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DFI of India wishes you a very joyous and properous Diwali 2024. May this Diwali bring you success in your professional endeavors and illuminate your path with creativity and inspiration. mohan ramanathan | Dr. Sunil S. Basarkar | Anirudhan I.V. | Ravikiran Vaidya | Pranav Jha | Padavala Sai Sindhu | Mahendran T S #Diwali2024 #FestivalOfLights #DFII

DFI of India successfully conducted its 13th Annual Conference in Goa during 19-21 September 2024 at the historic & beautiful venue Kala Academy, Panaji. This event brought together experts from around the world to discuss innovations in deep foundations, geotechnical engineering, and sustainability. We thank the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Goa Dr. Pramod Sawant for gracing our conference as the Chief Guest and inaugurating the event. We also thank Prof. O R Jaiswal, Director NIT Goa, the Guest of Honour of the Conference for releasing the conference souvenir. Our heartfelt thanks to the invited speakers Dr. Venu Raju, @Prof. M. R. Madhav, Thomas Domanski, Prof. Alessandro Mandolini, SRILAKSHMI (Lucky) DEBUR NAGARAJAN, Dr CR Parthasarathy, Udai Veer Singh; Deepankar Choudhury, Satyajit Vaidya, PE, Dr. Marwan Alzaylaie, Robert Dunaevskiy, and Ms. Odette Da Silva. Special appreciation to all the Sponsors, Exhibitors, and Supporters, their generous support made this event a grand success. We congratulate all DFII 2024 Award winners: Life Time Contribution Award 2024 - Prof. Madhav Madhira Best Paper Award - Dr. Tanumaya Mitra, Ph.D & Sampat raj Bhati Student Awards - Yogesh R V, Sougata Mukherjee & Hardik Hadiya Final shout out to our co-organizer IGS Goa chapter, organizing and technical committees, and the volunteers for the successful conduct of the event.

DFI of India is pleased to attach herewith an e-version of the DFI of India Quarterly Newsletter - July 2024 issue. Check out:  - The Cover Story on 'Sustainable Methods in Foundation Engineering: A Focus on Soil Mixing Techniques'  - Message from DFI of India Executive Committee Member - Mr. Sanjay Gupta, Cengrs Geotechnica Pvt. Ltd.  - DFI-India 2024: 13th Annual Conference details  - Message from DFI-India 2024 Conference Chair - Prof. Purnanand Savoikar  - DFI Upcoming Events, DFII News, and much more. We hope you will find this informative. Publish about any advanced deep foundation technology which you are using in your project as the Cover Story in upcoming DFII Newsletter, contact us at technical@dfi-india.org Anirudhan I.V. | mohan ramanathan | Dr. Sunil S. Basarkar | Sanjay Gupta | Dr. Purnanand Savoikar | Theresa Rappaport Engler | Pranav Jha | Padavala Sai Sindhu #DFI #newsletter #July2024 #DeepFoundations #dfiindia

DFI of India is happy to announce a new webinar series titled 'Practices for Efficient Subsurface Characterization' under the DFII Committee for Geotechnical Characterization for Foundation, designed to address the critical aspects of subsoil investigation and characterization which are fundamental to the success of any construction project involving deep foundations. Webinar 1 Schedule: 30 August 2024, Friday at 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. IST Topic: Case Studies on Problems, Challenges and Solutions to Site Characterisation Speaker: Dr CR Parthasarathy, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director - Sarathy Geotech & Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd. Session Moderator: Dr. A. Murali Krishna, Professor, IIT Tirupati Registration is free, but compulsory. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gQjA6tKh Sorabh Gupta | Ravi Sundaram | Anirudhan I.V. | Alok Samanta | Dr. Yogini Deshpande | Dr. A. Murali Krishna | Sreevalsa Kolathayar | Arindam Dey | mohan ramanathan | Dr. Sunil S. Basarkar | Pranav Jha | Padavala Sai Sindhu | Mahendran T S |

DFI of India, as a part of its 13th Annual conference, organised the 'DFII Student Awards 2024' for best Masters Project and best Ph.D. Research. We are happy to announce the winners of 'DFII Student Awards 2024': Joint Winners of Best PhD Research Award: Sougata Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru for his research on 'Experimental, Numerical and Probabilistic Analysis of Reinforced Anchors for Transmission Tower Foundations', and Yogesh R V, CSIR-Central Building Research Institute for his research on 'Development and Investigation of Sustainable Recycled Aggregate Based Pervious Concrete Pile for Liquefaction and Reliquefaction Mitigation'. Winner of Best Masters Project Award: @Hardik Hadiya, IIT BOMBAY for his project on 'Improving Current Methods to Develop Equivalent Top Load (ETL) Curve from Bi-directional Pile Load Test' Winners will be awarded on 21st September 2024 during the DFI-India 2024: 13th Annual Conference at Panaji, Goa. DFI of India congratulates the winners and wishes them the best for their future. DFI of India also thanks the Expert Panel for shortlisting the applications and evaluating the presentations. Dr. Sunil S. Basarkar, Anirudhan I.V., Boominathan Adimoolam, @Dr. N kumar pitchumani, Sreevalsa Kolathayar, Dr. A. Murali Krishna, Muthukkumaran K mohan ramanathan | Pranav Jha | Padavala Sai Sindhu | Mahendran T S #studentawards #research #masters #deepfoundations #dfiofindia #13thannualconference #Goa

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DFI India Student Outreach Program "Groundwork" 2024 successfully conducted its Webinar-3 on 19 July' 24. We thank the Speaker Mr. Tarun Kumar Dey, Vice President & Head -Quality Assurance, ITD Cementation India Ltd., for delivering a technical presentation on 'Quality Assurance & Control Measures in Construction of Bored Cast-in-Situ Piles' The webinar is now available on YouTube. Watch the webinar now: https://lnkd.in/gdZnQDKg mohan ramanathan | Dr. Sunil S. Basarkar | Anirudhan I.V. | Umashankar Balunaini | @Dr. Kumar Pitchumani | Annapoorni Iyer | Sridhar Valluri | Aminul Islam | Muthukkumaran K | Pranav Jha | Padavala Sai Sindhu

We are hiring!!! Grab the opportunity to work with DFI of India as geotechnical Intern. Refer to the attached job description for more details. Interested candidates are requested to email their application with their updated resume to activities@dfi-india.org. Last date to apply is 30 July 2024.

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DFI-India 2024: 13th Annual Conference is just two months away. We invite you to attend the much awaited event at Kala Academy, Panaji, Goa during 19-21 Sept 2024. We are overwhelmed with the response from the industry for the event. DFI of India thanks all the conference sponsors and exhibitors for extending their support. We invite you to sponsor/exhibit during the event to present your products, services, etc to the industry. For bookings, reach out to DFII office at activities@dfi-india.org/dfiindiaoffice@gmail.com. The conference is a landmark event for learning & networking in the Indian foundation industry, and we would love to see you there. Register now if you haven't already. For more information and registration, visit: https://lnkd.in/gf-Divxq Dr. Purnanand Savoikar | mohan ramanathan | Dr. Sunil S. Basarkar | Anirudhan I.V. | Dr. Jaykumar Shukla | Theresa Rappaport Engler | SRILAKSHMI (Lucky) DEBUR NAGARAJAN | Pranav Jha | Padavala Sai Sindhu | Mahendran T S