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Eurocodes – Opportunities for the Construction Industry

Professor Steve DentonDirector of Bridge and Structural Engineering, Parsons BrinckerhoffVisiting Professor, Bath University

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What are your expectation of other market sectors?

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EUROCODESBackground and Applications Opportunities for the Construction Industry

What are your expectation of other market sectors?

Improving ProductsImproving ServicesBetter Value

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Our Opportunity

Eurocodes publishedUnprecedented collaborative effortExciting time of change

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Personal Perspective

European engineer, working for a global companyConsultant, with strong academic linksActive in developing Eurocodes implementation strategiesSpecialist in Bridges; Broad Eurocode knowledge

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Parsons Brinckerhoff

New YorkCorp. HQ

BirminghamBristolCardiffChesterDerbyDevonExeterGlasgow

GodalmingEssexW. YorkshireLondonManchesterNewcastle upon TyneTaunton

Buenos AiresAl KhobarAbu DhabiAmmanBahrainKuwait Doha Dubai

Cairo

MadridBarcelona

Johannesburg

Istanbul

Dublin WarsawBrussels

Kuala LumpurSingapore

Jakarta

Bangkok

New Delhi

MelbourneAdelaide

Perth

ChristchurchWellingtonAuckland

BrisbaneSingletonSydneyNewcastle

ManilaTaipei

BeijingGuangzhou

ShanghaiShenzhen

Hong KongMacau

TokyoSeoul

Baden

Panama

Bulgaria

Cala Bar, Nigeria

New YorkCorp. HQ

BirminghamBristolCardiffChesterDerbyDevonExeterGlasgow

GodalmingEssexW. YorkshireLondonManchesterNewcastle upon TyneTaunton

BirminghamBristolCardiffChesterDerbyDevonExeterGlasgow

GodalmingEssexW. YorkshireLondonManchesterNewcastle upon TyneTaunton

Buenos AiresAl KhobarAbu DhabiAmmanBahrainKuwait Doha Dubai

Cairo

MadridBarcelona

Johannesburg

Istanbul

Dublin WarsawBrussels

Kuala LumpurSingapore

Jakarta

Bangkok

New Delhi

MelbourneAdelaide

Perth

ChristchurchWellingtonAuckland

BrisbaneSingletonSydneyNewcastle

ManilaTaipei

BeijingGuangzhou

ShanghaiShenzhen

Hong KongMacau

TokyoSeoul

Baden

Panama

Bulgaria

Cala Bar, Nigeria

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EUROCODESBackground and Applications Opportunities for the Construction Industry

Agenda

Recognising the OpportunitiesRealising the BenefitsConclusions

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EUROCODESBackground and Applications Opportunities for the Construction Industry

Agenda

Recognising the OpportunitiesRealising the BenefitsConclusions

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EUROCODESBackground and Applications Opportunities for the Construction Industry

Recognising the Opportunities

Best ValueBest PracticesInnovationGlobal Context

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Best Value

Removal of barriers to trade of products and services; harmonisation of products Single suite of StandardsCommon understanding and vocabulary Common design criteriaShared investment in software and design-aid development Latest materials technologiesCombined effort to resolve issues, and embrace improvement opportunities

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Best Practices

Eurocodes based on most up to date research; at the forefront of technologyRational and consistent frameworkDemand understanding from designersProvide flexibility and opportunity to apply advanced methodsChallenge past thinking; revisit assumptionsAlignment of structural and geotechnical design

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Innovation

Promote understanding and knowledge developmentEnhance scope for innovation; choices offered to designersGreater effectiveness of R&D investmentDiversity of technical solutions available; use of testing, performance evidence and probabilistic methods

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“I feel about globalisation a lot like I feel about the dawn. Generally speaking, I think it is a good thing that the sun comes up each morning…but even if I didn’t much care for the dawn there isn’t much I could do about it”

Thomas Friedman

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Global Context

Which design standards will be used around the world in the future?An opportunity and a risk

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EUROCODESBackground and Applications Opportunities for the Construction Industry

Agenda

Recognising the OpportunitiesRealising the BenefitsConclusions

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EUROCODESBackground and Applications Opportunities for the Construction Industry

Realising the Benefits

DesignersConstruction clients

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Strategic Implementation

Establishurgency

Defineobjectives

Establishteam

Gatherdata

Plan forimplementation

Implementation Review

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EUROCODESBackground and Applications Opportunities for the Construction Industry

Strategic Implementation

Establishurgency

Defineobjectives

Establishteam

Gatherdata

Plan forimplementation

Implementation Review

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“The implementation of the structural eurocodes … is the biggest change to codified structural design ever experienced in the UK”

IStructE report to UK Government

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“If you don’t like change,

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“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less”

Gen Eric Shinseki

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EUROCODESBackground and Applications Opportunities for the Construction Industry

Strategic Implementation

Establishurgency

Defineobjectives

Establishteam

Gatherdata

Plan forimplementation

Implementation Review

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EUROCODESBackground and Applications Opportunities for the Construction Industry

“Begin with the end in mind”

Steven Covey

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EUROCODESBackground and Applications Opportunities for the Construction Industry

Strategic Implementation

Establishurgency

Defineobjectives

Establishteam

Gatherdata

Plan forimplementation

Implementation Review

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Challenges for Designers

Large number of unfamiliar documentsSignificant learning curveNew terminology and notationCultural change; close to first principlesSoftware, tools and processes will have to change

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Client Context

Public or private clientsClient versus regulatory driversContractorsChange and risk management

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EUROCODESBackground and Applications Opportunities for the Construction Industry

Strategic Implementation

Establishurgency

Defineobjectives

Establishteam

Gatherdata

Plan forimplementation

Implementation Review

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Agenda

Recognising the OpportunitiesRealising the BenefitsConclusions

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EUROCODESBackground and Applications Opportunities for the Construction Industry

Conclusions

Exceptional achievementExciting time of changeEmbrace opportunities positivelyImplement strategically to realise the benefits

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EUROCODESBackground and Applications

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EUROCODESBackground and Applications

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Acknowledgements

Numerous leading engineers from UK kindly shared thoughts and views to assist in the development of this presentation

Highways AgencyRailway Safety and Standards BoardArupAtkinsBRE

Steel Construction InstituteConcrete CentreFlint and NeilGeocentrixParsons Brinckerhoff