Communicating the need for in-depth investigation to clients and the potential consequences of insufficient analysis

What level of detail should be demanded? How does this compare to what is being delivered?

Establishing an optimum level of investigation: avoiding both over-design and unforeseen complications

Ensuring best-fit design and technique selection

Pile load testing: just more G.I. or an optimization tool?

The benefits of of reducing project cost and risk by pile load testing

Developing an effective pile testing strategy to deliver maximum cost savings

Outlining changes in design, construction, testing and monitoring

Which clauses and procedures have been amended?

How are people responding?

Ensuring continuity in interpretation

Outlining the correlation between EU legislation and the growth in brownfield regeneration

Complying with Environment Agency regulations: understanding the onus for contractors

Exploring displacement piling options to suit varying ground conditions

Identifying the advantages and scope for displacement piling beyond contaminated sites

How does the extraction and release of heat affect ground behaviour and loading capacity?

Existing systems and upcoming trends: what has been installed?

Establishing cost levels, payback periods and efficiency requirements

What kind of information should the industry be supplying to clients? What will drive uptake?

Understanding the interface between energy piles and the building

UK National Annex to EC7: outlining the significant changes to pile design by calculation

Optimising design through appropriate pile testing

What is driving clients’ decisions to reuse foundations?

Who assumes responsibility for loading and structural integrity?

What level of verification, testing and proof is required?

Compiling building records and documenting new piles to enable future reuse

Assessing the load bearing behaviour of piles and changes over time

Is modern design and changing loading patterns making reuse more difficult? How can the industry encourage architects to rethink load transferrals?

Typical characteristics of contemporary high-rise sites: deep excavations, existing foundations, city centre logistics, demanding programmes

Loading intensity: structural and geotechnical considerations, application of loading in relation to construction methods

Foundation construction options for retaining walls and bearing piles: which solutions are being used and why?

Establishing the most economical design for each project phase

Implementing a flexible, multi-faceted piling solution to cope with variable ground conditions

Retaining walls and piling to facilitate M25 and M1 extensions

Applying lessons learned from the M25 to future widening schemes

Outlining the project parameters and the chosen piling solutions

Accounting for challenging conditions: groundwater, restricted access and listed adjacent buildings

Outlining the project scope and the combination of piling techniques delivered

Installing secant walls for water-tightness and soil retention

Four storeys below: the specific challenges of constructing a 12m basement in central Manchester

Combining contiguous and secant CFA bored pile walls with internal propping to limit wall deflection

Managing difficult inner city site logistics and designing around our industrial heritage

Utilisation of top down construction techniques to provide temporary storage and access ahead of the permanent works