Introduction

Basements provide an ideal opportunity for the better utilisation of building land general and can offer the improved use of sites with difficult ground condition. The Approved Document - Basements for Dwellings - has now been updated and the latest version was issued in 2005.

This one day course will cover design considerations, soil structure interaction, waterproofing, proprietary systems and design of concrete and masonry basements.

Course Content

• Basements in houses
• The approved document for basements
• Soil-structure interaction
• Waterproofing basements
• Proprietary systems for basement construction
• Design of reinforced concrete basements
• Design of plain concrete basements
• Design of reinforced masonry basements
• Design of plain masonry basements

Speaker/s

• Eur Ing Professor JOHN ROBERTS, Hon DSc, BSc(Eng), PhD, CEng, FIStructE, FICE, FBMS, FCMI, FRSA, MICT, Hon MIIE, Principal of the Technical Innovation Consultancy and Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering – Kingston University. A Civil Engineering and PHD graduate of London University he has also appointments as Mowlem Professor of Civil Engineering at Kingston University in 1988, for the Cement and Concrete Association, president of the British Masonry Society and the British Cement Association.

• ALAN TOVEY, CEng, FISTRuctE, ACIArb, MIFS, is principal of Tecnicom and Director of the Basement Information Centre. Widely experienced in industry having worked with the Concrete Sectin at British Railways Western Region, the CC, and the BCA, before setting up his own consultancy in 1993. Extensively experienced in Standards and Codes, he also undertakes expert witness work and technical development activities.

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