2017

December 12, 2017, Hawthorne, N.J.: 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. […]

December 12, 2017, Hawthorne, N.J.: 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 […]

December 5, 2017, Hawthorne, N.J.: 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 […]

December 5, 2017, Hawthorne, N.J.: 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 (http://www.ifcee2018.com) being held March 5-10, 2018, at the Hilton Orlando Buena Vista Palace in […]

November 21, 2017, Hawthorne, N.J.: 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 […]

November 1, 2017, Hawthorne, N.J.: 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 […]

November 1, 2017, Hawthorne, N.J.: Sarah Mobley, P.E., doctoral student, and Kelly Costello, E.I., doctoral candidate, from the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of South Florida, are the winners of the 2017 DFI and DFI Educational Trust Student Paper Competition. Their winning paper, “The Effect of Slurry Type on Drilled Shaft […]

October 9, 2017, Hawthorne, N.J.: For the third 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 28, #GivingTuesday is held annually on the […]

September 7, 2017, Hawthorne, N.J.: Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust is accepting applications for the 2017 Manuel Fine Civil Engineering Scholarship, which provides scholarships to undergraduate and graduate civil engineering students attending schools in the Province of Ontario. Two scholarships, in the amount of US$2,500 each, will be awarded in 2017. The deadline to […]

September 5, 2017, Hawthorne, N.J.: The DFI Educational Trust and the DFI Women in Deep Foundations (WiDF) Committee awarded five grants of $1,750 each to women involved in design and/or construction of deep foundations to attend DFI’s 42nd Annual Conference in New Orleans, October 24-27. The grant includes free conference registration and covers related expenses […]