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Wishing a Happy and Prosperous New Year to all! May God bless you, your families, and your companies in 2013! Lets turn this ship around!
I echo my challenge from last year that we look at the situations that we face through the lens of truth and that our decisions will be based on right concepts as opposed to self interest. Let us press forward fearlessly guided by right action and truth that we might forge a better future for ourselves and those around us. Happy New Year!
Wednesday, May 15 – Thursday, May 16, 2013
Hilton Minneapolis
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Seven of DFI’s technical committees have joined forces to organize this year’s Super Pile Conference. This two-day conference will consist of presentations on the latest developments in: Driven Piles, Augercast Cast-In-Place / Drilled Displacement Piles, Micropiles, Marine Construction, Testing and Evaluation of Foundation Systems, Seismic Design and Drilled Shafts. Day One will be a plenary (combined) session and Day Two will have two concurrent sessions giving attendees the option to choose which presentations are of interest to them.
Presentations will focus on local and out-of-state case studies, historical development, theory and design with emphasis on practical application, new technologies and ides for future development. There is particular interest in presentations addressing challenges for deep foundation construction in cold weather environments. Equipment, material and instrumentation suppliers, contractors and other vendors will present their services in our Exhibit Hall. Visit www.dfi.org for for up-to-date details on this conference.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
SuperPile 2013 is soliciting presentations in the following areas:
Potential Speakers for SuperPile 2013 should submit a brief abstract (no more than 300 words) describing the subject matter of their proposed presentation. In addition, include the committee which should review your abstract, the presentation title and the speaker name within the abstract document. The due date for abstract submissions is Friday, December 21, 2012. Please email proposals to Erin Groenewal at events@dfi.org.
Notification of acceptance or declination will be returned to all authors no later than Monday, January 28, 2013. Guidelines for presentation development will be provided to all accepted speakers at that time. They will be required to commit to presenting their topic on Wednesday, May 15th or Thursday, May 16th and to submit a PowerPoint presentation to be included in the conference publication by Friday, April 5, 2013. Also, all accepted authors should consider developing their abstract into a technical paper for consideration by the editors of the DFI Journal for inclusion in a future volume.
Should you have questions, please contact:
DEEP FOUNDATIONS INSTITUTE
Attn.: Events Department
326 Lafayette Avenue, Hawthorne, NJ 07506 USA
Tel: 973-423-4030, FAX: 973-423-4031
Email: events@dfi.org
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