BegrensSkade II / REMEDY - Risk Reduction of Groundwork Damage

This R&D program has the aim to reduce the risk of damage caused by groundwork (excavation, foundation and construction work) during and after execution of a project, and the risk of damage to neighbouring structures. The project has 18 partners representing all stakeholders within the building and construction sector. The Research Council of Norway (RCN) is supporting the work through the programme for "User-driven Research Based Innovation (BIA)". The RCN support is crucial for this sector-wide cooperation and for the realization of the project.

Objective

The primary objective of BegrensSkade II / REMEDY is to integrate foundation engineering and risk assessment and management, in order to reduce the technological and economic risks of damage caused by groundwork. To achieve this objective, geo-research is needed on the causes of excessive settlements and other damage triggers, and new guidelines and requirements for design and construction are urgently required.

The research will lead to more efficient and more reliable design and construction. BegrensSkade II / REMEDY has the potential to realize cost savings of billions of NOK annually in the building, construction and property sectors in Norway. BegrensSkade II / REMEDY is a further development of the previous BegrensSkade R&D program. See more information about the project background.

Partners

The project has 18 partners representing all stakeholders within the building and construction sector: contractors, consultants, suppliers, property and project owners, public organizations and insurance companies, as well as research organisations. Each industry partner will contribute a total cash funding of 300 kNOK over five years.

Focus

BegrensSkade II / REMEDY will focus on the three most common causes of damage (documented in BegrensSkade) and two additional source of uncertainty and potential significant damage:

• Drilling for foundation piles and supporting tie-back anchors for sheet pile walls, causing erosion, disturbance and drainage which in turn causes reconsolidation.
• Drainage towards excavations causing pore pressure lowering and settlements of soft clay.
• Lack of assessment of the risk involved in different solutions.
• Methods for deep excavations where there is an increasing need for unconventional (new) methods for larger and deeper excavations than earlier.
• Vibrations after-effects of construction activity, e.g. rock blasting, hammering, compaction or pile driving.
  
  Each of these situations are encountered in building and construction projects presently underway in Norway.

Six work packages (WP)

Research tasks in BegrensSkade II / REMEDY comprises six work packages (WP1 to WP6):

WP 1: Drilling for installation of piles and tie‐back anchors
WP 2: Deep excavations and foundations
WP 3: Hydrogeological methods, drainage and grouting
WP 4: Vibrations induced by construction activity
WP 5: Risk assessment and management
WP 6: Cooperation, guidelines and competence build‐up across entire sector.

Key Deliverables: Improved methods and guidelines

BegrensSkade II / REMEDY will reduce the risks due to damages caused by groundwork by integrating new geotechnical engineering solutions with risk assessment and management, and improving the interaction and cooperation among the stakeholders in the building construction and property sectors. Improved methods and guidelines will be developed for:

1. drilling for anchors and piles,
2. deep excavations and foundations,
3. effect of drainage and grouting methods, and
4. damage from vibrations due to construction activity.

The figure below illustrates the project structure, including surrounding constraints and expected impact.

Project Manager: Dr. Jenny Langford

BegrensSkade II / REMEDY is a research project conducted via the Research Council of Norway's (RCN) programme for "User-driven Research based Innovation (BIA)". Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) is RCN's contract partner and will – as the coordinator of the project – have the overall responsibility. SINTEF and NTNU will be NGI's research partners in the project.

The project has 18 partners representing all stakeholders within the building and construction sector.

The project has been organised with one Project Manager and one Deputy Project Manager, one steering committee and a scientific Advisory Group. The project board comprises one representative from each partner and one representative from the Research Council of Norway.

