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The Texas Section of the American Society
of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has been
working since 1999 to create guidelines for residential foundation engineering.
This effort grew out of the response of many Section members to the Policy
Advisory issued by the Texas Board of Professional Engineers (TBPE) in 1998.
The Policy Advisory addressed engineering issues for residential foundation
investigation, design, evaluation and/or repair. Many ASCE practitioners expressed the opinion that technical guidelines
should more rightly be created by a technical society such as ASCE rather than
by the TBPE.
Two Section subcommittees were created in
year 2000, each composed of 20 to 30 members. The Investigation and Design
subcommittee is Chaired by Phil King, PE, and the Evaluation and Repair
subcommittee by Bob Pierry, PE. An Oversight Committee was subsequently created
to provide guidance and oversight to the subcommittee work, Chaired by Ottis
Foster, PE.
Draft documents were completed in late 2001, and they are being submitted to the
Texas Section ASCE Board of Directors at the Spring 2002 Section meeting for
preliminary acceptance prior to presenting them to the members and public for
comment. If accepted by the Board, the documents will likely be posted on the
ASCE web site (www.texasce.org)
and possibly in other news media, as well as this (TCEL's)
web site to solicit comments. After the comment period,
the three committees will re-convene to consider the comments and finalize the
documents. The Committee goal is to present final documents to the Section
Board at the Fall 2002 meeting in Waco for possible adoption and subsequent
publication.
Please contact Ottis Foster, Oversight Committee Chair, in Waco at 254-840-2252
(E-mail:
fugrowaco@aol.com) for more information.
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