Introduction to piles, Design and construction of Bored Cast insitu piles and Driven Cast insitu piles: Overview of Pile foundations, Selection Criteria, Common Design considerations, General Terminologies and Indian standard codes. Materials and Equipment, Construction procedures, workmanship, Vertical and Lateral Capacity calculations, Load tests, Case Studies of Bored cast insitu piles and Driven cast insitu piles.

Introduction, design and construction of precast driven and under reamed piles: Materials and Equipment, Construction procedures, workmanship, Vertical and Lateral Capacity calculations, Load tests, Case Studies of precast driven piles, precast driven piles in pre-bored holes and Under reamed piles.

Grouping and settlement of piles and testing: Introduction to Grouping and Settlement of piles, Pile Group efficiency and Spacing, Capacity of Pile group, Settlement of Pile group, Case studies Introduction & Types of testing on piles and General requirements for testing, Pile Integrity tests – introduction & Equipment Types of Pile Integrity test, Data Recording & Interpretation of results, Introduction to quality assurance of piles, General requirement.

Quality control and Special Types of piles: Quality Control of BCIS, DCIS piles, Quality records and checklists. Materials, Equipment, manufacturing procedure, Design and installation, suitability and application and failure modes of spun piles and helical piles.

Software and Bill of quantities, Construction challenges: Introduction to Bill of quantities for Bored cast insitu, Driven Cast insitu, Precast driven and Precast driven piles in pre-bored holes and undreamed piles. Challenges in bored and driven piles, Introduction to types of piling software, Software demonstrations (e.g., PLAXIS) and step-by-step design techniques for deep foundations. Modelling in Plaxis 2D.