2017

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, recently appointed a new chair, officers and a new trustee.  Dan Dragone, chief sales officer of BAUER-Pileco Inc., is the new chair of the Board of Trustees of the DFI Educational Trust, effective January 1. He succeeds M. Byrl Williams who will retire […]

The 12th Annual DFI Educational Trust Gala Fundraising Dinner took place on November 9, 2017, at Terrace On The Park in Corona, N.Y. The gala was attended by 168 guests and raised over $51,000. Proceeds from the dinner benefit the George J. Tamaro Manhattan College Civil Engineering Scholarship Fund, established in 2016.  This year, four […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that Akio Kitamura, founder and president of Giken, is the recipient of the 2018 Ben C. Gerwick Award for Innovation in the Design and Construction of Marine Foundations.  The award is being presented at IFCEE 2018 on Thursday, March 8, 8:15 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. IFCEE 2018, being held […]

John A. (Jack) Hayes, P. Eng., D.I.C., founder and former president of Loadtest, Inc., is presenting the DFI 2018 Osterberg Memorial Lecturer at IFCEE 2018 on Thursday, March 8, 7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. IFCEE 2018 being held March 5-10, 2018, at the Hilton Orlando Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Fla., is hosted by DFI, […]

Registration opened on Monday, December 4, 2017, for the 2018 DFI-EFFC International Conference on Deep Foundations and Ground Improvement at Sapienza University, June 5-8, 2018. The conference explores the challenges of upcoming urban infrastructure megaprojects and highlights modern technologies and techniques available to overcome these challenges. Client representatives will present upcoming or in progress megaprojects […]

Dan Brown, P.E., president of DFI and president of Dan Brown and Associates, presented four President’s Awards at a luncheon during the DFI 42nd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in New Orleans on October 24-27.  Established in 2016, the award is given at the discretion of the DFI president to recognize the efforts and service […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is hosting its annual SuperPile conference on June 27-29, 2018, at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City.  SuperPile ‘18 is being organized by nine of DFI’s Technical Committees in partnership with ADSC. The three-day event will include presentations on the latest developments in augered cast-in-place/drilled displacement piles, drilled […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is hosting its 43rd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, October 24-27, 2018, in Anaheim, Calif. The theme of the conference is Mastering the Challenge: Engineering for Complex Loading Conditions in the 21st Century.  The 2018 conference will feature technical presentations on innovations and advancements that address performance-based design and construction of […]

Almost 1,000 attendees from around the world joined DFI at its 42nd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, October 24-27, in New Orleans. The conference featured more than 75 technical presentations, 120+ exhibits of innovative products and services, technical committee and working group meetings, poster presentations, networking events and the annual awards ceremony. A highlight of […]

The DFI and DFI Educational Trust 2017 Young Professor Paper Competition winner is Arash Khosravifar, Ph.D., P.E., from the geotechnical engineering group in civil and environmental engineering department at Portland State University (PSU). In the winning paper, “Development of a Design Guideline for Bridge Pile Foundations subjected to Liquefaction-induced Lateral Spreading”, Dr. Khosravifar, along with […]