During its most recent meeting the Board of Directors of the UBAtc approved a modified version of the UBAtc general regulation for approval and certification.
The document applies since 1 July 2022 and has been developed primarily with the aim of having an English version, in addition to the already existing Dutch and French version.
At this occasion, most provisions with regards to the European Technical Approvals and the transitional arrangements have been withdrawn.
The ATG-M and the possibility to have German versions of the approvals have been introduced and references have been updated.
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Pile and micropile design
Recently, a number of important changes have taken place with regard to the design of piles and micropiles in Belgium.
A revision of the national annex of the Eurocode 7 was published, namely NBN EN 1997-1 ANB: 2022, which in turn refers to BBRI Report 20 for the design of piles and micropiles.
In BBRI Report 20, installation factors, model factors and partial safety measures are proposed for the various pile (sub)categories. No differentiation has been made in all these design factors, in contrast to previous versions (especially BBRI Reports 12 and 19).
12/07/2022
