John Powell in Leuven, Belgium

Geolabs Technical Director John Powell last week attended the meeting of SC7 Working Groups in Leuven, Belgium looking at the future revision of EN1997 to be published in 2020. The future structure and content of the next version of the documents were discussed. The new versions will hopefully be clearer and simpler to use. Several additions will be made including a more detailed treatment of rocks.

He also attended a very popular ETC3 symposium on ‘Design of Piles in Europe: How did Eurocode 7 change daily practice?’ giving the General report on ‘Quality, monitoring and testing’. The European Piling industry can be seen to have many common features but national preferences still influence many aspects of the piling industry. Read more at http://www.etc3.be/symposium2016