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Clyde N. Baker, Jr., A Geotechnical Giant (1930-2022)
DFI and the DFI Educational Trust are saddened at the passing
of industry legend Clyde N. Baker, Jr., P.E., S.E., who retired
after a successful career as senior principal engineer at STS
Consultants and later as a senior consultant at GEI
Consultants.
During his career, he served as a geotechnical engineer or
consultant on several of the tallest buildings in the world,
including four of the tallest in Chicago (the Willis Tower,
known as the Sears Building, Trump International Hotel &
Tower, the John Hancock Center, and the Amoco Building) as
well as Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, Taipei 101 in
Taiwan and Burj Khalifa in Dubai. He also worked as a
consultant on several supertall buildings, including the Spire
in Chicago, Doha Convention Center Tower in Qatar and
Incheon 151 Tower in Korea.
He was a leader in using in-situ testing techniques correlated
with past building performance to develop more efficient
foundation designs. In the Chicago soil profile, this facilitated
economical use of belled caissons on hard pan for structures
of 60 to 70 stories, which normally would have required
extending caissons to rock at significant cost premium.
Baker was the recipient of the DFI's Distinguished Service
Award, the ADSC Outstanding Service Award, ASCE's Thomas
A. Middlebrooks and Martin S. Kapp
Awards, and the ASCE Ralph B. Peck
Award, the 2007 Engineering News Record
Award of Excellence and the ASCE Opal
Lifetime Achievement Design Award.
He received the Washington Award and
presented the Terzaghi Lecture in 2009.
Baker received his bachelor's and master's degrees in civil
engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
a bachelor's degree in physics from William and Mary
College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
In 2020, the DFI Educational Trust established the Clyde N.
Baker, Jr. Foundation Engineering Scholarship Fund to
honor Baker's extraordinary contributions to the deep foundations
industry. To continue to provide scholarships in his
name, proceeds from this year's DFI Educational Trust Gala
Fundraising Dinner on November 3 in New York will benefit
the Baker fund and the Trust's General Fund. We hope you'll
join us or take this opportunity
to be a supporter of the Baker
fund by sponsoring the event or making a direct donation to the
fund. The goal is to bring the fund to a self-sustaining level to
provide perpetual scholarships in Clyde's name for years to
come. More information is available at www.dfitrust.org.
Malcolm Drilling Celebrates 60 Years
In 1962, John Malcolm founded
Malcolm Drilling with a single truck
mounted drill rig performing drill only
and small hard dollar projects. In the
following years, Malcolm developed a
reputation as a trailblazer and industry
leader in deep foundations. The
company is celebrating its anniversary
and the people, projects and values that
helped it grow into the largest familyowned
deep foundation contractor in
North America.
Over the past six decades Malcolm
has grown into a firm of more than
1,000 employees and 10 offices
nationwide. It offers a range of services
for deep foundat ions, retent ion
systems, ground improvement as well
as dewatering. A spokesperson said,
" Our team members' hard work,
dedication and passion have been
essential to our operations. Although
our geographic areas and services have
expanded, our fundamental principles
remain the same. With our foundational
values on safety, innovation, and
commitment to working together, we
have become an industry leader with a
bright future. We are grateful for our
past, and thrilled for our future, and
proud to celebrate this milestone with
our employees, clients and partners. "
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