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UPCOMING STRUCTURAL, CDM 2015 AND PROFESSIONAL REVIEW COURSES

We are pleased to announce the following courses are coming up in the next few months. All are running in Chesterfield:
  • CDM 2015 – One Year On, half day course on 18 April 2016 costing £125 + VAT per delegate
  • The ICE Professional Review – Overview & Preparation on 25 April 2016, costing £220 + VAT per delegate
  • REVISED DATE: Our 2 day course Design of Structural Concrete to Eurocode 2 is now being held on 19 & 20 May 2016 at a cost of £395 + VAT per delegate
Discounts are available for group bookings or delegates attending more than one course. Please call or email us to reserve your place on a course. More courses are available – see here for our 2016 calendar of public courses or here for our full list of courses including those available on a bespoke basis too.

GEOTECHNICAL COURSES FEBRUARY TO APRIL 2016

We are pleased to announce the following geotechnical courses are coming up in the next few months. All are running in Chesterfield unless indicated below:
  • LAST CALL: Geotechnical Design to Eurocode 7, a 2 day course on 22 and 23 February 2016, costing £395 + VAT per delegate
  • BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND… Mentoring for Civil Engineers on Engineering Geology (1.5 days equivalent) on 2 March 2016, costing £295 + VAT per delegate
  • Slope Stability – Principles & Practice on 10 March 2016, costing £220 + VAT per delegate (running in Chesterfield, and possibly in London on a later date TBC)
  • Earthworks – Principles & Practice on 14 April 2016, costing £220 + VAT per delegate
Discounts are available for group bookings or delegates attending more than one course. Please call or email us to reserve your place on a course. More geotechnical courses are available – see here for our 2016 calendar of public courses or here for our full list of courses including those available on a bespoke basis too.

LAST CALL: EC7 DESIGN COURSE, FEBRUARY 2016

If you missed the earlier publicity we are pleased to advise that we still have a few places available on a 2 day course entitled “Geotechnical Design to Eurocode 7”. The course is running on 22 and 23 February 2016 in Chesterfield and costs just 395 + VAT per delegate. Please call or email us to reserve your place on a course.  Discounts are available for group bookings or delegates attending more than one course. More geotechnical courses are available – see here for our 2016 calendar of public courses or here for our full list of courses including those available on a bespoke basis too.

GEOTECHNICAL DESIGN TO EC7

The next geotechnical course we are running in Chesterfield on 22 and 23 February 2016 is a 2 day course entitled “Geotechnical Design to Eurocode 7”. Costing just £395 + VAT per delegate, the course will provide delegates with the opportunity to learn and practice how to apply EC7 in design. The course will begin with an overview of the Eurocodes and EC7 in particular, before looking at the basis of EC7, parametric assessment, and the implications of EC7 for site investigation. The main focus of the course will be on the Eurocodes and their use in design practice though, using shallow foundations, retaining walls and soil slopes as design topics to explore and illustrate the application of EC7. The course will be taught via a series of short lectures followed by discussions and tutorial-type sessions to reinforce the learning. Guided examples will be used to provide delegates with the opportunity to apply their learning. Discounts are available for group bookings or delegates attending more than one course. Please call or email us to reserve your place on a course.

GI DESIGN TO EC7…… AND THE NEW BS5930 & BS 8004!

EC7 has already impacted general design practice but its impact on ground investigation design has been less evident despite Eurocodes having been brought into Building Regulations in 2013. However the revisions in late 2015 of BS5930 and BS8004 mean that changes in current practice may now be required sooner rather than later. Our new half day course, Ground Investigation Design to EC7 – The Essentials, aims to address the likely impacts of these codes on ground investigation design. Taught against a background introduction to EC7, the key focus of the course will be on EC7 design requirements for GI’s, including a design exercise to examine the scale of changes that could be required. The course will introduce also changes to logging and reporting requirements to suit EC7. The course is running in Chesterfield on 18 January 2016 and costs only £125 + VAT per delegate. Discounts are available for group bookings or delegates attending more than one course. Please call or email us to reserve your place on a course.

FIRST GEOTECHNICAL COURSES IN 2016

We are pleased to announce our first three geotechnical courses in 2016 are as follows:
  • Ground Investigation Design to EC7 – The essentials, a half day course on 18 January 2016; this course costs only £125 + VAT per delegate
  • Retaining Walls – Principles and Practice on 25 January 2016, at £220 + VAT per delegate
  • Geotechnical Design to Eurocode 7, a 2 day course on 22 and 23 February 2016 costing £395 + VAT per delegate
All courses are running in Chesterfield. Discounts are available for group bookings or delegates attending more than one course. Please call or email us to reserve your place on a course. More geotechnical courses are available – see here for our 2016 calendar of public courses or here for our full list of courses including those available on a bespoke basis too.

PRICES HELD FOR 2016

We are pleased to announce that our Course Calendar for 2016 is now available for download from here or from the bottom left of our web site pages. You will be pleased to know that:
  • prices have been held at 2015 levels;
  • discounts are available for group bookings or delegates attending more than one course;
  • more open courses are being offered; and
  • a wider geographic spread of course venues is to be used.
We are still offering bespoke courses to suit your needs too, so if you wish to run a course just for your team then feel free to call us to discuss your needs. See our full list of courses for ideas. We look forward to seeing you in 2016.

EUROPEAN CONFERENCE PAPER

In September 2015 we had a technical paper published at the XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in Edinburgh. The paper is based on work undertaken in support of URS (now AECOM) in the design of a coastal protection scheme. Titled “The design of an anchored pile retaining structure to control landslide regression at Lyme Regis, UK”, the authors are Corrado Candian (formerly URS, now COWI), our Andy Goodwin, and Dimitri Daskalopoulos (URS).  We are very pleased to have worked with our partners on this paper and look forward to working with them further.

BESPOKE FOUNDATION ENGINEERING COURSE FOR THE COAL AUTHORITY

We are currently running a bespoke course on foundation engineering for The Coal Authority over two days. We worked with them to design a course that met their specific needs, was tailored for a small group, and which provided excellent value. It includes too information on the new British Standards for retaining walls and foundations. The course has received excellent feedback and it is now being developed further into a new course to be delivered from 2016 onwards. If you have even a small group of people needing training then contact us to discuss how we may be able to bespoke a course to suit your needs whilst making it cost-effective too.

BESPOKE COURSE SUCCESS

We recently ran a bespoke version of our ever-popular ‘Mentoring on Geotechnics for Engineering Geologists’ course for a major consultancy in one of their regional offices. What was different about that course? By working with them we found a way to deliver it cost-effectively for us both even though they only had two staff needing training. Quality was not compromised, and as ever feedback from the course was excellent. If you have just two or three people needing training then contact us to discuss how we may be able to bespoke a course to suit your needs whilst making it cost-effective too.