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Deep Foundations Institute Announces
4th Annual Ben C. Gerwick Award Recipient
George G. Goble, PhD
Hawthorne, NJ - May 23, 2011 - George G. Goble, PhD, is the 2011 recipient of the Ben C. Gerwick Award for Innovation in the Design and Construction of Marine Foundations. This year's award is going to be presented at the June 9th Ben C. Gerwick, Jr. Innovation Awards Dinner being held during the DFI Marine Foundations Specialty Seminar in San Francisco.
The award honors Goble's body of innovative work and his leadership in developing the Pile Driving Analyzer (PDA) and the WEAP Program for analyzing pile driving by the wave equation method. This equipment and its computer programs are used in more than 40 countries providing a cost effective, fast, and reliable method of determining pile capacities. In the offshore and marine construction industry where conventional pile load tests are not an option due to extreme water depths, the PDA and WEAP Programs are often the only viable solution for reliably determining the capacity of driven piles.
Goble was the founder of Pile Dynamics, Inc., and Goble and Associates, Inc. (now GRL Engineers) of Cleveland. In 2000, he founded George G. Goble Consulting Engineer LLC, which does specialized consulting projects, primarily in the deep foundations area. Today George is a Corporate Member of DFI with Goble PileTest Inc.
KCICON Project
The kcICON project has reconstructed about four miles of Interstate 29/35 from just north of Route 210 (Armour Road) in North Kansas City, Clay County, continuing south over the Missouri River into the northeast corner of the downtown Kansas City, Mo., freeway loop. This feet was concluded 6 months ahead of schedule. See website
GMEC AWARD
Mohamad Hussein, P.E. received the Florida Engineering Society’s 2010 GMEC Award in recognition of outstanding service to the geotechnical and materials engineering profession.
Mr. Hussein has been associated with the original inventors of modern dynamic testing and analysis methods and equipment of deep foundations for almost 30 years. He is a Vice President at GRL Engineers, Inc. and manages its Florida office; he is also a Partner in Pile Dynamics, Inc. GRL Engineers is a consulting engineering firm that specializes in dynamic foundation testing and analysis. Pile Dynamics develops and produces foundation testing equipment and software.
Mr. Hussein is a registered professional engineer in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Ohio; and holds the internationally recognized Foundation QA’s Certification of Expert Level in dynamic pile testing. He has evaluated the foundations for more than 1000 projects throughout the world, many of which are notable and award winning projects.
He is a member in several deep foundations professional and trade organizations including the GMEC, ASCE (Chaired the Geo-Institute’s Deep Foundations Committee 2002 – 2009), PDCA (Chairman of the Education Committee), DFI, ADSC, and ASTM. Mohamad is an accomplished author, having published more than 80 technical papers, co-edited 7 books and co-authored the Geotechnical Engineering chapter of the widely used McGraw-Hill Handbook for Civil Engineers. Mohamad shares his professional expertise by travelling the country as an instructor of multiple courses, workshops and seminars on deep foundations.