2017

George K. Burke, P.E., D.GE, is the recipient of DFI’s highest award to an individual, the Distinguished Service Award (DSA). This award recognizes individuals who have made exceptionally valuable contributions to the advancement of the deep foundations industry. The award will be presented at the Awards Banquet during DFI’s 42nd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations […]

More than 350 deep foundation professionals attended SuperPile ’17 on June 14-16, 2017, at Loews Coronado Bay Resort, Coronado, Calif.  This conference, hosted by DFI in partnership with ADSC, was supported by nine DFI Technical Committees: Augered Cast-in-Place Piles, Drilled Shafts, Driven Piles, Ground Improvement, Helical Piles and Tiebacks, Marine Foundations, Micropiles, Seismic and Lateral […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces four keynote speakers for the 42nd Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, being held in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 24-27, 2017.    David B. Paul, P.E., special assistant for Dam Safety with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is providing an update on the “USACE Oversight of Remediation of the World’s Highest […]

The International Society for Micropiles (ISM) has announced Dan MacLean, P.Eng., as new chairman, succeeding acting chair, Allen W. Cadden of Schnabel Engineering. MacLean is currently the business development manager at the regional office of Geo-Foundations Contractors in Acton, Ontario, Canada. MacLean has spent the past 15 years working in the geotechnical industry. Starting as […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is proud to announce that two groups have been selected to receive the 2017 Outstanding Project Award (OPA). Berkel & Company Contractors is being recognized for the renovation and rehabilitation project on the Andrew Mellon Building, a National Historic Landmark, at 1785 Massachusetts Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.  Moffatt & Nichol, […]

Deep Foundations Institute’s (DFI) Helical Piles and Tiebacks Committee is hosting a one-day seminar on the detailed design, application and installation of helical piles and tiebacks for new construction and rehabilitation. The seminar is being held on September 18-19, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Topics include axial, lateral, uplift, seismic, cyclic and dynamic loading; settlement analyses; […]

The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust recently awarded several scholarships to civil engineering students focusing on geotechnical and/or environmental engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The scholarships were awarded during the annual scholarship ceremony of the College of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The 2017 recipients of the Charles J. Berkel Memorial Scholarship […]

The Call for Abstracts is open for the DFI-EFFC International Conference on Deep Foundations and Ground Improvement at Sapienza University in Rome on June 5-8, 2018. The theme of the conference is Urbanization and Infrastructure Development: Future Challenges. International public and private clients are invited to present their upcoming programs for development of new infrastructure. […]

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is hosting a technical seminar, SSI: Stabilize, Support and Improve, on August 28-30, 2017, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington D.C. The conference, organized by several DFI Technical Committees, focuses on the effective application of deep foundations, ground improvement and soil mixing for stabilization of slopes and excavation support. This […]

 John R. Wolosick, P.E., D.GE., director of engineering at Hayward Baker’s Atlanta office, presented the Lizzi Lecture on March 30, 2017, at the 13th International Workshop on Micropiles in Vancouver, BC, Canada. His presentation, titled Loading Effects on Battered Micropiles in Compression, was the 9th annual Lizzi Lecture delivered since inauguration of the series in […]