The Deep Foundations Institute named the Thermal Integrity Profiler as the 2013 winner of the C. William Bermingham Award for Innovation.
Foundations & Geotechnical Engineering LLC of Plant City, Fla., and Pile Dynamics of Cleveland developed the Thermal Integrity Profiler (TIP) following research conducted at the University of South Florida. In a release, the DFI said the TIP is “unlike any other system of assessing quality and integrity of cast-in-place concrete foundations.” The device uses the heat generated by curing cement to assess the quality of drilled shafts, bored piles, augered piles, and drilled displacement piles.