• Overview of cut & natural slope problems, issues, statistics, common slope protection & stabilization methods, design standard/criteria/principle/concept, etc.
• Common methods of slope protection: applications & limitations
• Soil nailing & guniting: brief history, design concept/principles, specification, applications & limitations.
• Design methods: design basis & models, design parameter selection & basis. Methods to estimate the required nail length nail head design, facing design, grout mix design, etc.
• Scope of design: internal & external stability & FOS against sliding, overturning, bearing, local & global stability.
• Common scope & basis for QC & design validation. Mitigations against what can go wrong at site, etc.

• Soil nail design & construction checklists.
• Works specification with particular reference to method statement, technical requirements for material, equipment, scope of design validation & QC for drilling, reinforcement protection & inserting, grouting, guniting, etc.
• Three case histories of design including estimation of geotechnical & structural capacity of soil nails based on SI result given, scope of design validation, construction details
•Acceptance criteria of QC tests/measurements/observations, etc.

• Soil nailing pull-out test: planning, layout & procedure, result interpretations, case histories, etc.
• Case histories illustrating common pitfalls for pull-out tests & interpretations.
• Common scope of instrumentation: objectives, scope, methods & interpretation, etc.

• Design & construction case histories illustrating interpretation of SI results and selection of design parameters, analysis methods plus common types of site construction problems.
• Case histories illustrating causes for failures due to design and construction problems, etc. Details of remediation design plus technical justifications/calculations are included.