Overview

One day course on the management of flood risk to road, railway and canal structures across or within rivers. This course is ‘stand alone’, but can also be attended before the Weir Design course to provide the first day of a two day course.

Who should attend

The course is designed for owners, asset managers and operators with responsibility for bridges, weirs and culverts spanning watercourses. It is also relevant to designers of bridges and culverts.

Course outcomes

By attending the course delegates will:

• Gain an appreciation of best practice in the assessment and management of scour risk in the UK, Ireland and the USA
• Learn  about the causes of scour, how the risk can be assessed and how to set up a management system for vulnerable assets
• Learn about the methods of scour protection, including concrete inverts, rock armour, gabions, sacrificial piling and bio-engineering
• Be provided with details of the pros and cons of each technique, design procedures and consent requirements.  

Topics covered

• Causes and types of scour (local, general, contraction, jet)
• Factors influencing scour
• Good asset management practice
• Underwater examination – specification, record keeping and analysis
• Screening structures for scour risk
• Scour risk assessment
• Assessment of other hydraulic loadings, including debris impact
• Methods of scour protection
• The use of flood warning and other non-structural risk-management methods
• This course includes information from the following guidance
• CIRIA (2001) Manual on Scour at Bridges and Other Hydraulic Structures
• Network Rail (1992) Hydraulic Aspects of Bridges: Assessment of the Risk of Scour
• Highways Agency, BA74/06 – Assessment of Scour at Highway Bridges

Related courses

• Bridge and Weir Design

Presenter

Richard Buck BEng CEng MICE MCIWEM C.WEM 

Summary

• Introductory one day course
• Counts as 6 CPD/CET hours

Course dates