The third edition of the ICE Specification for Piling and Embedded Retaining Walls, which has become known as SPERWall has been published and can be used by Clients, Engineers, Contractors and the like as the authoritative document on all aspects of Piling and Retaining Walls.

The full edition of SPERWall can be obtained from Thomas Telford (Tel: +44 (0)1892 832299) http://www.thomastelford.com. ISBN 978-0-7277-6157-6, price £66.25 + p&p.

We urge the industry to use the third edition wherever possible as it has significant changes to the previous edition. Historically we published a number of documents to support the second edition of SPERWall, should you need these please contact the Secretariat – fps@fps.org.uk