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2 2012 Coferece Iformatio Locatio: Welcome to Housto! America's fourth-largest city is a cosmopolita destiatio, filled with world-class diig, arts, hotels, shoppig ad ightlife. Take a stroll through the historic Heights, sped the day explorig the Museum District or head dow to Space Ceter Housto. Later o, grab a bite i oe of dozes of award-wiig restaurats, or hag out with the cool kids o Washigto Aveue. There's always somethig to do i this Souther-hospitality-meets-urba-chic city. Coferece Veue: The George R. Brow Covetio Ceter 1001 Aveida De Las Americas Housto, TX 77010 Hotel Accomodatios/ Awards Receptio & Dier: Hilto Americas - Housto 1600 Lamar Street Housto, TX 77010 The Hilto Americas is coected to the GRB Covetio Ceter ad the most coveiet place to stay for the DFI Coferece. Reservatios: Click here for olie reservatios. Call 1-800-236-2905, metio group rate for DFI: $226/ight ++ Please make your reservatios early. This discouted room rate is for DFI Attedees, subject to availability ad a cut-off date of Suday, September 23, 2012. The special rate will also be hoored 3 days prior ad 3 days followig the coferece, based o availability. Travel Arragemets Blue Ribbo Travel is DFI s official travel coordiator. Call or email Lorraie Egelma for assistace: 718-767-5455 / Lorraie@travelblueribbo.com Hilto Americas - Housto Hotel Parkig: Self parkig is available for $19 a day; or valet parkig is also available for $30 a day. Trasportatio: Super Shuttle Va service is available from the airport ad ca be cotacted at http://www.supershuttle.com/locatios/iah AirportShuttleHousto.aspx. Taxis are also available at the airport. Registratio: Category Through 9/1/2012 After 9/1/2012 Member $795 $895 No-Member $895 $995 Youg Professioal (uder 30) $395 $395 Govermet Employee $395 $395 Studet $ 25 $ 25 Idividual Sessios $175 $175 Compaio s Program $350 $350 Day 1 or 2 oly $425 $425 Day 3 oly $200 $200 Registratio i the first 4 categories icludes Coferece Sessios Admissio, Exhibit Area Admissio, Welcome Lucheo, Welcome Receptio, Aual Members Meetig ad Luch, Hal Hut Lecture, Awards Receptio, Morig ad Afteroo Breaks ad a proceedigs flash drive. (No-Member fee also icludes DFI idividual membership through Dec. 31, 2012) Discouted Studet Registratio is available o a limited basis. Studet must provide a copy of their ID card. Day 1 registratio icludes Breakfast, Break, Welcome Luch, Sessio I ad Welcome Receptio. Day 2 registratio icludes Breakfast, Breaks, Busiess Meetig Luch, Hal Hut Lecture, the day's sessios ad the awards receptio. Day 3 registratio icludes Breakfast, Break ad Sessio VI. Studet ad Idividual Sessio categories do ot iclude luches, receptios or a proceedig but those may be purchased separately. Additioal Optios: Color Coferece Proceedigs Book - $95 Awards Baquet Tickets - $100 per perso/$150 per couple/$600 per table of 8. All proceeds from baquet tickets beefit the DFI Educatioal Trust Scholarship Fud ad are a 100% tax-deductible doatio. Bauer Site Tour Complimetary with coferece registratio. Sig up required. Space limited. Paymet: Paymet must accompay your registratio. Register o-lie or fax your registratio with credit card iformatio icluded, or mail with credit card iformatio, check or moey order. Ackowledgemet: If your registratio is received at DFI Headquarters prior to Friday, October 5, 2012, you will be set a cofirmatio. Cacellatio: Sorry, No Refuds after September 28, 2012. If you are uable to atted, your registratio may be trasferred to aother idividual provided they are a DFI member. All cacellatios must be made i writig via fax or email. Have your Portrait Take! DFI will have a photographer o site to take your portrait. Electroic photo files will be provided approximately three weeks after the coferece at o charge. Portrait Times: Wedesday, October 17th... 8:00 am Noo Thursday, October 18th... 5:30 6:30 pm

