Dr. Erik Loehr, P.E. Receives ADSC Award

By Robert Thompson, on June 13th, 2011

Dr. Erik Loehr, P.E. was honored by the ADSC with the ADSC Outstanding Service Award, presented at the President’s Luncheon at their 2011 annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana (Feb 1 –5, 2011). The award recognized Erik’s research in the use of micropiles for slope stabilization and as foundations. From the March/April 2011 edition of Foundation Drilling:

ADSC’s Outstanding Service Award was garnered by Dr. J. Erik Loehr, University of Missouri, in acknowledgment of his research and educational efforts that advance the technical aspects of the drilled foundation and anchored earth retention industries.

Dr. Loehr is currently on the faculty of the University of Missouri and is a consultant with DBA.

Events Calendar Updated for 2010

By Robert Thompson, on December 18th, 2009

I have updated our calendar for 2010 to include many events in the geotechnical and foundation engineering world that may be of interest, plus known speaking/teaching appearances by Dan. I’ll put in a plug for the events calendars and listings for ADSC, DFI, Geo-Institute, and PDCA. I get most of my information from them.

Some, but not all events,(in addition to my previous post) are:

DFI Helical Foundations & Tiebacks Specialty Seminar – Feb 1

Geo-Florida 2010 – Feb 20-24