This guide sets out the background and provides guidance on the key issues for foundation reuse. The content addresses the practical and technical problems of reusing foundations and suggests strategies for reducing risks and maintaining best practice. It is aimed at developers, funders and tech....

This is a shorter description of the full-scale investigation carried out to study the vortex-induced motion of circular steel piles in today flow using a specially constructed full-scale rig which was built at Immingham. the test rig.

This book provides comprehensive best practice guidance on the maintenance of old waterfront walls, particularly gravity walls constructed with stone masonry, brick blocks or mass concrete.

The book aims to provide and explainbest practice, offer guidance for general application and give a source of information relevant to iron and steel bridges.It is aimed to meet the requirements of those with a general knowledge of bridge engineering and asset management and who need further inf....

Management of concrete structures requires an understanding of the deterioration processes involved and the rate at which they proceed.Intelligent monitoring is automated monitoring which explicitly provides information on current condition and deterioration rates to assist in predicting the rem....

This guidance contains details of what is consideredbest practice and has been developed to assist designers to enhance user experience and minimise risk of crowd accidents within their design.

Health and safety has always been important in the construction industry, which suffers from a higher incidence rate of death, injuries and ill-health compared with other sectors. In recent decades there has been a concerted and increasingly successful effort to improve performance, following le....

This publication is the main output from CIRIA project RP913. Flood resilience and resistance for critical infrastructure provides an overview of the regulatory framework and outlines the main issues now faced by the industry in this area.

This report begins with a statement of the concepts and a review of design practice. Discussion on previous laboratory and field work relevant to the design practice is also included. This is followed by a brief description of the extensive laboratory studies undertaken for the project. The la....

We meet Steve, a senior leader in a construction business as he receives news of yet another failed tender bid. Licking his wounds, and pondering what he can do differently next time, he comes across a comparative review of two projects recently completed by his company. The two schemes were sim....

Following the high profile gas explosions at Loscoe and Abbeystead during the 1980s, a number of reports were published in the 1990s on the measurement of ground gases, the assessment of risk such gases may present along with the measures that can be employed to mitigate these risks. More recent....

The Easy access environmental management package has been developed to help construction companies understand and implement an effective environmental management system in line with best practice standards.

Sustainable drainage systems, or SuDS, are a more natural approach to managing rainfall where it falls. They are an important part of delivering sustainable communities and development, and should be considered together with established requirements and best practice guidelinesfor public open sp....

This guide provides the development sector with a unified accessible source of independent and practical advice and information regarding archaeology, drawing on the array of existing guidance. It is illustrated by a series of case studies showingbest practice, and a few cautionary examples of l....

Part I of this Technical Note gives details of a study carried out to compare the design of waterfront earth-retaining structures by British and foreign codes of best practice. The details of, and differences between the various codes considered are discussed, and the results of calculations mad....