results. He was admitted to The Moles in 1994 and served as its president in 2013, and presently serves as the president of the General Contractors Association (GCA) of New York. Hourani is a professor, past chair of the civil and environmental engineering department and current director of graduate programs at Manhattan College. He championed a partnership with the GCA of NY in a program for training construction management in Minority, Women and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (MWDBE) participation. He also conducts the engineering awareness programs for local high schools and has acted to revitalize Manhattan College’s commitment to diversity and inclusion by supporting minorities and women in engineering. TEI Rock Drills is offering two sessions of its Hollow Bar School in 2019. Students will learn from industry experts through classroom and field training about the process and best practices of installing hollow bar micropiles for soil stabilization. Various aspects of hollow bar installation will be taught including the TEI method for installation, grouting principles, an overview of micropile and soil nail design, and step-by-step instructions on how to properly test a hollow bar micropile. Case studies from geotechnical contractors will be emphasized. Instructors also cover the operation, maintenance, and trouble- shooting of each piece of equipment. The Hollow Bar School will take place in Montrose, Colo. on June 2-4 and June 5-7. Each session is limited to 32 participants, and provides 16 hours of training by highly-regarded professionals with a ratio of one instructor per every two students. To register, call Sydnie at 1-800-777-3745 or email [email protected]. Prof. Jean-Louis Briaud delivered the Langan Lecture in New York City on October 18, 2018, on the topic of excavation support with deep soil mixing. Briaud is a distinguished professor at Texas A&M University, a distinguished member of ASCE, and is a candidate for president of ASCE. Email Prof. Briaud at [email protected] for a copy of the presentation. 102 • DEEP FOUNDATIONS • JAN/FEB 2019 CTL|Thompson announced that Bill Hoffmann, P.E., senior principal engineer and head of its Southern Colorado practice, was named to the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) College of Fellows. Hoffmann has served as a national director of ACEC and was president of ACEC’s Colorado member organization. Hoffmann has spent his entire engineering career with CTL|Thompson, serving on its corporate leadership team, as senior principal engineer, and managing the Colorado Springs and Pueblo divisions. He is past president and founder of the Southern Colorado section of the Colorado Association of Geotechnical Engineers and an active member of the HBA of Southern Colorado and the Association of General Contractors of Southern Colorado (AGC- SOCO). He also serves the industry nationally through the American Society of Civil Engineers. ECA joined BAUER Equipment America (BEA) in hosting 36 distinguished guests at the annual BAUER Oktoberfest Event in Germany from October 17-21, 2018. This year’s agenda included BAUER product presentations, guided tour and product demonstrations at BAUER Maschinen’s Aresing and Edelshausen factories, a visit to the BETEK facility in Aichhalden, jobsite visits in Stuttgart and Frankfurt, a guided tour of KLEMM’s Drolshagen factory, sightseeing in Cologne and Okto- berfest in Munich. In October 2018, BAUER Maschinen Group sold its diesel hammer product line and associated brand name Pileco to Wang LLC, a subsidiary of Wuxi Xinren Universal Machinery, a long-standing supplier and partner to Bauer. The sale was due to market developments in the diesel hammer sector in the U.S. and to the fact that the product no longer suits Bauer’s overall portfolio. The Texas subsidiary of BAUER Maschinen in Houston will remain under the leadership of Jochen Grundmann and operate under the new name BAUER Equipment America (BEA). BEA will continue to be an important base for the sale of Bauer’s entire range of specialist foundation engineering equipment in North America, and service and maintenance work will also be carried out at the Conroe Park West industrial park.
