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Open Meeting March 26th 2020 – Bristol **postponed**

Update 19/3/20 – Due to the current COVID-19 situation this meeting has been postponed until further notice.               .

Arup Bristol Office, 63 St. Thomas Street, Bristol, BS1 6JZ

We are very happy to be visiting Bristol for the first time for a regional open meeting of the Steel Piling Group. The meeting, on Thursday 26th March, is free and open to members, guests and the industry. Presentations will be given from industry leaders and experts and there are also opportunities to network with the committee and the steel piling industry. Recent projects, materials and methodologies from the steel piling industry will showcase advances in steel piling solutions.

Registration is required for catering

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Presentations include :

• Dynamic response of piling equipment
  Mike Kightley, Director, Pile Analysis Limited
• Dam embankment stabilisation
  Andrew Cotton, Managing Director, Sheet Piling UK
• Efficiencies and Benefits from Sheet Piling
  Tarek Sadek, Associate,  Arup
• Tilbury 2 Project
  Fraser Dick, Associate, Doran Consulting

Further presentations to be advised.

Provisional Timings :

• Presentations start 10:30 and finish approximately 15:10
• SPG Committee meeting 15:30 – 16:45
• Eurocode mirror group meeting  16:45 – 17:45

To reserve a place at this event please click here or email secretary@steelpilinggroup.org

Event November 7th 2019

Venue – Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Westminster, London, SW1H 9JJ

This year our main theme is ‘Innovative steel piling solutions’ and mirrors the theme of the parallel UK Steel Construction Day. The seminars will explore how steel solutions can be used to build with improved speed, quality, safety, predictability, and sustainability.

This event will also provide an opportunity to hear the perspective of the Client/Developer as well as from leading industrial professionals and researchers.  Furthermore, there is the opportunity to hear the latest updates in codes and standards from those involved in their development.

Presentations

• Development of a novel cushion block for hydraulic piling hammers, Jakub Malinowski, Researcher, University of Southampton

• New development, patented hammer drive system, David Brown, Dawson Construction

• Seismic behaviour of steel sheet pile retaining walls: from experimental evidence to design practice, Riccardo Conti, Universita Niccolo Cusano  /Cambridge

•  A Sub-contractors view: Steel; Sheet Piling in urban areas, Miles Fenton, Fussey Piling Limited

•  Metagenomics and Physicochemistry of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion, Dr Heidi Burgess, Brighton University

•  Development of the Second generation of Eurocode 3- Part 5, the main challenges, Cecile Prum, ArcelorMittal / Convenor EN1993

•  A Client’s Perspective, Brian Rousell, Director of Engineering, Shoreham Port Authority

•  An update on the Developers Guide, Mathew Howells, Tony Gee

•  Case Study: Boston Barrier, Myles Bethell, Senior Design Engineer, BAM Nuttall

To reserve a place at this event please click here.

Steel Piling Group – News

The Steel Piling Group welcome Cleveland Steel & Tubes Ltd as a new sponsor. Established in 1974 Cleveland Steel and Tubes are the UK’s largest steel tube stockholder with over 70,000 tonnes of tubes in a wide variety of diameters & wall thicknesses, all held at their 100 acre site in North Yorkshire, UK. Trading for over 45 years Cleveland Steel & Tubes have become a leading supplier to the piling industry of tubulars and fabricated tubular products, more information can be seen here.

Steel Piling Group – News

The Steel Piling Group welcome Piletec as a new sponsor. Piletec, part of the Vp Groundforce group, is a specialist supplier of piling equipment offering a comprehensive range of equipment for driving, extraction and foundation preparation projects. Piletec has many years of experience within the industry offering fully trained service engineers and technical support by qualified engineers. More information can be seen here.

Steel Piling Group – Open Meeting

Steel Piling Group – News