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Subsoil Investigation & Foundation Selection
What a soil investigation tells you, how to read the report, and how it decides between shallow foundations, piles and ground improvement.
Notify me when it opensAimed at engineers, builders and property owners who want to understand the part of a project that is buried and therefore easy to ignore. No heavy mathematics — the focus is on reading evidence and making sound decisions.
The syllabus on this page is a draft and will be finalised before registration opens.
What you will be able to do
- Understand what a soil investigation does and does not tell you
- Read a soil report and pull out the numbers that matter
- Judge which foundation type suits a given site
- Ask better questions of your soil investigator and designer
Curriculum
Draft syllabus — final version before registration
- M01 Why the ground comes first — soils of Bangladesh in brief
- M02 Boring, sampling and the standard penetration test
- M03 Laboratory tests and what each result means
- M04 Reading a soil report and finding the safe bearing capacity
- M05 Choosing between footings, rafts and piles
- M06 When ground improvement is the cheaper answer
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