Execution of special geotechnical work — Ground …

1 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||BRITISH STANDARDBS EN1537:2000 The European Standard EN 1537:1999 has the status of aBritish StandardICS COPYING WITHOUT BSI PERMISSION EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY COPYRIGHT LAWE xecution of specialgeotechnicalwork British Standard, havingbeen prepared under thedirection of the SectorCommittee Buiding and CivilEngineering, was published underthe authority of the StandardsCommittee and comes into effecton 15 April 2000 BSI 04-2000 ISBN 0 58034500 9BS EN 1537:2000 Amendmentsissued since publicationAmd. British Standard is the official English language version of EN 1537:1999.

2 Itsupersedes those parts of BS 8081:1989 that deal with the construction (' Execution ')of Ground anchorages; these parts will therefore be declared obsolescent harmonized European design of Ground anchorages will be dealt with byEN 1997-1. Until it is published, the design parts of BS 8081:1989 apply, whereafterBS 8081:1989 will be declared obsolescent on its UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical CommitteeB/526, Geotechnics, which has the responsibility to: aid enquirers to understand the text; present to the responsible European committee any enquiries on theinterpretation, or proposals for change, and keep the UK interests informed; monitor related international and European developments and promulgatethem in the list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request toits British Standards which implement international or European publicationsreferred to in this document may be found in the BSI Standards Catalogue under thesection entitled International Standards Correspondence Index , or by using the Find facility of the BSI Standards Electronic British Standard does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of acontract.

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