Bill DeGroff, manager of geotechnical laboratory services at Fugro Consultants Inc., Houston, Texas has been honored with the Woodland G. Shockley Memorial Award from ASTM International Committee D18 on Soil and Rock. The committee presented the award in recognition of DeGroff’s long and meritorious service to the committee’s standards activities.

DeGroff, who joined ASTM in 1979, serves as a member at large on the D18 executive subcommittee and chairs the Subcommittee on Information Retrieval and Data Automation. Past awards he has received from the committee include a Special 30 Year Service Award, the D18 Technical Editors Award, Richard S. Ladd Standards Development Award and a Laboratory Participants Award.

An experienced laboratory manager with more than 50 years of experience, DeGroff is a licensed professional engineer in the states of Ohio and Texas. He has been with Fugro, the world’s largest integrator of geotechnical, survey, subsea and geosciences services, since 1995. Prior to that he owned DeGroff Technical Services, worked in regional sales for Brainard Kilman, and was a lab manager for McClelland Engineers, all located in Houston.

DeGroff is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers in addition to ASTM. A graduate of Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, where he received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, DeGroff also hold a master’s degree in geotechnical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

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