Van Komurka P.E., D.GE, John Peirce, Jr., P.E., D.GE among DICEP 2024 presenters

Have you registered to attend DICEP 2024? The annual PDCA technical conference will be held in Chicago on September 10 and 11 at the Renaissance Chicago O'Hare Suites Hotel; hotel rooms are available until August 19th at a special conference rate. Register to attend and secure your room before this insightful, educational event is full. 

If you are seeking an opportunity to market your products and services in the deep foundations industry, you might consider becoming an event exhibitor or sponsor; openings are still available. Please visit the the DICEP 2024 website to view the full event program, you can see a shortened version at the bottom of this page. Or, click the button below to complete your registration and/or secure your exhibition space or sponsorship, today.

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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

• 7:15 AM 8:00 AM        Short Course Breakfast
• 8:00 AM 12:30 PM      Optional Short Course: *Advanced registration required; Quality Control and Quality Assurance of Driven Piles Foundations and Steel Sheet Walls, Mohamad Hussein, PE, GRL Engineers, Inc.; Gerry McShane, Service Steel Warehouse 
• 2:00 PM 2:30 PM         Registration / Coffee & Snack Break
• 2:30 PM 3:00 PM         DICEP Opening Ceremony & Welcome Announcements
• 3:00 PM 4:00 PM         Pile Driving Design & Operation Challenges in Mega Projects Panel Discussion
• 4:00 PM 4:45 PM         Cantilevered Sheet Pile Walls Comparison of Design Methods, John J. Peirce, Jr., P.E., BC.GE, Peirce Engineering, Inc.
• 4:45 PM 5:15 PM         Subsurface Pile Driving Induced Ground Motions, A Review; and Implications for Volumetric Change of Saturated Sands, Chuck Dowding, PhD, Northwestern University
• 5:15 PM 7:00 PM          Meet & Greet Reception

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

• 7:00 AM 8:00 AM         Registration / Breakfast 
• 8:00 AM 8:15 AM         Welcome & Announcements
• 8:15 AM 9:15 AM        Tentative: US Army Corps Technical Presentation
• 9:15 AM 10:15 AM      Designing Durability into Steel Sheet Piling Structures, Gerry McShane, Service Steel Warehouse
• 10:45 AM 11:15 AM      Automated Pile Driving Data Collection on INDOT Bridges,Mir A. Zaheer, P.E., Manager Geotechnical Consultant, IN DOT
• 11:15 AM 12:00 PM     Driving Excellence: Cajun Industries' PLNG Driven Pile Mega Project, Jimmy Nettles, Senior Project Manager, Cajun Industries, LLC and Jordan Romero, Project Manager, Cajun Industries, LLC
• 12:00 PM 1:00 PM        Luncheon 
• 1:00 PM 2:00 PM         Bridge Design Criteria with Driven Pile Foundations / Bridge Safety, Silas Nichols, PE, FHWA
• 2:00 PM 3:00 PM        Deep Foundations Comparison: Driven and Drilled, Michael Wysockey, PhD, PE, Thatcher Foundations
• 3:30 PM 4:30 PM        Soil / Pile Set Up in Driven Pile Foundation Design & Installation, Van E. Komurka, P.E., GRL Engineers, Inc.
• 4:30 PM 5:00 PM        Driven Pile Foundations for Design-Build Bridge Project Success, Ken Gollon, Walsh Construction