Education Working For You! Short Courses (PDHs available) Tuesday, March 17 8:00am-5:00pm Short Courses provide an excellent opportunity to brush up on familiar subjects or to gain knowledge about new concepts from instructors who are recognized as leading experts in their fields. Short Courses are sold individually. Be sure to register early, as each course has limited seating. SC 1 In Situ Testing and Deep Foundation Design Course Synopsis: This session will cover deep foundation design subjected to static loading on the basis of in situ testing, specifically SPT, CPT, and PMT. It will include single piles and pile groups under vertical and horizontal loads, but will not include non-destructive testing of bored piles and pile driving. Many examples with solutions will be presented. Instructor: Jean-Louis Briaud Ph.D., PE, D.GE, Dist.M.ASCE, Professor and Holder of the Buchanan Chair, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University. A copy of Professor Briaud’s 2013 book: “Geotechnical Engineering: Unsaturated and Saturated Soils” is included in the cost of the Short Course. SC 2 Cost-Effective Driven-Pile Design Course Synopsis: This course will present innovative, practical, and pragmatic approaches to cost-effective driven- pile design, testing, and installation. Cost-effectiveness is an important component of good driven-pile design, an attribute all the more important to recognize and incorporate considering the significant construction dollars involved. The session will cover the concept of foundation support cost as a tool to compare the cost-effectiveness of viable design and testing alternatives. A rigorous approach to selecting appropriate allowable pile loads based on structure support requirements (load matching) will be presented. The economic contribution of soil/pile set-up will be addressed, as well as effective ways to characterize and incorporate set-up into design and installation (depth-variable driving criteria). Various construction-control/field testing methods will be discussed, along with their potential costs and value-added benefits to both the geotechnical and structural aspects of driven-pile design. All topics will be illustrated with real-world case histories and cost evaluations. E E Instructor(s): Van E. Komurka, P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE, President, Wagner Komurka Geotechnical Group, Inc.; Garland E. Likins, M.S., P.E., President, Pile Dynamics, Inc. SC 3 Managing Safety from Design to Construction ★ Course Synopsis: This safety course will provide a basic overview of how safety is integrated into the various stages of a deep foundation construction project from the design stage to the actual installation of the foundation or earth retention elements from a specialty subcontractor’s perspective. Areas that will be addressed will be: Design for Safety for Deep Foundations and Earth Retention; Insurance and Risk Management Basics; Overview of Existing Safety Standards that Govern Our Industry; and Basic Safety for Large Diameter Holes and Pile Driving Equipment. This training program, taught by experienced Safety Managers and Insurance Risk Control Specialists working in the Deep Foundation Industry is aimed at those individuals who will play a part in the successful completion of a project, be it from a design or installation process. International Foundations Congress and Equipment Expo Instructor(s): Colin Perkins, Corporate Safety Director, Condon-Johnson & Associates, Inc.; Michael Blanchard, CSP, ARM, ALCM, Regional Safety Manager, Hayward-Baker, Inc.; Gregory L. Lewis, Corporate Safety Director, Moretrench and Richard Marshall, CHST, Safety Director, Richard Goettle, Inc. Registration Options FULL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION includes: Tuesday & Wednesday receptions, entrance to exhibit areas, Wednesday breakfast, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday box lunch, technical sessions, coffee breaks, final night reception, dinner and dance, and one copy of proceedings. SPOUSE/COMPANION & CHILD REGISTRATION includes: Tuesday & Wednesday receptions, entrance to exhibit areas, Wednesday breakfast, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday box lunch, coffee breaks, final night reception, dinner and dance. TECHNICAL SESSION DAY PASS includes: entrance to selected day’s technical sessions, exhibits, lunch and coffee breaks. (All prices are per day.) EXHIBITS ONLY DAY PASS includes: entrance to exhibit areas and coffee breaks for selected day. (All prices are per day.) SHORT COURSE REGISTRATION includes: entrance to selected short course session, continental breakfast, coffee breaks, box lunch, course materials, and Tuesday reception. IFCEE 2015 CONFERENCE PREVIEW 7 O w - 7 m T w 2 o A w , . 2 . 5 N 0 I F 1 S C 2 A 5 1 0 N 1 c A M X A E R T C , O H N 1 I S
