May/June 2023 - 25

Conference Schedule* | Day Two | Parallel Sessions | Friday, June 9
* All functions located on Marquis Level *
7:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Conference Registration | Marquis Registration Booth
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Networking Breakfast and Exhibition | Marquis Salons A-B
Moderator & Speaker Technical Rehearsal | Meet at Your Respective Podiums, Imperial Salons A-B
8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. PARALLEL SESSION A1: ACIP and Ground Improvement
Imperial Salon A
Moderator: Hunter Landry | Cajun Industries, LLC
8:30 a.m. - 8:40 a.m.
Conference Welcome
8:40 a.m. - 9:05 a.m. Continuous Flight Auger Cast Piles for Bridge Foundations
Austin Spencer and Michael Alestra | Pennoni Associates, Inc.
9:05 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. One Dock Street: A Multi-Scope Geotechnical Challenge in the
Heart of Philadelphia
Hannah Iezzoni, P.E. | KELLER
9:30 a.m. - 9:55 a.m. Challenges of Designing and Constructing CFA Piles in Highly
Variable Bedrock in Manhattan, New York
Scott Garfield P.E., P.G. and Asif Arshid, Ph.D. | Langan Engineering
and Environmental Services, Inc.
9:55 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
Current Trends in Deep Foundations for Tall Structures in
Urban Areas
W. Morgan NeSmith, P.E., D.GE | BERKEL & Company Contractors, Inc.
10:20 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Networking Break and Exhibition | Marquis Salons A-B
11:05 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. PARALLEL SESSION A2: Drilled Displacement Piles & Drilled Shafts
Moderator: Scott Jacobs | KELLER
11:05 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. An Analytical Model for Drilled Displacement Piles
Sujan Bhattacharya, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE | Kiewit Infrastructure
Engineering, Inc.
11:30 a.m. - 11:55 p.m. Effects of Energy Loops on the Geotechnical Performance of
Geothermal Energy Piles
Joshua Omer, Ph.D., GMICE | Kingston University London
11:55 p.m. - 12:20 p.m. Analyses & Construction Challenges of Deepest Bored Cast-in-Situ
Raker Piling for Bridge Across Volta River, Ghana
Naveen Govindaraju, MTech, MIRC and Sunil S. Basarkar, Ph.D. | AFCONS
Infrastructure Limited
12:20 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. Advances in Drilled Foundation Testing Techniques
Benjamin White, P.E. and Michael Morgano | GRL Engineers, Inc.
12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Networking Luncheon | Marquis Salons C-D
1:50 p.m. - 3:05 p.m.
1:50 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Dynamic Load Testing of Non-Uniform Piles
Thai Nguyen, Ph.D., P.E. | H2R Corp
2:15 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. A Case Study to Evaluate the Capacity of H-Pile Reinforced Auger
Cast Pile Utilizing Bi-directional Load Testing
Md Nur Basit Zaman, Ph.D. and Billy Fisher | Russo Corporation
2:40 p.m. - 3:05 p.m. Analysis of Bi-directional Static Load Tests on Large Barrettes
Ahmed Al-Mufty, Ph.D., P.Eng. | Rocscience, Inc.
3:05 p.m. - 3:35 p.m.
3:35 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Networking Break and Exhibition | Marquis Salons A-B
Exhibitor Breakdown | Marquis Salons A-B
3:40 p.m. - 4:35 p.m. CLOSING PLENARY | Imperial Salon A
Moderator: W. Morgan NeSmith, P.E., D.GE | BERKEL & Company Contractors
3:40 p.m. - 4:25 p.m. Invited Speaker: The Role of Interface Compatibility in Deep Foundation Performance | J. David Frost, Ph.D, P.E, P.Eng, F.ASCE | School
of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
4:25 p.m. - 4:35 p.m. Closing Remarks
*Subject to Change
PARALLEL SESSION B2: Driven and Helical Piles
Moderator: Seth Hamblin, P.E. | Geosciences Testing & Research, Inc.
Downdrag Force Determination by Neutral Plane Method on Driven 24Inch
Prestressed Concrete Square (PSCS) Piles in Coastal Plain Geology
Matthew English, P.E., Mike Batten, P.E., and Brian Keaney, P.E. | HDR
Engineering, Inc.
Pile Driving Blow Counts Criteria or 100% Testing: Advantages,
Disadvantages, and Best Practices
Mohamad Hussein, P.E. | GRL Engineers
Construction Sequence for Settlement Control at Bridge End Bents
and Reducing Drag Load on HP Piles
Paul Zhang, Ph.D. | HDR, Inc.
Helical Piles - A Solution for Urban Areas
Vincent A. Siefert, P.E. and Ram Kasturi, P.E. | Siefert Associates, LLC
PARALLEL SESSION B1: Micropiles
Imperial Salon B
Moderator: Anthony Metz, P.E. | GEI Consultants, Inc.
Conference Welcome
Underpinning of Historic Structures
Richard Guenther and Sungje Chi, P.E. | BERKEL & Company
Contractors, Inc.
Fenway Center Development: Air-Rights Project Uses HighCapacity
Micropiles to Support New Buildings in Boston, MA
Connor Johnson and Bob Tonning, P.E.| Phoenix Foundation Company
Every Inch Counts - Retrofit of Federal Building Using Hollow Bar
Micropile Foundations
Tyler Belk | KELLER
Flood Prone Foundations - Taking Pile Caps to New Heights
Justin Toney, P.E. | Crux Subsurface, Inc.
PARALLEL SESSION A3: Testing and Evaluation
Moderator: Benjamin White, P.E. | GRL Engineers, Inc.
PARALLEL SESSION B3: Helical Piles and Tiebacks
Moderator: Mark Bryant, EIT | BHATE Geosciences
Field Based performance of Helical Piles Installed in High
Expansive Clay
Sadik Khan, Ph.D., P.E., Masoud Nobahar, P.h.D., E.I., and Henry Chia |
Jackson State University
Effect of Helix Flex and Soil Type on Torque Correlation Factor Kt
of Helical Piles
Moncef Souissi and Philip Slemons | Cantsink
Helical Piles: Reinforcement of Broken Foundations After Five Years
of Installation
Crysthian Purcino Bernardes Azevedo, Ph.D. | ADONAI Engineering and
Daniel Renosto | PierTech Systems

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