Redevelopment and regeneration of urban areas have left a legacy of old foundations, congested underground space and archaeological artefacts. This legacy compromises new developments and the project 'Reuse of Foundations for Urban Sites' (RuFUS), partly funded by the EU, has developed and proving new processes to provide environmentally sustainable foundations for future developments.
This volume presents papers by the RuFUS project partners and authors from Europe and further afield. It provides valuable technical information and case studies on successful resue of foundations, and extends the guidance presented in the RuFUS best practice handbook.The papers are presented under five themes: Decision making, Foundation assessment methods, Foundation performance, Who pays? Getting it right.
Contents
Preface
PART ONE: DECISION MAKING
- Risks and opportunities
- Risk assessment for increasing loads at Manchester Airport
- Foundation reuse decision model
- Strategy for the reuse of existing piles
PART TWO: FOUNDATION ASSESSMENT METHODS
- Distributed optical fibre strain sensing
- Durability of old timber piles
- Pile geometry and geophysics&
- Structural integrity using optical fibre-based sensors
- Using dam monitoring technology
- NDT methods at BAM Germany
- Non-destructive methods for precast concrete piles
- Brillouin and fibre Bragg grating fibre-optics development
PART THREE: FOUNDATION PERFORMANCE
- Grouted helical piers
- Pile response to heave and construction loading
- Pile-to-pile and pile-cap interaction
- Load bearing behaviour of piles and changes with time
- Small-scale testing of rehabilitated pile groups
- Statnamic pile testing
- Capacity changes of bored piles with time
- Response of foundation piles using elasto-plastic analysis
- Testing of a 50-year-old pile near St Pauls, London
PART FOUR: WHO PAYS?
- Documentation of new foundations to enable reuse
- Embodied energy of four retaining wall systems
- The new Acropolis Museum of Athens
- Archaeology and historic buildings as drivers for reuse
- Pile reuse at The Collection, Lincoln
PART FIVE: GETTING IT RIGHT?
- Redevelopment of 13 Fitzroy Street, London
- Stonebridge Park: demolition case study
- Ludgate West, City of London
- Under-reamed piles in sandstone to assess potential reuse
- South Gyle, Edinburgh
- Reusing piled foundations Car park in Coventry, UK
- The Hessian parliament complex
- Reuse of historical foundations
- Author index; subject index
Readership
- Geootechnical and foundation engineers
- Structural engineers
- Architects
- Developers and clients
- Archaeologists
Benefits
- Latest research into investigating and assessing existing foundations and suitability for reuse
- Case studies of successful projects from UK and Europe
- Valuable background to the companion Handbook
- International expertise on topic of growing importance brought together in a single volume for the first time