By Lynda Myer
As an award recognizes individuals who have made exceptionally valuable contributions to the advancement of the deep foundations industry, the Deep Foundation Institute’s (DFI) 2023 Distinguished Service Award reached to John R Wolosick from Keller North America.
While from October 31–November 3 Seattle is due to host DFI’s 48th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, the award will be presented to Wolosick at the Awards Banquet.
Wolosick is senior adviser for Keller North America, Atlanta, working on projects across the US. He has almost 45 years’ experience in geotechnical engineering and contracting and is the author of more than 35 technical papers.
Additionally, he is a past president of DFI (2014-2016) and was the DFI Traveling Lecturer in 2018-2019 and the trustee liaison to DFI’s Micropile Committee, whereas in 2008 the ASCE Geo-Institute Martin S Kapp Foundation Engineering Award belonged to him. In addition, he was named the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers’ ‘Engineer of the Year – Industry’ in 2017 and awarded the George F Sowers Piedmont Award by the Georgia Geo-Institute in 2019. He holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
