• Organized networking baseball game outing at Nationals Stadium in conjunction with SSI seminar in August 2017. • Organized third annual networking nd reception at DFI 42 Annual Conference in New Orleans. Tiebacks and Soil Nailing Committee Chair: Ed Laczynski, P.E., Wagman Heavy Civil, [email protected] Trustee Liaison: Tom Richards, P.E., D.GE Nicholson Construction [email protected] • Reviewing outcomes of SSI seminar and the second software discussion and webinar. • Reviewing AASHTO soil nail specification. • Preparing a document on tiedback soldier pile walls in LRFD. • Establishing a joint committee with ADSC’s Anchored Earth Retention committee. • Discussing corrosion effects on tieback structures. • Awarded professional development grants funded by the DFI Educational Trust and committee fundraising efforts to sponsor five women to attend the DFI Annual Conference. • Organized dinner meeting with ASCE Pittsburgh Section on gender communication. • Selling beaded lanyards as a fundraiser for the Women in Deep Foundations fund. • Outreaching to other industry groups and working to increase attendance of women at industry events. • Highlighting achievements of women in Deep Foundations magazine, the DFI website and PileBuck magazine. • Holding conference calls on the third Thursday of month at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time. • Organizing multi-society women’s professional development workshop at IFCEE conference in Orlando in March 2018. Women in Deep Foundations Committee Chair: Helen Robinson, P.E., Schnabel Engineering, [email protected] Trustee Liaison: Michael Wysockey, Ph.D., P.E., Thatcher Engineering Corporation, [email protected] Advisor: Mary Ellen Bruce Large, P.E., D.GE, DFI Director of Technical Activities, [email protected] • Organized networking event at SuperPile ’17 conference in June. Energy Foundations Working Group Co-Chairs: Tony Amis GI Energy, [email protected] and Guney Olgun Virginia Tech, [email protected] Trustee Liaison: Gerry Houlahan, P.E. Moffatt & Nichol [email protected] • Discussing ways to raise the profile of energy foundations in the U.S. • Encouraging other DFI committees to consider energy foundations projects and dissemination of design and construction information. • Compiling case histories on the use of energy foundations for infrastructure projects. • Considering a 1- to 1½-day seminar on energy foundations design, construction and case histories. Electric Power Systems Foundations Working Group Co-Chairs: Peter Kandaris, P.E., DGA Consulting, [email protected] and Steve Davidow, P.E., S.E., Quanta Subsurface [email protected] Trustee Liaison: Frank Haehnig, Zueblin Spezialtiefbau, [email protected] • Supporting the implementation of the Ground Source Heat Pump Association’s guidance document on design and construction of piles used as geothermal heat transfer elements. • Presented draft standard-of-practice white paper for discussion at the working group meeting at the DFI Annual Conference in October. • Presented a technical paper summarizing work to date on state-of- the-practice electric system foundation design at the DFI Annual Conference. DEEP FOUNDATIONS • NOV/DEC 2017 • 113
