During its meeting in June 2018, the UBAtc’s Board of directors agreed that Jef Lembrechts, VCB, is the new President of the organisation. Jef Lembrecht was, until his retirement, delegated administrator or the contractor Vanhout. UBAtc thanked Jan Coumans for having been President for many years.
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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