2012 Coferece At A Glace* Tuesday October 16 7:30 am - 5:00 pm Pre-Coferece Evets (see pg 10) Desig & Costructability of Diaphragm Walls Short Course Augered Cast-i-Place Piles Short Course & Specialty Semiar Use of Computer Software for Lateral Aalysis Short Course 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Coferece Exhibitor & Poster Preseter Set-up 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Coferece Registratio Opes 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Studet Competitio 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Committee Meetigs Wedesday October 17 8:00 am - Noo Committee Meetigs 8:00 am - Noo Registratio 8:00 am - Noo Portraits 12:10 pm - 1:40 pm Welcome Luch ad Competitio Presetatios 1:30 pm - 8:00 pm Exhibits ad Poster Viewig 1:45 pm - 2:25 pm Keyote Lecture: Stability Aalyses for Slope Stabilizatio Measures Lessos Leared 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm Sessio I: THE INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE OF DRILLED, DRIVEN AND OTHER FOUNDATION ELEMENTS 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Compaios Welcome Tea 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Welcome Receptio i Exhibit Hall Thursday October 18 7:30 am - 8:00 am Attedee Breakfast i Exhibit Hall 7:30 am - 8:30 am Compaios Cotietal Breakfast 8:00 am - 6:00 pm Exhibits ad Poster Viewig 8:05 am - 11:40 am Cocurret Sessios: Sessio II: ALTERNATIVE DEEP FOUNDATION SOLUTIONS OFFERED BY GROUND IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUE Sessio III: MODELING - STATIC ANALYSIS, DYNAMIC/EARTHQUAKE ANALYSIS, OTHER 8:45 am - 4:00 pm Compaio s Tour 11:45 am - 1:30 pm Lucheo: DFI Busiess Meetig ad Hal Hut Lecture o Commuicatios 1:45 pm - 5:20 pm Cocurret Sessios: Sessio IV: FOUNDATIONS OF MARINE STRUCTURES Sessio V: IN-SITU TESTING OF DEEP FOUNDATIONS 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Compaios Refreshmets 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm Exhibits ad Poster Viewig 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Portraits 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm Awards Receptio 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Awards Baquet (Separate Ticket Required) Friday October 19 8:00 am - 8:30 am Attedees Breakfast i Exhibit Hall 8:00 am - 9:30 am Compaios Cotietal Breakfast 8:35 am - 9:15 pm Keyote Lecture: Cotiuous Advacemet of Drillig Efficiecy through New Methods ad Equipmet Techology 9:20 am - 12:20 pm Sessio VI: CURRENT ISSUES IN THE DEEP FOUNDATIONS INDUSTRY 9:00 am - 10:30 am Exhibits ad Poster Viewig 11:15 am - 12:45 pm 2013 Phoeix Coferece Exhibit Space Registratio 12:25 pm - 12:45 pm Closig Remarks 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Post Coferece Tour of Bauer-Pileco - Optioal Compaios Program* The Presidetial Suite will be ope to all Compaios Program Attedees for the duratio of the Coferece. Wedesday, October 17, 2012 3:00-4:00 pm Welcome Tea i the Presidetial Suite 6:00-8:00 pm Welcome Receptio i Exhibit Hall (with coferece attedees) Thursday, October 18, 2012 7:30-8:30 am Cotietal Breakfast i the Presidetial Suite 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Space Ceter Housto ad Kemah Boardwalk Tour (Meet i Lobby for Bus Boardigbegiig 8:45 am) SPACE CENTER HOUSTON TOUR Ejoy a guided tour of Space Ceter Housto, where you will lear everythig about its dramatic history, excitig preset ad compellig future. LUNCH AT LANDRY S Located o the Kemah Boardwalk i Galvesto Bay. Ejoy sceic views, exquisite seafood as well as other traditioal souther fares. KEMAH BOARDWALK The Boardwalk boasts may activities, games, shoppig, a Ferris wheel, woode roller coaster, traditioal boardwalk sacks, ad much more. 4:30-5:30 pm Refreshmets i the Presidetial Suite 6:00-6:30 pm Award Receptio (with coferece attedees) 6:30-9:00 pm Awards Baquet (with coferece attedees) Separate Ticket Required Friday, October 19, 2012 8:00-9:30 am Cotietal Breakfast i the Presidetial Suite 1:00-4:00 pm Bauer Site Tour (Optioal at o charge) Sig up required * schedules subject to chage 3

Uderwriters Cotact DFI HQ to become a sposor at staff@dfi.org. Coferece Exhibitors 4 Cotact DFI HQ to reserve oe of the few remaiig spaces at staff@dfi.org. Click here for most recet exhibitor floor pla.

