This blog post hopes to dig down to the nature of partial factors.

There are a few quick tips that I have learned over the years and I would like to share them.

this one goes on further to touch on the stiffness of concrete and the simplified relationships for cross-sectional design.

This blog post aims to have a step-by-step anatomy of the stress-strain curve of concrete and clarify every detail and assumption

This blog explains the shear behaviour of soil from a whole new angle for you to better understand the underlying reasons

This blog post kicks off the series with one of the prettiest types of ground – the chalk.

This blog post explains the difference that design life makes to the structure

On many occasions, an opening needs to be created in a structure. This could be a tunnel from a station box, a cross passage tunnel from...

This blog is inspired by this article “Simulating composite behaviour in SCL tunnels with sprayed waterproofing membrane interface: A...

I have planned a series of blogs on the topic of shear. This is the first of the series, and it introduces the not-so-commonly known...

All concrete naturally cracks, regardless of whether it is desirable or not, and regardless of measures that you may choose to adopt, in...

As part of serviceability limit state, cracks within reinforced concrete structural elements are typically required to be controlled down...

As of 12th December 2018, CIRIA guide C766 has come on live. As one of its first practical users, I posted a previous blog post had a...

Year 2018 has been the ‘Year of Delays’ for all major projects that have something to do with tunnelling. With every single project one...

Architects hate columns. Columns are ugly, block views, and are the biggest enemies of architectural elegance. When columns appear in...

A brief preview of CIRIA C766 which has replaced C660

Sprayed concrete has wide-spread use in temporary surface stabilisation and sometimes also used as permanent works. Its field of...

It is not until I have had many years of practical experience, did I start to realise why some engineering concepts taught in classes are...

If normal concrete is like a stew, then self-compacting concrete is like a soup. I have some first-hand experience of using...

Major projects are notorious for their cost overrun, delays in completion and attachment to politics. Examples in the metros sector are...