Organizing Chart

Steering committee

(one representative from each partner)

Anders Qviller anders.qviller@kynningsrud.no
Astri Eggen astri.eggen@veidekke.no
Frode Oset frode.oset@vegvesen.no
Geir Veslegard geir@bergboring.no
Heidi Jørgensen heidi.jorgensen@skanska.no
Helen Andersson helen.andersson@hwe.no
Hildegunn Bjerke hildegunn.bjerke@fno.no
John Petter Holtmon john-petter.holtmon@entreprenorservice.no
Juan Barrera juan.barrera@banenor.no
Kevin Tuttle kevin.tuttle@norconsult.com
Knut Erik Lier kelier@jetgrunn.no
Lisbeth-Ingrid Alnæs lisbeth.alnas@sintef.no
Magnus Rømoen magnus.romoen@ngi.no
Ole Tryggestad ole.tryggestad@multiconsult.no
Per Bolin p.bolin@kellergrundlaggning.se
Sebastien Resseguier sebastien.resseguier@ramboll.no
Steinar Nordal steinar.nordal@ntnu.no
Torbjørn Johansen torbjorn.johansen@geovita.no

Deliverables from the REMEDY Project:

BegrensSkade sluttrapport.pdf (Norwegian only)

Risk tool (xlsm file)

Manual Risiko verktøy (Norwegian only)

WP1:
Tyvold, Henning Fürst (2020)
Small-scale model for pile drilling under realistic stress conditions 

WP2:
Attari et al. (2023)
Evaluation of Pile Driving Effects on Slope Stability in Clay

Attari et al. Geoteknikkdagen. (2023)
Assessment of the impact of pile driving on slope stability

Fromreide, Ragnhild. (2020)
Effect of strain-softening behaviour on slope stability during pile driving

WP3:
Kahlström et al. (2022)
Drainage to Excavations – State of the Art Report

Stav, Helene. (2022)
Grunnvannsmodellering som et verktøy for å estimere setninger rundt byggegroper

Kahlström, Mats. (2022)
Using hydrogeological numerical modelling to predict drainage to excavations – findings from four Norwegian case studies

Ånes, Eivind Wiik et al. (2021)
Numerical hydrogeological modelling of drainage to an excavation

WP4:
Norén-Cosgriff, Karin. (2021)
Vibration induced damage due to construction work – Blasting tests

Johansson, Jörgen. (2019)
Vibration induced damage due to construction work – Effect of vibrations on slope stability

Norén-Cosgriff et al. (2020)
Full Scale Measurements of Vibration and Strain in Buildings From Rock Blasting
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Johansson, Jörgen et al. 2020
Reducing Impact of Vibrations from Compaction on Slope Stability

Norén-Cosgriff et al. (2020)
Building damage due to vibration from rock blasting

Norén-Cosgriff, Karin; Ramstad, Nils. (2019)
Måleresultater etter fullskala sprengningsforsøk – hvor kraftige vibrasjoner tåler en bygning før det oppstår skader

WP5:
Piciullo, Luca et al. (2020)
Assessment of building damage due to excavation-induced displacements: The GIBV method

Lin, Cungang. (2018)
A literature review of risk matrices applied for risk assessment in geotechnical engineering

Piciullo, Luca; Langford, Jenny. (2019)
Verktøy for Risikohåndtering – Manual Norsk

Ånes, Eivind Wiik et al. (2022)
GIBV Risikoverktøy – Brukermanual og dokumentasjon

Literature list:

Attari, Y., Jostad, H.P., Grimstad, G. et al. Evaluation of Pile Driving Effects on Slope Stability in Clay. Geotech Geol Eng (2023).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-023-02636-w

 Attari, Y., Eiksund, G. & Jostad, H.P. (2023). Assessment of the impact of pile driving on slope stability. NFF Geoteknikkdagen 2023.  
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3111894 
 
Lande, E.J., Ritter, S. & Nordal, S. (2021). Small-scale modelling of pile drilling in sand – investigation of the influence on surrounding ground. Proc. 10th Int. Symposium on Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground: Cambridge, 28-30 June 2021, Chapter in book: Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground, CRC Press. DOI: 10.1201/9780429321559-40  
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Lande, E. J., Sandene, T., Langford, J. & Ritter, S. (2022). Reduksjon av skader fra boring av peler og ankere – Anbefalinger fra BegrensSkade II.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3112085 
 
Lande, E.J., Karlsrud, K., Langford, J. & Nordal, S. (2020). Effects of drilling for tieback anchors on surrounding ground - results from field tests. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, vol. 146(8).
https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0002274 
 
Lande, E.J., Ritter, S., Tryvold, H. & Nordal, S. (2021). Physical modelling of pile drilling in sand. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, vol 58.
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/cgj-2020-0373 
 
