AM05 EC7 NICOLAS DENIES

DEVELOPMENT OF 2nd GENERATION OF EUROCODE 7 Since 2015 project teams and taskgroups of CEN/Technical Committee 250 “Structural Eurocodes” / Sub-Committee 7 “Geotechnical design” have been involved in developing a 2nd Generation Eurocode 7. In 2024 the three parts of Eurocode 7 went for Formal Vote, terminating this intensive process. Now is the time for the National committees to draft their National Annexes, which should be ready by 2027. Many new topics have now been included in Eurocode 7: ground model, groundwater issues, rock engineering, pile groups and rafts, reinforced fill structures, soil nails, rock bolts and ground improvement. In the past 4 years, Taskgroups in SC7 have developed guidelines for the application of the new Eurocode and set up examples for testing the new code