Full Coferece Schedule* Pre-Coferece Tuesday, October 16 7:30 am - 8:00 am REGISTRATION 8:00 am - 8:30 am WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Practical, Prudet, ad Effective Use of Computer Software for Lateral Aalysis of Deep Foudatios Preseted by DFI's Seismic & Lateral Loads Committee 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Augured Cast-i-Place Pile Short Course & Specialty Semiar Preseted by DFI's Augered Cast-i-Place Pile Committee 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Desig ad Costructability of Diaphragm Walls Preseted by DFI's Slurry Wall Committee 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm EXHIBIT AND POSTER SET-UP 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Committee Meetigs Day 1 Wedesday, October 17 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Committee Meetigs 8:00 pm - 12:00 pm EXHIBITOR SET-UP / REGISTRATION 12:00 pm - 1:40 pm WELCOME LUNCH Committee Meetig Schedule: Tuesday, October 16: 6-8 pm Codes ad Stadards Augered Cast-i-Place Pile Sustaiability 8-10 pm Micropiles Drive Pile Soil Mixig Wedesday, October 17: 8-10 am Ladslides ad Slope Stabilizatio Helical Foudatios & Tiebacks Seismic ad Lateral Loads Testig & Evaluatio 8-11 am Slurry Wall 10-Noo Tiebacks ad Soil Nailig Drilled Shaft Marie Foudatios Groud Improvemet 1:45 pm - 2:25 pm KEYNOTE LECTURE: Stability Aalyses for Slope Stabilizatio Measures Lessos Leared Dr. Stephe G. Wright, P.E., Professor Emeritus, The Uiversity of Texas at Austi SESSION I: THE INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE OF DRILLED, DRIVEN AND OTHER FOUNDATION ELEMENTS Moderators: Biod Sapkota Ph.D., P.E., Bechtel Oil, Gas ad Chemicals, Ic.; Abhishek Shethji P.E., Furgo Cosultats, Ic. 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm The Road to Iovatio i Geotechical Costructio Peter Nicholso, Nicholso Cosultig Compay 2:50 pm - 3:05 pm Large Taks o Piled Foudatios Begt Felleius, Dr.Tech, P.Eg., Cosultig Egieer 3:10 pm - 3:25 pm Drive Piles i Cetral Texas Expasive Soils Clayto Sigor, Sigor Eterprises, LP 3:30 pm - 4:10 pm BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Desig of Bearig Plates for Achors i Geo-Applicatios Jesús Gómez, P.E., D.GE., Ph.D., Schabel Egieerig LLC 4:35 pm - 4:50 pm Case History: Iovative Load Test Program Optimizes Pile Capacity i Challegig Groud Coditios Emad Farouz, P.E., CH2M Hill Cosultig Egieers 4:55 pm - 5:10 pm Pile Settlemet Desig Usig Cotiuous Surface Wave Testig ad Modulus Degradatio Hei Barard, Aureco South Africa 5:15 pm - 5:30 pm Moitorig Costructio ad Load Testig Auger Cast i Place Pile i Compressio ad Tesio i Hard Clay Cumaraswamy Vipulaada, P.E., Ph.D., Uiversity of Housto 5:35 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Presetatio Itroductio 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm WELCOME RECEPTION IN EXHIBIT HALL * subject to chage 5

Full Coferece Schedule* (cotiued) 7:30 am - 8:00 am BREAKFAST IN EXHIBIT HALL Day 2 Thursday, October 18 SESSION II: ALTERNATIVE DEEP FOUNDATION SOLUTIONS OFFERED BY GROUND IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUE Moderators: Reda Moulai-Khatir P.E., Bechtel Corporatio; Pramod Rao Ph.D., P.E., Chevro Eergy Techology Compay 8:05 am - 8:25 am Cased Auger Piles (CAP): A Effective Pilig Solutio Federico Pagliacci, P.Eg., M.Sc. (C.E.), SOILMEC S.p.A. 8:30 am - 8:50 am Buildig a High-Rise Adjacet to Trasit Tuels i Sa Fracisco Lori Simpso, P.E., G.E, Treadwell & Rollo, a Laga Compay 8:55 am - 9:15 am Seismic Behavior of Full-Scale Piles i Improved Soft Clay Bradley Flemig, Iowa State Uiversity 9:20 am - 10:00 am BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL 10:05 am - 10:25 am Seismic Respose of Foudatios Supported o the Sites Improved Usig Aggregate Piers M. Hesham El Naggar, Otario Miistry of Trasportatio 10:30 am - 10:50 am Marie Prefabricated Vertical Drais for the Craey Islad Eastward Expasio Ira Brotma, P.E., Moffatt & Nichol 10:55 am - 11:15 am A Case History o the Desig, Costructio, ad Field Quality Cotrol of Cemet Deep Mixig Domiic Parmatier, P.E., Codo-Johso 11:20 am - 11:40 am A Case History o the Desig, Costructio, ad Performace of Stoe Colum Groud Improvemet Beeath a MSE Embakmet Kare