Course Outline.

This one day geotechnical training course is developed by the UK's leading Soil and Rock Description expert, Professor David Norbury, and will bring delegates up to speed on the changes within the Standards and provide a detailed approach to rock description practices and techniques.

The British Standards (Codes) under which investigations in the UK have been carried out continue to incorporate and mirror the European Standards. UK practice has changed to meet these new requirements and practitioners will learn about them and how to follow compliant rock logging techniques within this course.

The workshop will comprise a series of lectures on the current Standards, logging and descriptive processes followed by practical sessions describing rock samples, cores and compiling mechanical logs of rock core.

Summary.

At the end of the course the delegates should be able to:

• Understand the requirements of the British Standards

• Carry out a compliant and consistent description of rocks

• Carry out a compliant and consistent description of soils

• Understand the effect of the drilling process on sample quality

• Produce a mechanical log of rock core

• Appreciate the use of in situ tests as an aid to rock description