Eurocode 7: Geotechnical design

In the Eurocode series of European standards (EN) related to construction, Eurocode 7: Geotechnical design (abbreviated EN 1997 or, informally, EC 7) describes how to design geotechnical structures, using the limit state design philosophy.

It is published in two parts; "General rules" and "Ground investigation and testing".

It was approved by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) on 12 June 2006.

[1] Eurocode 7 is intended to: Eurocode 7 is composed of the following parts EN 1997-1 is intended to be used as a general basis for the geotechnical aspects of the design of buildings and civil engineering works.

EN 1997-1 is accompanied by Annexes A to J, which provide: EN 1997-2 is intended to be used in conjunction with EN 1997-1 and provides rules supplementary to EN 1997-1 related to planning and reporting of ground investigations, general requirements for a range of commonly used laboratory and field tests, interpretation and evaluation of test results and derivation of values of geotechnical parameters and coefficients.