Dawso, CH2M Hill Ic. 11:45 am - 1:00 pm LUNCHEON (Techical Committee Reports / Treasurer's Report / Geeral Busiess Discussio) 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm HAL HUNT LECTURE ON COMMUNICATIONS James Pappas, VP, Ultra-Deepwater Programs for RPSEA SESSION IV: FOUNDATIONS OF MARINE STRUCTURES Moderators: Zeo Media-Cetia, Ph.D., Texas A&M Uiversity; Fracisco Gabriel Heradez- Martiez, Ph.D., Norwegia Geotechical Istitute Ic. 1:45 pm - 2:05 pm Drivig ad Extractio of Steel Pipe Piles i Nearshore Eviromet Nihal Bohra, Golder Associates 2:10 pm - 2:30 pm Numerical Evalutio for Lateral Bearig Capacity of Moo ad Group Suctio Piles uder Horizotal Loadigs Ju-Hyug Lee, Korea Istitute of Costructio Techology 2:35 pm - 2:55 pm Natomas Levee Improvemet Program Cutoff Walls Matthew Marks, Magus Pacific Corporatio 3:00 pm - 3:40 pm BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL 3:45 pm - 4:05 pm Costructio of a Bicycle ad Pedestria Path Located West of the Hery Hudso Parkway Alfraio Prado ad David Colema, Uderpiig ad Foudatio Skaska 4:10 pm - 4:30 pm Equipmet, Diplomacy ad Iovatio: Octakog ad the Hog Kog-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge Project David White, America Piledrivig Equipmet 4:35 pm - 4:55 pm Experieces ad New Developmets i Offshore Foudatio Fraz-Werer Gerresse, Dipl.-Ig., BAUER Maschie GmbH 5:00 pm - 5:20 pm Prelimiary Assessmet of Reliability ad Samplig Requiremets for Deep Mixig Method (DMM) Foudatios for LNG Processig Facility ad Storage Tak Edward Clukey, BP America 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm AWARDS RECEPTION 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm AWARDS BANQUET 6

Cocurret Sessios 7:30 am - 8:00 am BREAKFAST IN EXHIBIT HALL SESSION III: MODELING - STATIC ANALYSIS, DYNAMIC/EARTHQUAKE ANALYSIS, OTHER Moderators: Tracy Brettma P.E., D.GE, Berkel & Compay Cotractors, Ic.; Xiaoya Log, Ph.D., P.E., Fugro GeoCosultig, Ic. 8:05 am - 8:25 am Dyamic Soil-Structure Iteractio Aalysis for Base-Isolatio Desig of the Evergree Poit Bridge, Seattle, Washigto Jeremy Butkovich, Shao & Wilso, Ic. 8:30 am - 8:50 am Self Hardeig Slurry Wall Istallatio by Hydromill at the Herbert Hoover Dike A Iovative Solutio Mario Mauro, Treviicos 8:55 am - 9:15 am Observatioal ad Numerical Evaluatio of Defects i Deep Mixig Method Colums Used for LNG Process Trai Structural Foudatio Support Paul Sabatii, Ph.D., P.E., Geosytec Cosultats 9:20 am - 10:00 am BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL 10:05 am - 10:25 am Numerical Modelig of Foudatio Deformatio due to Fault Rupture Amalia Giaakou, Ph.D., P.E., Fugro Cosultats, Ic. 10:30 am - 10:50 am Numerical Study o the Behavior of Iclied Micropile Sepideh Damavadiejad Mofared, Uiversity of Tabriz 10:55 am - 11:15 am Measured ad Modeled Settlemets of Piled Raft Foudatios Giai Chieruzzi, P.E., GZA GeoEvirometal of New York 11:20 am - 11:40 am Pile-Supported Raft Foudatio System Emre Birige, Bechtel Power 11:45 am - 1:00 pm LUNCHEON (Techical Committee Reports / Treasurer's Report / Geeral Busiess Discussio) 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm HAL HUNT LECTURE ON COMMUNICATIONS James Pappas, VP, Ultra-Deepwater Programs for RPSEA SESSION V: IN-SITU TESTING OF DEEP FOUNDATIONS Moderators: Sahadat Hossai, Ph.D., P.E., The Uiversity of Texas; Gerald Verbeek, Allamics USA 1:45 pm - 2:05 pm Hydraulic Drive Head Performace Curves for Predictio of Helical Pile Capacity Doald Deardorff, P.E., Foudatio Supportworks, Ic. 2:10 pm - 2:30 pm Itegrity Evaluatio of Drive Cocrete Piles Utilizig Embedded Data Collectors Doald Robertso, P.E., Applied Foudatio Testig Ic. 2:35 pm - 2:55 pm New No-Destructive Testig Method for Drilled Shafts ad ACIP Piles George Piscsalko, P.E., Pile Dyamics, Ic. 3:00 pm - 3:40 pm BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL 3:45 pm - 4:05 pm Optimizatio of Drilled Shaft Desig for a Highway Bridge i Arizoa Usig Load Test Results Samer Rabab'ah, Gaett Flemig, Ic. 4:10 pm - 4:30 pm New CIGMAT Dowhole Peetrometer for Use Durig Drilled Shaft Costructio Cumaraswamy Vipulaada, P.E., Ph.D., Uiversity of Housto 4:35 pm - 4:55 pm Ucertaities i CSL Test Iterpretatios ad Recommedatios Towards a More Efficiet Process Mark Rohrbach, P.E., Lachel Felice & Associates Ic. 5:00 pm - 5:20 pm Aalysis ad Performace of Sheet Pile Cofferdams uder Demolitio Blast Loads Michael Oaklad, Weidliger Associates, Ic. 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm AWARDS RECEPTION 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm AWARDS BANQUET * subject to chage 7

