Decoding the Eurocodes

April 2010: the death of British Standards?

I have agreed to give a talk on the status of British Standards following the 'official' introduction of the Eurocodes in April 2010, to both the IStructE Peterborough section (in Peterborough on Thursday 15th October) and to the North East Geotechnical Society (in Newcastle on Tuesday 20th October).

Impact of Eurocode 7 on basement design

Ground Engineering's one-day conference on 'Deep Basements and Underground Structures' was held yesterday in London EC1. The conference was very well attended, with over 200 delegates present.

My talk, entitled 'Impact of Eurocode 7 on basement design', is now available as a free download by clicking on the following link:

Download impact_of_eurocode_7_on_basement_design.pdf

Enjoy!

South African engineers step up Eurocode familiarisation

There is a news article on the Eurocodes Expert website about the promotion of the Eurocodes in South Africa. You can read the article here.

Impact of Eurocode 7 on basement design

Ground Engineering is hosting a one-day conference on 'Deep Basements and Underground Structures' at Inmarsat, London EC1, on Thursday 25th September 2008. Speakers include Hugh St John (GCG), Julian Crawley (Cementation), Duncan Nicholson (Arup), Richard Newman (Tony Gee), and Richard Holmes (Van Elle).

I will be giving a talk on entitled 'Impact of Eurocode 7 on basement design'. Details to follow.

Visit the conference websiter at www.gebasements.co.uk

Steel piling - the future

I will be giving a talk entitled 'Impact of Eurocode 7 on steel piles' at this week's Steel Piling Group one-day seminar 'Steel Piling - The Future', to be held at BRE on Thursday 19th June.

You can download my presentation from here (1.06 MB PDF).

Further details about the Steel Piling Group seminar can be found at the Steel Piling Group website.

Slope design to Eurocode 7

Andrew Harris's presentation on 'Eurocode 7 and slope design' is available for download from here. This talk was given at Ground Engineering's one-day conference 'Engineering Sustainable Slopes' held at Olympia on 10th June.

Teaching the teachers

The European Commission and the Joint Research Centre is running a three day workshop entitled 'Eurocodes - background and applications' in Brussels on 18th-20th February 2008. This is an opportunity for people from around Europe to learn more about the background to the Eurocodes and their implementation in Member States.

I will be attending the presentations on EN 1990 (Day 1), EN 1991 (Day 2), and EN 1997 (Day 3). Report to follow.

To test or not to test? - that is the (design) question

I will be giving a talk entitled 'To test or not to test? - that is the (design) question' at Ground Engineering's Piling and Foundatiosn Conference at Earl's Court Conference Centre on 14th February 2008. The talk covers the changes to pile design that will follow from the introduction of Eurocode 7 into UK practice and - in particular - the amendments to the Eurocode approach that the UK National Annex implies.

Download a copy of my talk in PDF format by clicking here

Countries gear up for Eurocode 7

Courses, seminars, and lectures on Eurocode 7 are beginning to spring up across Europe:

• Austria Implementation of EUROCODE 7-1 in Austria
• Cyprus: EN 1997 (EC7): Geotechnical Design
• France: Applications de l’Eurocode 7
• United Kingdom: Eurocode 7: geotechnical design of foundations to EC7

You can keep an eye on what is coming up at the website of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC). Click here to visit the JRC's events page.

Evaluation of Eurocode 7

Following the NCE Conference yesterday, Paul Markham of Interserve Project Services has asked where he can get the worked examples that I referred to in my talk (The devil is in the detail - see yesterday's blog entry). The examples I mentioned were from the International Workshop on the Evaluation of Eurocode 7, held in Dublin in 2005.

Proceedings from the workshop have been put together by Trevor Orr of Trinity College, Dublin and can be ordered via this link. I hope this helps anyone else wanting to follow up on the subject.