Temporary Works

Engineering Principles and Structural Assurance is Volume 3 of the Temporary Works Engineering and Management Series and provides a practical, internationally relevant guide to the engineering principles that support safe and reliable temporary works.
Temporary works may be temporary in duration, but their structural demands can be significant. Loads can change rapidly, ground conditions may be uncertain, partially completed structures may depend on temporary restraint, and critical interfaces may exist between temporary and permanent works.
This volume explains how temporary works should be understood from an engineering perspective, with particular emphasis on loads, stability, ground conditions, structural interfaces and construction-stage assurance.
Key topics include:

• loads, actions and design assumptions;
• construction, plant, wind, earth and water pressures;
• load paths, overturning, sliding and buckling;
• bracing, restraint, connections and structural robustness;
• ground investigation, bearing capacity and settlement;
• temporary foundations and working platforms;
• groundwater, drainage and changing ground conditions;
• interaction with existing and permanent structures;
• support reactions, temporary connections and propping;
• structural release, survey, monitoring and trigger levels;
• construction-stage changes and reassessment; and
• dismantling, emergency stabilisation and structural assurance.