Full Coferece Schedule* (cotiued) Day 3 Friday, October 19 8:00 am - 8:30 am BREAKFAST IN EXHIBIT HALL 8:35 am - 9:15 am KEYNOTE LECTURE: Cotiuous Advacemet of Drillig Efficiecy through New Methods ad Equipmet Techology Professor Sebastia Bauer, Maagig Director, BAUER Maschie GmbH SESSION VI: CURRENT ISSUES IN THE DEEP FOUNDATIONS INDUSTRY Moderators: Jeremy Clark, BAUER-Pileco Ic.; Joh Ziebell, Deeef Costructio Chemicals Ic. 9:20 am - 9:35 am Studet Paper Competitio Wier Presetatio 9:40 am - 9:55 am Youg Professor Paper Competitio Wier Presetatio 10:00 am - 10:20 am Thermo-Mechaical Testig of Eergy Piles at Virgiia Tech Guey Olgu, Ph.D., Virgiia Tech 10:25 am - 11:05 am BREAK 11:10 am - 11:30 am Closed Loop Stadig Colum Well Techology Paul Suver, America Piledrivig Ic. 11:15 am - 12:45 pm 2013 PHOENIX CONFERENCE EXHIBIT SPACE REGISTRATION 11:35 am - 11:55 am East Bosto Brach Sewer Relief Project Support of Excavatio Case Study Eric Bregma, GZA GeoEvirometal, Ic. 12:00 pm - 12:20 pm Repair Methods for Corroded Steel Piles Cumaraswamy Vipulaada, P.E., Ph.D., Uiversity of Housto 12:25 pm - 12:45 pm CLOSING REMARKS 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Post Coferece Tour of BAUER-Pileco Poster Sessio Presetatios* Note: Posters will also be o display durig receptios ad breaks throughout the coferece. Numerical Modelig of Dyamic Soil- Structure Iteractio i Bridges with HP Drive Piles Yu Bao, Adrew Rietz ad Steve Halewski, Rochester Istitute of Techology Optimizatio of Desig of Drilled Shaft Foudatios by Lateral Load Testig Doald Clark, Terraco Cosultats, Ic. Determiatio of Hydraulic Coductivity of The Coastal Corallie Limestoe of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Precautios ad Recommedatios for Deep Foudatios Mohammad Eliwah, Omar Jazzar Cosultig Egieers Usig Desig-Build Syergy to Deliver Pile Foudatios David P. Sauls, P.E.; Larry D. Sat, P.E.; Suil Malla, P.E.; GeoEgieers, Ic. Load Tests o Large Diameter Bored Piles i Cemeted Sads Nabil F. Ismael, Civil Egieerig Departmet, Kuwait Uiversity Experimetal Studies o Behaviour of Sigle Pile Uder Combied Uplift ad Lateral Loads K. Madhusuda Reddy, Ph.D., Idia Istitute of Techology Delhi Axial Behavior of Auger Cast Piles i Ier Coastal Plai Geology Bria Ladd, S&ME, Ic. Acrylamide Groutig: Successfully Cotrollig Groudwater from Caada to South America Jim Getry ad Daiel Magill, Avati Iteratioal Alterative Deep Foudatio Solutios DMM at LPV-111 i New Orleas Wesley Schmutzler, Treviicos Pile Desig ad Costructio Challeges i Partially Thawed Alaska Soils Joh Thorley, P.E., Hatteburg Dilley & Liell Mii-Pile Desig ad Costructio Methods Chage to Mitigate Soil Loss through Glacial Till Cassadra Wetzel, P.E., GZA GeoEvirometal 8 * subject to chage

For Youg Professioals ad Studets Youg Professioal Registratio I a effort to meet DFI s goal of havig youg professioals ad studets make up half of the total attedace, DFI is offerig a discouted rate to Youg Professioals. A full coferece registratio is offered for idustry persoel uder the age of 30 at half price. Just $395!! This rate icludes all coferece activities that do ot require a separate ticket, providig studets ad youg professioals with the total coferece experiece. Networkig, learig from seior level persoel ad iteractig with peers are just some of the beefits. Brig two of your uder 30 colleages for the price of oe! DFI Studet Spaghetti Bridge Competitio This competitio will kick-off the three-day-log coferece for college studets ad recet graduates o Tuesday, October 16th. Five teams of studets from various colleges ad uiversities will participate. Studet teams will preset their bridges o Wedesday, October 17th durig the welcome luch to attedees where they will be tested for load capacity. The wiig bridge will be determied by the highest load/bridge weight ratio. The wiig team will receive a cash