IGS UK: 2025 BGA - Reinforcing the second-generation Eurocode 7

Overview

This is a joint meeting of the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) and the UK Chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS).

The second-generation Eurocode 7 brings significant changes to geotechnical design practice, not least in its extension to cover reinforced fill and soil nailed structures, ground improvement, rock bolt design, and groundwater control systems.

As Chair of the Eurocode 7 committee from 2010-19, Andrew Bond played a key role in defining the direction and magnitude of changes made in the new Eurocode 7. He was also intimately involved in the extension of the head Eurocode, EN 1990, to cover the basis of geotechnical as well as structural design.

The lecture will focus on the key changes that civil, structure, and geotechnical engineers (plus engineering geologists) should know about, with particular focus on the design of reinforced fill and soil nailed structures.

Want to know what Eurocode 7’s Design Approaches have been replaced with? Want to know why Eurocode 7 Part 2 now deals with ground properties and not ground investigation and testing, per se? Want to know when you must switch to the second-generation Eurocodes? All will be explained in this lecture.

Recording can be found at:

Reinforcing the second-generation Eurocode 7 | Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)