The Modelling of Excavation Protection in a Highly Urbanised Environment

This paper presents the problem of excavation protection in an ‘infill’ construction environment surrounded by neighbouring buildings. It presents a method of protecting deep excavation within a palisade of CFA reinforced piles in casing pipes. The 3D model was built using the ZSoil program, in which the neighbouring buildings were taken into account in modelling. The HSs model of the ground base was adopted. Based on the ITB instruction [1], an analysis was performed on the impact of building expansion on neighbouring buildings; this analysis provides guidelines for the first two phases, i.e. the phase of shoring construction and the phase of actual excavation. The study also takes into account the phase of building serviceability. After including the results of numerical analysis in the estimation of the displacements of neighbouring structures, the results were compared with indicative displacement limit values of displacement building structures.