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.
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.
The following changes to British Standards commonly used by geotechnical and structural engineers have been published:
Amendment to BS EN 1991-1-1: 2003 + A1: 2015. Eurocode 1. Actions on structures. General actions. Snow loads.
Amendment to BS EN 1993-1-4: 2006 + A1: 2015. Eurocode 3. Design of steel structures. General rules. Supplementary rules for stainless steels.
PD 6688-1-4: 2015. Background information to the National Annex to BS EN 1991-1-4 and additional guidance (supersedes PD 6688-1-4: 2009)
In addition the following standards have been confirmed as being of continued currency:
BS EN ISO 12236:2006. Geosynthetics. Static puncture test (CBR test).
BS EN ISO 13431:1999. Geotextiles and geotextiles related products. Determination of tensile creep and creep rupture behaviour.
BS EN ISO 13433:2006. Geosynthetics. Dynamic perforation test (cone drop test).
Finally, you may be interested to know that the following BS implementation of ISO text has been made without any change to the international standard:
BS ISO 18325:2015. Geosynthetics. Test method for the determination of water discharge capacity for prefabricated vertical drains.
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.
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.
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.
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.
