• OSHA Online Safety Training
  Ongoing 
  Online training courses, including the OSHA 10/30 hour courses, are now available through DFI. Members receive a 10% discount - contact staff@dfi.org for your discount code!
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• DFI Educational Trust Annual Pittsburgh Golf Outing
  July 13, 2009 Pittsburgh, PA
  DFI's Educational Trust will hold their annual fundraising event at the Chartiers Country Club to raise monies for DFI's existing memorial and scholarships funds. Funds will benefit the future of the foundation industry through college scholarships and other educational opportunities.
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• DFI Educational Trust Annual Chicago Golf Outing
  July 27, 2009 Chicago, IL
  DFI’s Educational Trust will hold its Golf Outing at the Harborside International Golf Center to raise monies for DFI’s existing memorial and scholarship funds. Funds will benefit the future of the foundation industry through college scholarships and other educational opportunities. Sponsorships and donations are tax deductible.
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• Drilled Shaft Short Course: Design Methods for New Technology
  October 20, 2009 Kansas City, MO
  This short course on the design aspects of Drilled Displacement Piles, High Capacity Rock Sockets, Use of Polymer and Bentonite Slurries in Design and Use of Temporary and Permanent Casing in Design.
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• Augered Cast-in-Place/Drilled Displacement Piles Short Course
  October 20, 2009 Kansas City, MO
  This pre-conference short course provides state-of the-art information on the specific design, material, equipment and quality control constraints unique to ACIP and Drilled Displacement piles.
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• 34th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations
  October 20-23, 2009 Kansas City, MO
  Four Sessions over 3 days comprise a program featuring the experiences of professionals at work in today's challenging industry environment. Presenters will be selected from among abstracts submitted by the industry worldwide by an interdisciplinary committee of foundation industry leaders.
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• Now Available! Deep Marine Foundations - A Perspective on the Design and Construction of Deep Marine Foundations The book contains 40 papers covering issues relating to the design and construction of deep marine foundations.
• Job Opening Announced at DFI! DFI is seeking a technical activities manager. Read more...
• Download your free copy of "200 Questions and Answers on Practical Civil Engineering Works". Compiled by Vincent Chu author of The Civil FAQ published in Hong Kong Engineer magazine.

DFI Educational Trust
Established by DFI in 2006, the DFI Educational Trust
is an independent charitable foundation.

Its creation will enable better industry-academia
communications, build appeal of the construction industry to
students, and allow better professional education opportunities to persons in the geotechnical engineering and deep foundations construction fields. Learn more...

The Deep Foundations Institute is a not-for-profit association of contractors, engineers, manufacturers, suppliers, owners and academia. DFI's membership promotes understanding and advancement of the deep foundations & excavations construction industry through conferences, publications, and community. The technical committees, Augered Cast-In-Place Pile, Codes & Standards, Drilled Shaft, Driven Pile, Ground Improvement, Helical Foundations & Tiebacks, Marine Foundation, Micropiles, Slurry Wall, Soil Mixing, Testing and Evaluation, and Tiebacks & Soil Nailing provide industry leadership for these foundation systems, through the publication of Guides, Specifications and References and by providing educational programs.
The membership is international.

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