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Press Releases
DFI Presents Inaugural Bermingham Innovation Award
Hawthorne, NJ (December 1, 2012): The Deep Foundation Institute (DFI) presented the inaugural C. William Bermingham Innovation Award to the team of Nicholson Construction Company and Bermingham Foundation Solutions Ltd, at DFI’s 37th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Houston, TX.
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DFI Deep Foundations Magazine – March/April 2018 Issue
The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) has published it’s Mar/Apr 2018 issue of Deep Foundations Magazine. Feature articles include: High-Capacity Micropiles for Bulfinch Crossing Drilled Shaft Construction – Selecting the Appropriate Equipment and Tooling CSM Support […]
Articles
Side Hill Retaining Walls – Part 2
In this part 2 of 2, various types of retaining walls are examined as possible alternatives in a side-hill retaining wall situation. These include conventional wall types such as CIP walls, MSE walls, gravity walls and soldier pile walls and some less conventional approaches such as lighweight concrete fill, hybrid soil-nail and geofoam wall systems, ground improvement and micropile walls.
Part 1 of this Side Hill Retaining Wall article covered the definition, significance, problems and failure modes, investigation techniques, analysis, and construction considerations of side hill walls. A PDF version is now available for download as well. Click through for the article and the download link!