Webinars · 24 March 2026
Overdesign is not Safety
Talk at the 3rd Annual Conference on Foundation Decarbonization and Re-use in Amsterdam
This talk from the Foundation Decarbonization Conference 2026 explains why overdesign in specialist foundation engineering is conservative for bearing capacity, but not for the environment. The talk is held in English.
Contents
Using real project examples from Germany, the Netherlands and Austria, the speaker shows how blanket grouping and overly cautious soil profiles lead to unnecessary consumption of concrete and steel.
The talk demonstrates how individual load assumptions per pile, governing soil profiles and batch calculation with piledesigner.io achieve material and pile length savings of 5 to 50 percent, optimising CO₂, cost and construction time at the same time.
Who it is for
For structural and geotechnical engineers who design foundations, and for clients and project managers who want to assess the material footprint of their projects.
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