A smiling Andy Goodwin and James Regan of GeoMatters (https://lnkd.in/gNS29hP) having finished their tour of the UK supporting the NHBC’s Building for Tomorrow 2017 events! It was a really well organised tour by the NHBC and their events team, so thanks to everyone there. It was great to speak to everyone on our travels too of course.
To complement our NHBC 2017 roadshow and the interest shown there, Surepath Training are running again their intensive half day course that aims to address the likely impact of EC7 on ground investigation design.
EC7 has been here for a decade now and its use in industry is becoming more widespread all the time. The 2015 update of the Code of Practice for Ground Investigations, BS5930, says GI’s ‘should’ follow the guidance in EC7 on GI quantum. This coupled with the adoption of EC7 in Building Regulations and NHBC standards means that GI design is potentially set for some significant changes.
The course will be taught against a background introduction to design practice to EC7, and the requirements for ground characterisation and parametric assessment in particular. The majority of the course will focus 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.
This course is running in Chesterfield on 4 May 2017. Please call or email us to reserve your place on this course, or to discuss running it bespoke for your company or team. Discounts are available for group bookings or delegates attending more than one course.
Surepath Training, our sister company, have several courses coming up in April that may be of interest. They include:
We are also repeating our half day course on GI design to EC7 in late April – date TBC.
Each course is 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.
Some images from the NHBC Building for Tomorrow” event for 2017, on which we have enjoyed supporting them over the last 4 weeks. We’ve been talking alongside James Regan of Geo-Matters (https://lnkd.in/gNS29hP) at many of the events.
We have been busy for the last 4 weeks delivering our part of the NHBC Building for Tomorrow 2017 roadshow! “Ground Investigation Good Practice” was the subject of our contribution. It has been great meeting so many people and cascading the news on the GI changes coming due to EC7 and BS5930:2015.
More news on this road trip to follow….
