2016

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, recently appointed a new board member. Andrew C. Verity was elected to serve a two-year term on the DFI Educational Trust Board of Trustees. Verity is currently a national account manager with Terracon Consultants in Dallas, Texas. After earning his degree in civil […]

The 11th Annual DFI Educational Trust Gala Fundraising Dinner on November 3, 2016, at Terrace On The Park in Flushing Meadows Park, N.Y., was attended by a record-breaking 168 guests and raised more than $110,000. Proceeds from the dinner benefit the newly-established George J. Tamaro Manhattan College Civil Engineering Scholarship Fund. The first Tamaro scholarships […]

DFI’s membership voted to elect three new members to the DFI Board of Trustees and re-elect four members. Their terms begin on January 1, 2017. David B. Paul, P.E., is the special assistant for dam safety at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) headquarters in Washington, D.C., responsible for managing the USACE’s portfolio of […]

John Wolosick, P.E., president of DFI and director of engineering at Hayward Baker, presented four President’s Awards at a luncheon during the DFI International Conference on Deep Foundations, Seepage Control and Remediation (41st Annual Conference) in New York City on October 12-15. This newly-established award is given at the discretion of the DFI President to […]

For the second year, The DFI Educational Trust is participating in #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving that connects diverse groups of individuals, communities and organizations around the world for one common purpose: to celebrate and encourage giving. Occurring this year on November 29, #GivingTuesday is held annually on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving (in the […]

The International Society for Micropiles (ISM), ADSC and DFI are hosting the 13th International Workshop on Micropiles in Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 29 to April 1, 2017. The theme of the workshop is Micropiles: Resisting and Remediating the Effects of Mother Nature, focusing on the application of micropiles to resist and remediate extreme events, geohazards, […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is hosting its tenth annual SuperPile conference on June 14-16, 2017, at Loews Coronado Bay, Coronado, Calif. SuperPile ‘17 (www.dfi-superpile.org) is being organized by nine of DFI’s Technical Committees in partnership with ADSC. The two-day event will include presentations on the latest developments in augered cast-in-place/drilled displacement piles, drilled shafts, […]

This year, 2016, marks the 10-year anniversary of the International Society for Micropiles (ISM). The society began as a workshop of colleagues dedicated to advancing the design, construction, research/development, education and dissemination of micropile technology, and has grown into an international forum for debate, advice, problem-solving and support for micropile specialists and nonspecialists throughout the […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is hosting its 42nd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, October 24-27, 2017, at the New Orleans Marriott in Louisiana. The conference will feature technical presentations focusing on deep foundations and ground improvement, and associated risks and mitigation practices. In addition to technical sessions, the conference includes meetings of the 18 […]

DFI and the DFI Soil Mixing Committee announce the release of Guidelines for Soil Mixing. The new publication provides an overview of the state of practice of Deep Mixing Methods (DMM) in North America as well as a guide specification for deep mixing work. The 80-page document focuses on constructability and feasibility considerations for deep […]