Civil Engineering Association

A Designers’ Simple Guide to BS EN 1997

Aims of the Guide
The Guide seeks to:
a) give readers a simple explanation of the new suite9 of complementary geotechnical design, construction, investigation and testing documents that will largely replace the suite of national BSI codes and standards over the next few years10;
b) clarify the meanings of new terminology, to explain design calculations and methods that are not covered explicitly in current Codes, to present easy-to-understand explanations of how the new methods work and to do this using simple design examples.
c) explain how to implement the new suite of documents in order to comply with the requirements of the Building Regulations.
What the Guide contains.
This Designers’ Guide contains the following additional Sections:
2. A brief overview of BS EN 1997-1 - Geotechnical design, general rules.
3. Obtaining geotechnical design parameters.
4. Design calculations for foundations and retaining structures.
5. Other geotechnical design and construction matters.
6. European geotechnical construction standards
7. How the new geotechnical Codes and Standards will be applied and may impact on UK practices.
8. References and Bibliography.
9. Appendices.