CONTENTS FEATURES Departments PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE The DFI Beehive .....................................7 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR UPDATE Membership Involvement — Expand Your Reach and Branch Out............................9 DFI ACTIVITIES Rome, SuperPile ’18 and the 43 Annual Conference on Deep Foundations; news about upcoming events, the DFI Journal and OneMine; and more.... ...................25 Updates on DFI-EFFC conference in rd REGIONAL REPORT DFI Europe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 EDUCATIONAL TRUST REPORT Announcing a new trustee, scholarship news, the Women in Deep Foundations Scholarship Grant, recent donors and upcoming Trust events.. . . . . . . . . . . . 59 TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES UPDATE Updates from the Codes and Standards and Subsurface Characterization for Deep Foundations Committees, and an update on the International Bridge Conference.. ....97 FHWA UPDATE Silas C. Nichols, P.E..............................99 BENEATH THE SURFACE How to Find Qualified Employees: Acquire a Company............................103 LEGALLY SPEAKING Contractors Do Not Assume All Risks for Satisfying Performance Specifications .109 DFI PEOPLE AND COMPANIES News about people, companies and products .............................................113 CALENDAR & AD INDEX.................116 91 Deep Foundation Specialty Contractor Risks on Design-Build Projects Alexander Filotti, M.B.A., P.E., and Richard D. Kalson, Esq. DEEP FOUNDATIONS The Magazine of the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) is published bimonthly by DFI. 326 Lafayette Avenue Hawthorne, NJ 07506 USA T: (973) 423-4030 | F: (973) 423-4031 Email: [email protected] Design-build projects present new contractual, operational and financial risks to a specialty contractor compared to those associated with the design-bid-build (DBB) project delivery approach. The authors discuss various risks confronted by an owner, design- build team and specialty contractors as well as potential measures to avoid or mitigate such risks. 83 Emergency Rock Slide Stabilization with Shear Pins Sebastian Lobo-Guerrero Ph.D., P.E., and Todd DeMico, P.E. A landslide initiated in an existing rock cut in Altoona, Pa., threatened the safety and operations of the shopping plaza down below. The mitigation measures comprised a temporary rock buttress, removing most of the slide mass, securing the bedrock upslope of the tension crack with shear pins, and final reconstruc- tion and grading of the slope. 77 CSM Support of Excavation and ACIP Piling Near Gulf of Mexico Justin Simmons, P.E., Bob Faulhaber, P.E., and Dr. Michael Arnold Marriott Hotels began a $300 million renovation to upgrade its hotel in Marco Island, Fla., in May 2015. Bauer Foundation designed and constructed a deep foundation system that included 1,562 ACIP piles and about 36,500 sq ft (3,400 sq m) of soil-mixed retaining wall for support of excavation. DEEP FOUNDATIONS • MAR/APR 2018 • 5
