This guideline has been published to assist commercial clients in considering the principal issues involved in briefing, selecting and engaging consulting engineers.

<p>Eurocode 7 on 'Geotechnical design' is now actively being implemented throughout Europe. In particular, Part 1 devoted to the 'General rules' (Part 1) has been published in 2004 and National Annexes are presently being prepared (2006). After describing ...