• Pile classification (BS 8004). Types of displacement piles & installation methods for civil engineering projects: design standard/criteria, design principles/concepts, applications & limitations.
• Detail behavior of displacement in clay, sand and rock. Analysis models.
• Critical subsoil parameters & information required for displacement pile design: how to plan scope of SI to ensure adequate & reliable SI information & parameters are procured as per BEM Circular No. 4/2005 requirements. How to prepare SI interpretative report, etc.
• Geotechnical design: How to select appropriate parameters from SI results for analysis, design and estimation of pile capacity and deformation. How to design & prepare adequate scope of QC & design validation. Instrumentation, etc.
• Structural design: MS 1314 requirements for concrete piles & minimum structural requirements for pile body, joints and shoes. Steel and timber pile requirements. How to estimate permissible and installation stresses for precast RC piles, prestressed concrete piles, steel piles and timber piles, etc. QC requirements.
• Design & construction checklists

• Design case histories for building foundations including cases in cut ground, filled ground, soft ground & difficult site/slope conditions, etc.
• Project brief, site conditions/constraints, SI results, SI interpretation
• Foundation type selection based on SI result, loading & site/environment, etc.
• Technical justifications (capacity & settlement estimation methods).
• Design validation scheme, instrumentation, etc
• Mitigations against what can go wrong.

• Defective design case histories of driven concrete piles with respective to MS 1314 requirements, BS 8004 requirements, inadequate and/or unreliable SI, etc. Proposals of remediations with necessary justifications, etc., are included.
• Defective design case histories of driven steel piles with respective to BS 8004 requirements, inadequate and/or unreliable SI, etc. Proposals of remediation with necessary justifications, etc.

• Detail case histories of underpinning design for distressed building foundations using displacement piles. Desk study to assess info available/required and determine causes and hypothesis of distress. Scope of SI and analysis required to verify the hypothesis. Recommendations & proposals of remediations including pile design plus necessary justifications and design validation, monitoring, etc.