prize of $1,000 from DFI. Career Fair DFI will hold a Career Fair durig the Aual Coferece i the exhibit hall. Exhibitig compaies are ecouraged to submit job opeigs to DFI HQ (egroeewal@dfi.org) to have posted durig the coferece. Represetatives from the participatig compaies will be available to meet ad etwork with studets ad youg professioals at their booths i the exhibit hall. We expect this to be a great etworkig opportuity for all who participate. Studet & Youg Professor Paper Competitio Awards: Each year the DFI Educatioal Trust sposors a paper competitio for studets ad youg professors. The purpose of the competitios is to ecourage studets ad youg professors to write papers relatig to deep foudatio desig ad costructio. Studet ad professor submissios are judged separately by the DFI paper competitio committee with assistace by DFI techical committee members i order to determie the best papers each year. Wiers are provided a presetatio spot at the coferece, publicatio of their wiig paper i the coferece proceedigs or DFI Joural, full coferece registratio, $750 travel stiped, two-year complimetary DFI idividual membership ad 20 publicatios from DFI s library. Joi us at the Awards Baquet to cogratulate this year s wiers. 2012 Awards Receptio ad Baquet Thursday, October 18 The Distiguished Service Award ad the ew Bill Bermigham Iovatio Award will be preseted at the Award Baquet - wiers to be aouced! Wid dow after a full day of coferece activities at the Awards Receptio. This evet takes place prior to the Awards Dier (separate ticket item) ad is ope to all coferece attedees. Ejoy live coutry music ad lear the two-step durig the receptio, the settle i for the baquet ad the award presetatios. Outstadig Project Award Thursday, October 18, 2012 Project Title: Top-Dow Costructio ad Complex SOE Desig Keeps Hudso River out of the New 9A Pedestria Uderpass Project Summary: The 9A Pedestria Uderpass is a cut-ad-cover tuel coectig New York City s World Fiacial Ceter (WFC) at its ew Witergarde Pavilio to the World Trade Ceter (WTC) Tower 1, crossig beeath the heavily trafficked Route 9A (9A). The uderpass replaces the former North Pedestria Bridge which was destroyed o 9/11. It was desiged by the Port Authority of New York ad New Jersey (PANYNJ) ad the Dowtow Desig Partership (DDP), a Joit Veture of STV, AECOM, ad PTG). The desig utilizes a perimeter secat pile wall to accommodate covetioal bottom-up costructio of the tuel box. 9

Pre-Coferece Evets* Tuesday, October 16 Three cocurret evets will take place the day before the coferece. A separate registratio fee is required. DFI ad its techical committees welcome your participatio i oe of them to ehace your coferece experiece. Additioally, the 15 committees will meet Tuesday ight ad Wedesday morig to discuss past busiess ad future activities. Their meetigs are ope to the public at o charge, so sit i o oe ad see DFI s missio i actio. Attedees receive a certificate verifyig Professioal Developmet Hours (amout to be determied) (NYS approval pedig. Florida Sate Provider Number 4072 iclude your licese umber o registratio form). Register for oe evet oly as they ru cocurretly. Desig & Costructability of Diaphragm Walls This short course will provide a oversight of the desig ad practical applicatio of the use of diaphragm walls as support of excavatio system ad will be of particular iterest to cotractors, developers & trasportatio authority represetatives, desigers ad cosultats ivolved i major earth retetio projects of a challegig ature especially i urba eviromet. The desig oversight will provide a itroductio of the d-wall performace compared to other earth retetio systems, desig of circular shafts ad top-dow systems ad review of recommeded maiteace ad repair procedures. The practical applicatio oversight will focus o equipmet selectio & characteristics, type of pael joits, logistic requiremets, quality cotrol ad specific features that ca be icorporated i a d-wall. A pael composed of slurry wall cotractors ad desig egieers will preset this short-course based o case histories to illustrate the applicatio of the d-wall techique preseted i the course. Augered Cast-i-Place Pile Short Course & Specialty Semiar Augered cast-i-place (ACIP) piles, also kow as cotiuous flight auger (CF A), are beig icreasigly used for supportig buildigs, bridges, soud barrier walls ad may other structures aroud the world. Auger piles, with their load-displacemet behavior geerally fall i betwee that of a drilled shaft ad a drive pile, ad hece eed to be desiged for various applicatios. ACIP piles are beig also socketed i rocks. Differet desig methods are available i practice to estimate the ultimate bearig capacity of ACIP piles based upo i-situ soil properties, uit ski frictio ad uit ed bearig. There are various types of ACIP pilig systems curretly i use ad desigig ad costructig issues (istallatio process ad equipmet), specificatios icludig the QA/QC procedures, for ACIP piles will be discussed. Load test results from various geological formatios will be discussed. Several case studies icludig a highway bridge totally supported o ACIP piles will be preseted. Practical, Prudet, ad Effective Use of Computer Software for Lateral Aalysis of Deep Foudatios A short course etitled "Practical, Prudet, ad Effective Use of Computer Software for the Lateral Aalysis of Deep Foudatios" is beig plaed for the Deep Foudatios Istitute's 2012 Aual Coferece i Housto, Texas. The purpose of this short course is to provide egieers, desigers, cotractors ad software providers with the opportuity to share opiios o the effective ad practical use of computer software for geotechical aalysis ad desig. The focus of the sessio is orieted toward providig attedees with the iformatio eeded for selectio ad appropriate applicatio of software for lateral aalysis of deep foudatios for buildig support ad slope stabilizatio. Full program schedules ad preseter ames ca be viewed at www.dfi.org 10 Post Coferece Tour* Friday, October 19 1:00-4:00 pm BAUER Maufacturig, Ic. Complimetary to coferece attedees, Sig up required BAUER Maufacturig Ic. is located i Coroe, Texas, approximately 40 miutes orth of Housto. The maufacturig complex cosists of three productio halls, situated o a 80 acre site, to build foudatio drillig equipmet ad fabricate steel accessories. The tour will provide viewig of the followig facilities*: The Steel Productio Hall, where BAUER maufactures Casig, Toolig ad Drill Rig compoets. The evirometally friedly Fiishig Hall, which ca accommodate complete BAUER Drillig Rigs The Assembly Hall where buildig ad testig takes place o a variety of BAUER ad KLEMM braded, track-drive, Drillig Rigs Also icluded o the tour are beverages ad sacks o the bus ride ad luch whe you arrive. Attedees will be brought back to the Hilto-Americas at approximately 4pm. *facility tours are subject to chage depedet o availability ad time costraits. * subject to chage

Coferece Lecturers 2012 Keyote Lecture Wedesday, October 17, 2012: 1:45 pm Stability Aalyses for Slope Stabilizatio Measures Lessos Leared Dr. Stephe G. Wright, P.E. Presetatio Summary: Slope stabilizatio with piles, piers, soil ails ad tieback achors is usually aalyzed employig some form of covetioal limit equilibrium slope stability aalysis software adapted to iclude such reiforcig elemets. While the iclusio of reiforcig elemets ito such software is straightforward, the aalyses are sometimes complex with uexpected or ucertai results. Examples of lessos leared from such aalyses ad recommeded practices for reducig potetial problems ad errors will be preseted. About Dr. Stephe Wright: Dr. Wright is a professioal egieer ad professor emeritus of the Uiversity of Texas at Austi. He received B.S., M.S. ad Ph.D. degrees from the Uiversity of Califoria, Berkeley. He has over 40 years of experiece with teachig, research ad cosultig i geotechical egieerig with specializatio i the area of soil shear stregth ad slope stability. He is the author of umerous techical papers ad reports, co-author of the book Soil Stregth ad Slope Stability by Joh Wiley ad Sos, ad the curret U. S. Army Corps of Egieers Maual EM 1110-2-1902 Egieerig ad Desig - Slope Stability. He is also the sole author of 2012 Hal Hut Lecture o Commuicatio Thursday, October 18, 2012: 1:00 pm Differet Challeges with Chagig Techologies James Pappas About James Pappas: James Pappas is Vice Presidet of Ultra-Deepwater Programs for RPSEA, the Research