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.
We are pleased to announce that our Course Calendar for 2016 is now available for download from hereor 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.
We have just two more geotechnical courses coming up in 2015, as follows:
NEW DATE… Slope Stability Design to EC7 on 26 November 2015
Foundations and Building Settlement – Principles and Practice on 7 December 2015
Each course is running in Chesterfield and costs just £220 + VAT per delegate for full day courses. Discounts are available for group bookings or delegates attending more than one course. Please call us to reserve your place on a course.
The BSI have announced changes to a number of geotechnical engineering related standards in recent months. Though by no means exhaustive the list of changes affecting this sector includes:
BS 8002:2015 Code of practice for earth retaining structures.
BS 8004:2015 Code of practice for foundations.
BS 5930:2015 Code of practice for ground investigations.
BS 8081:2015 Code of practice for grouted anchors.
BS EN 1536:2010 Amendment 1, Execution of special geotechnical work. Bored piles.
BS EN 1538:2010 Amendment 1, Execution of special geotechnical work. Diaphragm walls.
BS EN 1992-1-1:2004 Amendment 1, Eurocode 2. Design of concrete structures.
BS EN 1993-1-1:2005 Amendment 1, Eurocode 3. Design of steel structures.
BS EN ISO 17628:2015 Geotechnical investigation and testing. Geothermal testing.
BS EN ISO 25619-2:2015 Geosynthetics. Determination of compression behaviour.
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.
We are running a bespoke course on geotechnics for a site investigation company in the UK. The aim was to broaden the existing skills profile of their staff in the design of shallow foundations, piled foundations, retaining walls, and slope stability. We worked with them to design a course that met their specific needs and could be delivered in half day sessions over several months to allow the skills to be developed progressively.
We would be delighted to work with you or your company to deliver a similar course or any other bespoke training you need to address your business needs. We are skilled at helping you identify the core areas to be developed, and at designing a course that addresses those areas through a combination of taught material and worked exercises. If interested please contact our Andy Goodwin to discuss how we may be able to bespoke a cost-effective course to meet your needs.
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.
Important updates to British Standards commonly used by geotechnical and structural engineers have been published:
BS 8002: 2015 Code of practice for earth retaining structures. This revised and updated standard conforms to the latest EN and EN ISO standards and provides recommendations for the design, construction, monitoring, and maintenance of earth retaining structures. It provides additional information to the recommendations in EC7 for surcharges, unplanned excavations and prop loads, and provides detailed recommendations for the content of Geotechnical Feedback Reports in accordance with EC7.
BS 8004: Code of practice for foundations. Providing recommendations for the design of both shallow and deep foundations to meet the latest EN and EN ISO standards, the new standard provides additional information to EC7 recommendations for spread foundations, provides recommendations for the design of piles that reflect modern practice, and and provides detailed recommendations for the content of Geotechnical Feedback Reports.
All related courses offered in 2016 will make reference to the new standards and provide guidance on their use in practice. Please contact us for the details of the revised course details.
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.
We are pleased to confirm that Surepath Training is now registered to deliver training for the LEP skills service.
Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has launched a service that provides skills support to small and medium sized businesses. The LEP skills service helps businesses to identify their skills needs based on their business growth objectives and then find the right training solution. Small and medium sized business based in the Leeds City Region that have a budget to put towards training could be eligible for funding of between £500 and £50,000. To find out more about the LEP skills service and apply, visit: www.the-lep.com/skillsservice
The LEP skills service will provide funding to those businesses that are poised for growth and will support collaborative proposals too. A grant will only be granted if an employer cash contribution is provided. The contribution must be a least equal to the level of grant. The minimum amount of grant that a business can apply for is £1,000, unless the business is a micro SME (less than 10 employers and has a turnover of less than 2 million EUR). The maximum grant amount that any one business can apply for is £50,000, cumulatively (multiple applications are allowed as long as the maximum grant amount is not exceeded).
Please note that all skills service applications are subject to approval panels and are assessed on a case by case basis.
To find out more about the above funding for training courses, please contact Andy Goodwin at Surepath Training, on 01246 807808. Alternatively contact us via the contact page on the web site.
