3rd Workshop on EC7 & New Design Challenges

This year’s workshop will focus on three important geotechnical codes of practice – BS 8004, Code of practice for foundations, BS 8002, Code of practice for earth retaining structures, and BS 8081, Code of practice for grouted anchors – which are currently being revised. All three British Standards are expected to publish in the summer of 2015. The first two of these codes of practice were withdrawn in March 2010 to coincide with the introduction of Eurocode 7 (BS EN 1997). Funding from HS2 has enabled the BSI Standards Limited to commission work to revise the withdrawn codes of practice with input from the industry and create standards that provide ‘non-contradictory, complementary information’ (NCCI) for use in conjunction with BS EN 1997 and its UK National Annex. These revisions also offer industry the opportunity to update the technical content of standards that are now 20 to 30 years old. The revised BS 8002, BS 8004 and BS 8081 drafts are currently out for public consultation until 24 March 2015. These drafts can be viewed and commented on via the BSI online draft review system, http://drafts.bsigroup.com. Registration is free.

International speakers at the event will be Ole Møller and Julien Habert, who will share their experience with NCCI documents in Denmark and France respectively. From the UK, speakers will be Dr Andrew Bond of Geocentrix (technical author for the BS 8004 and BS 8002 revisions), Dr Caesar Merrifield of Coffey and Dr Devon Mothersille of Geoserve Global (technical authors of the BS 8081 revision). Moreover, Asim Gaba from Arup, will give an update on the current revisions of CIRIA Report C580 – Embedded retaining walls: guidance for economic design.

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For more info please visit http://www.workshopec7.com/ or contact Georgios Katsigiannis (georgios.katsigiannis@arup.com)