter was business unit leader at […]

The Ground Improvement Committee of the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces the availability a new wick drain specification and two papers published in the DFI Journal. The DFI Wick Drain Guide Specification covers materials, installation and quality control and assurance for wick drain projects. It is available as an editable MS Word document to be […]

The DFI-EFFC International Conference on Deep Foundations & Piling, May 21-23 in Stockholm, Sweden features 23 technical presentations in five sessions: Harmonization of Execution Standards, Bored and Driven Piles, Deep Mixing – Wet and Dry Methods, Walls – In-situ and Preformed, and New Trends in Foundation Practice. Sessions 1-4 feature keynote lectures by leading industry […]

DFI announces the appointment of Carlos Englert of Schnabel Engineering as chair of DFI’s Sustainability Committee. He is succeeding Marine Lasne of Entroprose Contracting, who accepted a position on the DFI Board of Trustees. Englert is a senior engineer at Schnabel Engineering. He has over 15 years of design and construction experience in geotechnical projects […]

The International Society for Micropiles (ISM), in alliance with ADSC and DFI, will host the 12th International Workshop on Micropiles in Kraków, Poland, June 11–14, 2014. The 2.5-day workshop includes technical presentations on innovations and advancements in all aspects of micropile design, construction and use. Highlights of the workshop include: Introduction of the Lizzi Lecturer […]

DFI has elected the following new members to its Board of Trustees, and expanded the membership from 18-21 trustees to include DFI’s three regional chapter chairs. Frank Haehnig, Dipl. Ing., leads the international ground engineering division within Zueblin Spezialtiefbau, Germany, and is also CEO for the North American operations. Since 2012 he has been the […]

DFI announces the appointment of Professor Vern Schaefer of Iowa State University as chair of DFI’s Committee on Deep Foundations for Landslides and Slope Stabilization. He is succeeding Professor Erik Loehr of University of Missouri, who accepted a position on the DFI Board of Trustees. Schaefer is the Focus Group Leader of Geotechnical & Materials […]

The annual Hal Hunt Lecturer for DFI’s 39th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Atlanta this upcoming October, is Paul W. Mayne, Ph.D., P.E., professor of Geosystems Engineering, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The lecture is a highlight of the Annual Conference, and is named after Hal Hunt, […]

Maney Publishing and the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) are pleased to announce the appointment of Anne Lemnitzer and Timothy C. Siegel as the new co-editors of DFI Journal: The Journal of the Deep Foundations Institute. They will succeed lead editors Ali Porbaha and Dan Brown, who are stepping down after being editors since the Journal’s […]

DFI announces a call for entries for its major 2014 Awards. Submissions for the 2014 Awards are due by April 15, 2014. 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 Atlanta, GA, October 21-24, 2014. The Outstanding Project Award […]