The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announced that the keynote address at this year’s 38th annual Conference in Phoenix will be given by Jerry A. DiMaggio. The veteran civil engineer and principal at Jerry A. DiMaggio Consulting LLC is a retired principal bridge engineer and national geotechnical program manager with the U.S. Federal Highway Administration in Washington, D.C. He has consulted on more than 1,000 civil projects throughout the United States and the Americas, as well as the Middle East and Australia. DiMaggio also has a list of honors and awards that includes: U.S. Department of Transportation Administrator’s Award, the International Geosynthetics Society Achievement Medal and FHWA’s Engineer of the Year. He also served on the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Geo-Institute National Board of Governors and is a member of the Academy for Geotechnical Professionals.
He is also an adjunct professor at several universities. For the last few years, he has been conducting various forms of training, including webinars. The keynote address will discuss facts and fiction associated with Load Resistance Factor Design (LRFD), as well as outline advantages and limitations of that standard. DiMaggio is passionate about spreading the message of LRFD and implementing this standard among the old and the new generation of the geo-engineering and geo-construction communities.