DFI Magazine September/October 2020 - 71

REGIONAL

REPORT

DFI of India
The team at DFI of India (DFII) has been
working hard to continue to provide
benefits to DFI members in our region
amidst the challenges of the COVID-19
crisis. We empathize with all DFII members
who are also facing difficulties at this time
as we strive to provide support through
innovative activities that include
educational and business networking
opportunities for our professional
geotechnical and construction community.
These activities include one-to-one phone
contacts, chapter informational presentations, virtual meetings, webinars and
more. In fact, there is no letup in our efforts
to stay on course. As the adage goes, "One
has to work hard to be lucky."
In turn, we seek your assistance through
your active participation in DFI events,
financial support, and spreading the word
to clients and colleagues of the benefits they
too can have by joining DFII. With your
involvement, financial contributions and an
increase in members, the DFI of India team
will be able to forge ahead, achieve financial
stability and be of effective service to the
deep foundations industry.
My sincere thanks to DFI for choosing
me as this year's Distinguished Service
Award recipient (see page 39). I consider it
as recognition of the great support,
guidance and service being rendered by the
entire organization, both within DFI in the
U.S. and DFI of India (DFII) for more than a
decade. I want to express my deep
gratitude to all.

ArcelorMittal, headquartered in
Luxembourg City. Joao Martins,
head of the multinational
c o m p a n y 's Te c h n i c a l a n d
Marketing Department for
Commercial RPS-Sheet Piling,
delivered the lecture. The
presentation focussed on arriving
at a cost-effective, sustainable solution for
each of the permanent (quay walls, etc.) and
temporary (cofferdams, trenches, etc.)
retaining wall applications. Martins outlined
each retaining wall design, and covered
geotechnical considerations, assumptions
and governing criteria, design models and
software, as well as factors such as durability,
sustainability, and noise and other installation restrictions.
The free webinar was attended by 306
persons from 18 countries, with questions
ably handled by Manager Amruta Vijayan
from ArcelorMittal, India.
DFII hosted three more webinars by the
company about sheet pile design in highly
s eis mic areas ( Au gu s t 1 2 , 2 0 2 0 ) ,
innovative steel wall solutions for ports
(August 26, 2020), and developing circular

Dr. K.S. Rama Krishna
DFI of India Chair
drksramakrishna@dfi-india.org

cells from straight web steel
sheet piles for deep coffer dams,
quay walls and break waters
(September 9, 2020). A few related
webinars are being planned with other
sponsoring companies, and will cover
installation equipment and case studies.
In addition, DFII has provided virtual
presentations about its activities to more
than 250 engineers that represent more
than 15 companies, likely increasing
membership. If your company would like a
DFII informational presentation, we look
forward to the opportunity to provide that.

2020 Virtual Conference
With 2020 heralding our 10th successive
DFI of India conference, we had planned a
grand event. Realizing that would be
impractical, we are holding this conference in three parts to make it unique,
purposeful and impactful to all the

Webinar 1 Attendee Types

Attendee
Countries

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New Webinars
DFII has embarked on a series of
educational sessions on the latest solutions,
technologies and applications to benefit all
stakeholders, including students. With
support from manufacturers of sheet piles,
equipment installation experts, consultants
and others, the office scheduled a webinar
series on steel retaining structures and
foundations. The first webinar about steel
retaining systems was held on July 29, 2020.
It was sponsored by steel manufacturer

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