Construction SuperConference 2017

Dan Brown
President and Senior Principal Engineer
Dan Brown and Associates


Dr. Dan Brown, P.E. has a distinguished career of practice, research, and instruction in the field of deep foundations. Dr. Brown is a graduate of Georgia Tech (1977) and the University of Texas (PhD, 1985). He is particularly known for his expertise in design of deep foundations for lateral loading, load testing of deep foundations, and construction of drilled shafts. He is the co-author (with Dr. Turner) of Drilled Shafts: Construction Procedures and LRFD Design Methods (2010), the FHWA manual on the design and construction of drilled shafts. He is also the co-developer and an instructor for the NHI drilled shaft design and construction course based on the manual. In addition to the drilled shaft manual, Dr. Brown was the lead author of FHWA Geotechnical Engineering Circular 8, Design and Construction of Continuous Flight Auger Piles (2007). He is a member and past chairman of the Geo-Institute (formerly ASCE) Deep Foundations Committee, a trustee of the Deep Foundations Institute, an honorary member of ADSC: The International Association of Foundation Drilling and of the Pile Driving Contractors Association. Dr. Brown has received numerous awards, including the ASCE Martin Kapp Foundation Engineering Award for "improvements in the design and quality of drilled shaft construction," the ASCE Huber Prize for Research for his work with pile groups and bridge foundations, the ADSC Outstanding Service Award, the Auburn University Gottlieb Professorship, the 2011 DFI Distinguished Service Award, and induction into the Moles Society. He is an active consultant on many large projects involving deep foundations, and known for his work in pile group behavior and in construction and testing of deep foundations. Dr. Brown was a member of the Civil Engineering faculty at Auburn University from 1987 - 2009 and is a licensed professional engineer in numerous states.

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