CROSS: Basement excavation under a semi-detached house causes collapse

The executive summary from a 2020 Research Award winning project.

This article discusses excavation work and the serious consequences a collapse of excavation entails, both for life and purely as an economic loss.

This month's report concerns a poorly designed retaining wall, immediately adjacent to a steel-framed multistorey building, which deflected and imposed significant lateral geotechnical loads into the building's superstructure.