If you have difficulty in submitting comments on draft standards you can use a commenting template and email it to admin.start@bsigroup.com. The commenting template can be found here.

We use cookies to give you the best experience and to help improve our website

Find out what cookies we use and how to disable them

B/526/3 - (Disbanded 20.09.2024 See B/526/7) Ground investigation and ground testing

Sector: Construction

Categories: Management. Human resources | Certification. Conformity assessment | Soils. Physical properties | Road engineering | Earthworks. Excavations. Foundation construction. Underground works

Overview: Under the direction of B/526 is responsible for the UK input to national, European and international standards, in particular Eurocode 7 parts 2 and 3, along with Eurocodes related material including the extensive series of testing standards developed by CEN/TC 341 and ISO/TC 182 Geotechnics.

Committee standards activity

In Progress (10)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
NWI proposal - prEN ISO 16383-2 Geotechnical investigation and testing – Laboratory testing of rock – Part 1: Determination of bulk density

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Construction | Civil engineering | Earthworks. Excavations. Foundation construction. Underground works

Proposal begins : 2023-07-26 		Proposal
ISO/TC 182 N 294, ISO/NP 22476, Geotechnical investigation and testing - Field testing - Part 16: Borehole shear test

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Construction | Construction materials and building | Construction industry | Construction industry. General | Civil engineering | Civil engineering. General

Proposal begins : 2019-07-09 		Proposal
ISO/NP 16383-2 Geotechnical investigation and testing — Laboratory testing of rock — Part 2: Determination of bulk density

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Business | Company organization and management | Management. Human resources | Construction | Civil engineering | Earthworks. Excavations. Foundation construction. Underground works

Proposal begins : 2023-07-26 		Proposal
CEN/TC 341 N 945, EN ISO 18674-7 Geotechnical investigation and testing — Geotechnical monitoring by field instrumentation – Part 7: Measurement of strains : strain gauges

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Measurement and Science | Testing | Construction | Construction materials and building | Building elements | Civil engineering | Earthworks. Excavations. Foundation construction. Underground works

Proposal begins : 2021-03-31 		Proposal
BS XXXX Geotechnical investigation and testing — Qualification criteria and assessment — Part 1: Personnel

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Construction | Construction materials and building | Civil engineering | Earthworks. Excavations. Foundation construction. Underground works

Proposal begins : 2023-02-10 		Proposal
BS XXXX Geotechnical investigation and testing — Qualification criteria and assessment — Part 2: Conformity assessment of enterprises and personnel by third party

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Construction | Construction materials and building | Civil engineering | Earthworks. Excavations. Foundation construction. Underground works

Proposal begins : 2023-02-07 		Proposal
BS EN ISO 17892-12:2018/Amd 1 Geotechnical investigation and testing - Laboratory testing of soil. Part 12: Determination of liquid and plastic limits - Amendment 1

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2020-04-14 		Drafting
BS 1377-9 Methods for test for soils for civil engineering purposes. In-situ tests

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Construction | Civil engineering | Earthworks. Excavations. Foundation construction. Underground works

Proposal begins : 2022-12-21 		Proposal
BS 1377 parts 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 BS 1377-X ‘Classification tests and determination of physical properties

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Environment | Soil quality | Soils. Examination. General | Soils. Physical properties | Soils. Hydrological properties | Construction | Construction materials and building | Construction technology

Proposal begins : 2020-03-30 		Proposal
Amendment to BS 1377-3:2018 Methods of test for soils for civil engineering purposes. Chemical and electro-chemical testing

Categories: Information management | Civil engineering | Standardization. General rules | Environment | Soil quality | Soils. Examination. General | Soils. Chemical characteristics | Construction | Construction materials and building

Proposal begins : 2020-10-14 		Proposal
Published (1)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
AMD 13925 BS1377-4 : 1990 Soils for civil engineering purposes. Part 4: Compaction-related tests

Categories: Earthworks. Excavations. Foundation construction. Underground works

Published standard begins : 2002-12-05 		Published standard
Withdrawn (0)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.