CONTENTS FEATURES Departments PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE I Love Science!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR UPDATE Summer Is a State of Mind. . . . . . . . . . . 9 DFI ACTIVITIES Welcome to the Annual Conference, DFI’s 2018 Distinguished Service Award and Bermingham Award winners, upcoming events and more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 THE DFI DIGITAL-VISUAL-VIRTUAL DATA REVOLUTION Why DFI formed the Project Information Management Systems (PIMS) Committee and what benefits PIMS offers the DFI community.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 REGIONAL REPORT DFI Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 EDUCATIONAL TRUST REPORT An update on the annual PA and NJ Golf Outings, scholarships awarded, Professional Development Grant winners, recent donors and upcoming events. . . 69 TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES UPDATE Committee Project Fund call for proposals, reports from the Ground Improvement and Soil Mixing Committees. . . . . . . 113 GUEST EDITORIAL Talent Test Drive: Does Your Talent Have the Horsepower You Need? . . . . . . . . 117 LEGALLY SPEAKING OSHA Moves to Eliminate Capacity Requirement for Third-Party Crane Operator Certification . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 DFI PEOPLE AND COMPANIES People, Company and Product News. . 122 CALENDAR & AD INDEX . . . . . . . . 126 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] 89 Luxury Living on the Beach in Coney Island, Brooklyn Miguel G. Matos, P.E., Tasos G. Papathanasiou, P.E., and Marc J. Gallagher, P.E., LEED AP Two towers are being constructed across an entire city in Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y. A hybrid foundation system consisting of deep pile foundations at the towers and a spread footing at the podium-garage was used to address the numerous challenges faced during design and construction. 97 Extracted ACIP Piles for the New Harbor Bridge Project Tracy Brettmann, P.E., D.GE The U.S. 181 Harbor Bridge Project will include the construction of 6.2 miles (10 km) of combined bridge and roadway. Some of the existing ACIP piles had to be extracted before the new drilled shafts for the north tower of the new cable-stayed bridge could be installed. 105 Working Platforms for Tracked Plant Dr. Derek Egan, BEng, CEng, FICE The author describes the initiative undertaken in the U.K. in the early 2000s to improve the safety of piling plant operations by addressing poor quality working platforms via BRE 470: Working Platforms for Tracked Plant. The author also provides personal experiences and different aspects of designing a granular working platform. DEEP FOUNDATIONS • SEPT/OCT 2018 • 5
