Ground Engineering News and features on all aspects of geotechnics, engineering geology and geo-environmental engineering Chris Oram, Roger Bullivant
Technical paper: Considerations on the design of steel helical piles – or “screw piles” – to BS 8004:2015
Technical papers
Cooling Prize paper: Ground movement due to shaft construction
Joseph Newhouse, Mott MacDonald (formerly Imperial College London)
Technical Paper: Slope stabilisation and erosion protection in a single operation
Eberhard Gröner and Armin Roduner, Geobrugg
Technical paper: Construction of a reinforced soil wall for a working platform for 1000t crane and TBM on the Elan Valley Aqueduct
Patricia Guerra-Escobar and Pablo Bernardini, Geosynthetics
Technical paper: Railway earthworks with particular emphasis on the behaviour of clay embankments in the South east.
G P Birch and E R Evans, Network Rail
Technical paper: Development of thermal steel sheet piles
Alex-Q Chen, Duncan Nicholson, Anton Pillai, Arup, and David Brown, Dawson Construction Plant
Cooling Prize Paper: The material point method in slope stability analysis
Francesc Mirada, Arup
Technical paper: Sulfur compounds in soils and rocks – avoiding pitfalls in terminology, test procedures and ground assessment
J M Reid, TRL; M A Czerewko, Aecom; I Longworth, BRE; and J C Cripps, University of Sheffield
Technical note: Definitive new guidance for asbestos in soil and construction and demolition materials
Alec Hales, Lucion Services
Technical paper: Challenging the perception of precast piles
S M Bayton, J A Black and C C Smith, University of Sheffield, B Handley and C Primett, Aarsleff Ground Engineering