Foundations and Retaining Structures Course
Gain mastery in foundations and retaining structures, covering soil testing to wall design, drainage, and stability verification. Discover practical techniques, computations, and detailing to create safer, cost-effective structures for real-world building sites, ensuring reliability and efficiency from start to finish.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course equips you with hands-on skills to design strong foundations and cantilever retaining walls in sandy soils. You will master earth pressure theories, drainage systems, stability analysis, and reinforcement details through straightforward numerical examples. Build expertise in picking foundation types, evaluating settlement, and using global safety standards for actual projects.
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Develop skills
- Design retaining walls by sizing stems, bases, and reinforcements for practical jobs.
- Compute earth and water pressures using Rankine, Coulomb theories, and added loads.
- Verify wall stability through sliding, overturning, and bearing capacity assessments.
- Choose suitable foundations like footings or rafts beside walls to manage settlement.
- Develop build-ready details including drainage, construction steps, and site monitoring.
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