Langford, J., Norén-Cosgriff, K., Lacasse, S., Brekke, A. & Koelsch, G. (2019). Risk assessment of vibrations caused by groundworks. XVII European conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Reykjavik, Iceland. 
https://www.ecsmge-2019.com/uploads/2/1/7/9/21790806/0041-ecsmge-2019_langford.pdf 
 
Langford, J., Lande, E.-J., Sandene, T., Kahlström, M., Nadim, F., Norén-Cosgriff, K., Piciullo, L., Ritter, S., Hauser, C., Lysdahl, A. Attari, Y. & Formreide, R. (2021). BegrensSkade II – REMEDY – Risk reduction of groundwork damage: An Overview. Nordisk Geoteknikermøte nr. 18. Helsinki, IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 710 012073.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/710/1/012058 

Langford, J.; Ritter, S.; Lysdahl, A. K.; Ånes, E. W.; Piciullo, L. (2023). Assessing potential building damage caused by leakage to urban tunnels. Geomechanics and Tunnelling 16, No. 6, pp. 1–6. https:// doi.org/10.1002/geot.202300028 
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3104675 
 
Langford, J., Lysdahl, A.O.K., Ritter, S, Ånes, E.W. & Piciullo, L. (2023). ArcGIS-verktøy for å vurdere innlekkasjekrav og konsekvenser av tunnel i urbane områder. NFF Bergmekanikk og Geoteknikkdagen 2023. 
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3112096 
 
Norén-Cosgriff K.M., Ramstad N., Neby A. , Madshus C. (2020). Building damage due to vibration from rock blasting. Journal of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2020.106331 
 
Norén-Cosgriff, K., Ellingsen, S. , Resvoll, R. & Hov, S. (2022). The new Museum of the Viking Age - Assessment of vibration from groundworks to avoid damage to artefacts. Applied Acoustics. DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2022.108862  
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003682X22002365 

Piciullo, L., Ritter, S, Lysdahl, A.O.K., Langford, J. & Nadim, F. (2020). Assessment of building damage due to excavation-induced displacements: the GIBV method. Journal of Tunnelling and underground space technology. DOI: 10.1016/j.tust.2020.103673 
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0886779820306271 
 
Piciullo, L., Bekele, J., Depina, I., Nadim, F. & Langford, J. (2021). A management tool to reduce the risk of damage caused by geotechnical groundworks. Nordisk Geoteknikermøte nr. 18. Helsinki, IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 710 012058. 
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/710/1/012073 

Piciullo, L., Ritter, S, Lysdahl, A.O.K., von der Tann, L., Langford, J. & Nadim, F. (2022). The use of the GIBV method for monitoring the effects of urban excavations on built heritage. Geotechnical Engineering for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Sites III – Lancellotta, Viggiani, Flora, de Silva & Mele (Eds).
The use of the GIBV method for monitoring the effects of urban excavat 
 
Ritter, S., Piciullo, L., Kydland Lysdahl, A.O., Kahlström, M., Langford, J. & Nadim, F. (2021). Mapping the risk of building damage due to excavation-induced displacements. Proc. 10th Int. Symposium on Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground: Cambridge, 28-30 June 2021, Chapter in book: Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground, CRC Press.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9780429321559-83/mapping-risk-building-damage-due-excavation-induced-displacements-ritter-piciullo-kydland-lysdahl-kahlstr%C3%B6m-langford-nadim 
 
Sandene, T., Ritter, S. & Lande, E.J. (2021). A case study on the effects of anchor drilling in soft, low sensitive clay and sandy, silty soils. Proc. 10th Int. Symposium on Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground: Cambridge, 28-30 June 2021, Chapter in book: Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground, CRC Press.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9780429321559-85/case-study-effects-anchor-drilling-soft-low-sensitive-clay-sandy-silty-soils-sandene-ritter-lande 
 
Sandene, T., Langford, J., Long, M., Kahlström, M, Ritter, S. (2023). A Norwegian database for deep excavations in soft clay with focus on installation effects and groundwater drainage (in press). ASCE Journal of Geotech