The project titled “Thermal Response of a Large-Diameter Geothermal Energy Pile in Lateritic Soils” is recently funded by Lemann Institute Collaborative Research Grant. The PI Tugce Baser at UofI and co-PI Cristina de Hollanda Cavalcanti Tsuha at University of São Paulo will perform field tests at the São Carlos campus to develop reliable methods to characterize thermal processes at the lateritic soil-pile interface. The project is tentatively scheduled to start in August 2019. We thank to our sponsor for funding this research.