British Geotechnical Association
The BGA is the UK's main association for geotechnical engineers, organising key events annually.
- Date
- 23 September 2025
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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.
International Geosynthetics Society UK
The International Geosynthetics Society is an engineering professional society focused on the field of geosynthetics.
Speaker
Dr Andrew Bond
Geocentrix Ltd
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Dr Andrew Bond
Andrew was chairman of CEN TC250/SC7 (the Eurocode 7 committee) from 2010 to 2019, during which time he led the development of the second-generation Eurocode 7. He was a member of the team that rewrote EN 1990 Basis of structural and geotechnical design member and directed the (six) teams that transformed Eurocode 7 from two to three parts: general rules, ground properties, and geotechnical structures.
In 2023, Andrew took over as chair of B/526, the BSI committee that looks after British Standards for geotechnics. He is leading the work preparing National Annexes for the second-generation Eurocode 7 and planning amendments and revisions to British Standards that will be affected by the new code.
Andrew is currently working on an update to the highly successful book Decoding Eurocode 7, published in 2008 to support the first-generation Eurocodes.
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