COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR PETER KANDARIS, P.E. Electric Power Systems Foundations Committee Moving Forward in 2020 DFI's Electric Power Systems Foundations Committee continues to develop a state-of-the-practice white paper on electric power system foundation industry needs and to support a new ASCE subcommittee focused on the development of an industry manual of practice for the design and construction of transmission line and substation foundations. A team of committee members is working on a draft of the white paper aimed at providing recommendations for a uniform analysis and design approach for electric system deep foundations. Once reviews are complete, the final draft document will be sent to several other DFI technical committee chairs for review of foundation-specific content. The team aims to have all reviews completed and a final draft paper ready for presentation to the committee in June 2020. The completion of the white paper has become timely now that the ASCE Structural Engineering Institute's Electric Transmission and Substations Committee authorized the formation of an Overhead Line and Substation Foundations subcommittee for the 74 * DEEP FOUNDATIONS * MAY/JUNE 2020 development of an industry manual of practice. This new subcommittee met in Minneapolis in December 2019 and is busy developing a 15-chapter manual on all facets of transmission line and substation foundation investigation, design and construction. DFI's Electric Power System Foundations Committee is actively engaged with the new ASCE subcommittee, with 5 DFI committee members serving in the 27-member ASCE group. This new subcommittee is highly industry driven and includes 17 practicing electric utility engineers. The subcommittee has an ambitious goal to produce the manual of practice within the next couple of years while calling on DFI members and resources for guidance and technical expertise. The committee participated in the Midyear Committee Week and welcomed over 40 participants to the committee call. The participants discussed foundation research opportunities and needs in the electric power industry, with the objective of moving forward with the development of new DFI research requests for 2021.