Augered Cast-in-Place Pile and Drilled Displacement Pile Committee following W. Morgan NeSmith, Berkel and Company Contractors; and Maysill Pascal P.E., USW, a Menard Group USA Company, is the new chair of the Women in Deep Foundations Committee following Helen Robinson, P.E., GEI Consultants. Carlos Englert, MSc., P.E., Terracon, is the outgoing chair for the Sustainability Committee. DFI Business DFI leaders conducted the Business Meeting Luncheon including an overview of DFI’s healthy financial state and technical com- mittee activities. During the luncheon, the new DFI officers were announced: President Matthew Janes, M.E.Sc., MBA, P.Eng., Isher- wood Geostructural Engineers / Resonance Technology; Vice President Michael H. Wysockey, Ph.D., P.E., Thatcher Engineer- ing Corp.; Treasurer Gianfranco Di Cicco, GD Consulting; Secretary James O. Johnson, Condon-Johnson & Associates; and immediate Past President Dan A. Brown, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, of Dan Brown and Associates. WiDF grant recipients with Maysill Pascall, chair, and Mike Wysockey, DFI trustee Loehr, Ph.D., P.E., University of Missouri; Martin G. Taube P.E., P.G., Menard; and the new trustees are W. Morgan Nesmith, Jr., P.E., Berkel and Company Contractors, and Dan Maclean, P. Eng., Keller Foundations. The outgoing Trustees were thanked for their commitment and their years of service: John Wolosick, P.E., D.GE, Hayward Baker, and Alan Roach, Berkel and Company Contractors. And the Winners Are… Winners of DFI’s annual awards were celebrated at the Awards Banquet on Friday evening. Malcolm Drilling received the 2018 Outstanding Project Award (OPA) for its work on 181 Fremont Tower in San Francisco, Calif. During the opening plenary session on Thursday, John Morgan, Malcolm Drilling; Kirk Ellison, Ph.D., P.E., Arup; and Eric Lindquist, Ph.D., P.E., Brierly Associates, co-delivered the OPA presentation providing an overview of the challenging construction of the drilled shafts and support of excavation system in the dense urban setting. Matthew Janes, incoming president, and Dan Brown, current DFI president Janes congratulated and thanked outgoing President Brown on his successful tenure. Brown leaves the Institute in a strong position with exciting prospects for future activities and collaboration. Brown passed the ceremonial gavel to Janes who will begin his term as DFI president in January 2019. The trustee election results were announced during the luncheon. The re- elected incoming Trustees are Dr. Conrad Felice, P.E., P.Eng., D. GE., F.ASCE. C. W. Felice; Anne Lemnitzer, Ph.D., P.E., University of California Irvine; J. Erik John Morgan, Eric Lindquist and Kirk Ellison receive the OPA award Garland E. Likins, Jr., P.E., Pile Dynamics, Inc. (PDI), was presented with the 2018 DFI Distinguished Service Award (DSA), which is DFI’s highest award bestowed to an individual. “Likins’ lifetime work has helped transform the approach, practice and understanding of quality assurance for all types of deep foundations, and has helped to create the modern testing industry and to advance the practice of deep foundation quality assurance that we currently employ and (almost) take for granted,” says Theresa Engler, executive director of DFI. Garland Likins (center), DSA winner, with family and colleagues DEEP FOUNDATIONS • NOV/DEC 2018 • 25
