Recent Advances in Deep Foundations

Aimed at the practising civil engineer, this book pulls together the key elements that make deep foundations possible, namely innovation in construction plant, design and construction methods. It provides useful practical guidance in dealing with some of the conundrums that face designers. There have been many technical advancements in construction plant in recent years, in response to the need to develop increasingly more difficult sites, to construct under conditions of extremely restricted working space, to build in inner city areas with minimum environmental intrusion and to go deeper into ever harder strata. The practical benefits of these recent developements are highlighted using international case histories.