Partership to Secure Eergy for America, i Sugar Lad, TX. He has held the positios of Global Techology Coordiator, Facilities Egieer i the Deepwater & Iteratioal Well Egieerig & Facilities Divisio, Deepwater Project Coordiator for Devo Eergy i the past, as well as Productio Egieer i the Gulf of Mexico Divisio for Devo, ad Sata Fe Syder. He has also held drillig, completios, productio, operatios, reservoir, ad A&D positios with Fia, UPRC, ad Amoco. He has bee ivolved with the Society of Petroleum Egieers for 33 years. He is both the immediate past SPE Iteratioal Productio ad Operatios Techical Director ad SPE Techical Programs ad Meetigs Committee Chair, ad is a former chair of the GCS Scholarship Committee, Geeral Meetig, Drillig Study Group, ad SPE- Gulf Coast Sectio Board of Directors. He is a member of the GCS Scholarship ad Nomiatig Committees. He has served o several techical program committees for the OTC, ATCE, LACPEC, SPE R&D Coferece, ad the SPE P&O Coferece. He is also the immediate past Private Idustry Practice Chair ad Executive Committee member of the Texas Society of Professioal Egieers ad serves o that body s Legislative ad Govermetal Affairs Committee. James has authored over 70 papers or spoke at cofereces ad iterviews o various techical ad professioal topics. the computer codes kow as UTEXAS4 ad TexGraf4 for slope stability aalyses. He has served as cosultat to the U. S. Army Corps of Egieers ad umerous private orgaizatios o slope stability. He was a member of the Desig Review Team for the Corps of Egieers' project o slope stabilizatio of bluff slopes i loess at Natchez, Mississippi, ad a member of Iteragecy Performace Evaluatio Team for the performace of the New Orleas flood protectio system durig Hurricae Katria. James eared a BS i Chemical Egieerig ad a BA i Chemistry from the Uiversity of Texas at Austi i 1979. He graduated with a MBA highest hoors from the Uiversity of Texas at Tyler i 1993. He has eared the SPE-Gulf Coast Sectio ad SPE Gulf Coast Regio Service Awards, as well as both the Housto Area Egieer of the Year i 2007 ad Texas Egieer of the Year by the Texas Society of Professioal Egieers i 2008, ad he was selected Distiguished Egieer i Texas by the Texas Egieerig Foudatio i 2008. He has bee a Registered Professioal Egieer i sice 1985. 2012 Keyote Lecture Friday, October 19, 2012: 8:35 am Cotiuous Advacemet of Drillig Efficiecy through New Methods ad Equipmet Techology Prof. Dr.-Ig. Sebastia Bauer Presetatio Summary: The efficiecy of costructio equipmet o the site is more importat tha it has bee ever before. It depeds o usig the right costructio method, which has to be supported by the equipmet, o the efficiecy factor of the equipmet ad o the perfect support of the operator by the equipmet, ivolvig advaced electroic cotrol ad assistat systems. The costructio method however, has the largest ifluece o efficiecy. The umber of methods has bee icreasig for decades up to ow ad lots of effort is take every year ito their optimizatio. About Prof. Sebastia Bauer: Prof. Bauer is Maagig Director of BAUER Maschie GmbH. He is resposible for the R&D of all Bauer equipmet with a team of some 250 people. He was also heavily ivolved i the iteratioal productio strategy of Bauer, dramatically icreasig the productio capacity i Chia ad buildig a big productio facility from scratch i the USA. He is a direct descedat of the Bauer family who origially fouded the compay i 1790 ad is oe of the major shareholders of the BAUER Group. Prof. Bauer studied Mechaical Egieerig at the Techical Uiversity of Muich ad after workig there as a Research Assistat he achieved a doctorate degree. He has bee lecturig as hoorary professor at the Uiversity of Bochum (RUB) i the field of Off Road Machiery sice 2001 with courses i Hydraulics of Mobile Equipmet ad Computatioal Mechaics for Costructio Machiery. Amogst others, he is Vice Chairma of the Executive Board of VDMA BuB (Associatio of Germa Maufacturers of Costructio Equipmet ad Buildig Material Machiery), Chairma of FVB (Research Associatio for Costructio Equipmet ad Buildig Material Machiery) ad a member of the Coucil of the Igolstadt Uiversity of Applied Scieces. 11

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