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The EN Eurocodes
The EN Eurocodes are a series of 10 European Standards, EN
1990 - EN 1999, providing a common approach for the design of
buildings and other civil engineering works and construction
products. They are the recommended means of giving a
presumption of conformity with the basic requirements of the
Construction Products Regulation for construction works and
products that bear the CE Marking, as well as the preferred
reference for technical specifications in public contracts. [more ]

Worldwide interest in the Eurocodes

Check the countries
that have
expressed interest
or have adopted the
Eurocodes
Many countries
outside EU-EFTA
have shown interest
or have already
adopted the
Eurocodes. The
JRC is collecting
 JRC is collecting
and managing the information on the Eurocodes worldwide
status and presents such information in a map that is regularly
updated.

What do the world media say about the Eurocodes

and other Standards for Construction?
See the latest 100
news at the JRC
Europe Media
Monitor.
The Europe Media
Monitor (EMM) is a
news gathering
engine developed
by the JRC for real-
time monitoring and
analysis of online
media, including
conventional press
and social media, world-wide in 60 languages. It updates the
information every ten minutes and provides automatic
translation. EMM produces a map showing the recent news
articles on the Eurocodes and other standards for the
construction sector. A summary of each article is presented
with a link to the original location.

JRC Science for Policy Report: Eurocodes: Background &

Applications. Elaboration of maps for climatic and seismic
actions for structural design with the Eurocodes

Guidance for
countries adopting
the Eurocodes.
State-of-the-art
material to
elaborate maps for
seismic and climatic
actions for
structural design.
Experience of the
non-EU Balkan
countries on
elaboration of these
maps.

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whole report
(13.86 MB)

Booklet by European Commission: The European

construction sector A global partner

The Joint Research

Centre, the
Enterprise and
Industry Directorate
General and the
Energy Directorate
General produced
an updated version
of the brochure on
 of the brochure on
the integrated
approach of
European policies
for the construction
sector. It covers
sustainability, in
terms of energy and
resource efficiency,
health and safety
issues for buildings,
construction works
and products. The
brochure gives
information on the available support schemes and financial
instruments and highlights the benefits of international
cooperation.

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JRC Science for Policy Report: State of implementation of

the Eurocodes in the European Union

The report presents

the results of the
enquiry on the
implementation of
the Eurocodes in
the EU Member
States and Norway,
which was
performed by DG
GROW and DG
JRC of the
European
Commission in
2014-2015. The
analysis of the state
Presentations available for download.
of implementation
of the Eurocodes in
the EU Member
States and Norway
concludes that in 23
EU Member States
and in Norway the
Eurocodes are implemented. The identified restrictions
imposed by existing National Regulations which define
technical rules different from the provisions of the Eurocodes,
indicate that there is need of a Commission Recommendation
on the regulatory environment for use of the Eurocodes.

Download the whole report (3.56 MB)

Download the Science for Policy Brief (431 kB)

JRC Scientific and Policy Report: Eurocodes: Background

& Applications. Design of Steel Buildings. Worked
examples

The present JRC

report contains
state-of-the-art
training material on
the structural
design of steel
buildings, with
emphasis on
worked examples.
The technical
 The technical
papers here
presented focus on
specific parts of the Presentations available for download.
structural design,
namely basis of
design, modelling of
structure, design of
members,
connections, cold-
formed steel,
seismic and fire
design and on
sustainability aspects. The report intends to contribute towards
the transfer of background knowledge and expertise on the
Eurocodes, mainly the EN 1993, from specialists of the
European Convention for Constructional Steelwork (ECCS)
and of CEN/TC250/Sub Committee 3, to trainers at a national
level and to Eurocodes users. The report includes a
comprehensive description of Eurocodes rules and worked
examples presented by the aforementioned specialists at the
workshop Design of steel buildings with the Eurocodes, with
worked examples that was held on 16-17 October 2014, in
Brussels, Belgium.

Download the whole report (13.3M)

JRC Scientific and Policy Report: Eurocodes: Structural

Fire Design - Worked Examples

This document is a
report with worked
examples
presenting the fire
resistance
assessment of
structures
according to the
Presentations available for download.
Eurocodes. The
authors were
involved in the
preparation and/or
assessment of the
Eurocodes
structural fire
design parts. Each
chapter of the
report focuses on a
specific structural
material (i.e. steel,
concrete, masonry,
etc.) and addresses
the principles and
design methods followed by worked example(s). The provided
information illustrates the basic design methods through
examples of application. It will allow any designer to get a good
understanding about the fundamentals of the fire parts of the
Eurocodes and to carry out fire resistance assessments of
various structures.
The materials were prepared and presented at the workshop
"Eurocodes: Structural Fire Design" held on 27 28 November
2012 in Brussels, Belgium. The workshop was organized by
JRC with the support of DG ENTR and CEN, and in
collaboration with CEN/TC250 Horizontal Group - Fire.
The document is part of the Report Series 'Support to the
implementation, harmonization and further development of the
Eurocodes' prepared by JRC in collaboration with DG ENTR
and CEN/TC250 "Structural Eurocodes".

Download the whole report (5.26M)

JRC Scientific and Policy Report: Eurocode 2: Design of
Concrete Buildings - Worked Examples
BRIDGE DESIGN WITH
This document is a EUROCODES
report with worked
examples
presenting step-by-
step the design of a
reinforced concrete
cast on site building
following Eurocode
2. The design
process has been
divided between
different authors,
some of whom were
involved in the
preparation and/or
assessment of
Eurocode 2. Each
chapter of the
report focuses on a
different step in the
design process:
conceptual design,
structural analyses, limit states design and verification,
detailing of the reinforcement as well as some geotechnical
aspects of building design. Last chapter gives general
overview of the fire design according to the Eurocodes.
The materials were prepared and presented at the workshop
"Eurocode 2: Design of Concrete Buildings" held on 20 21
October 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. The workshop was
organized by JRC with the support of DG ENTR and CEN, and
in collaboration with CEN/TC250/Sub-Committee 2.
The document is part of the Report Series 'Support to the
implementation, harmonization and further development of the
Eurocodes' prepared by JRC in collaboration with DG ENTR
and CEN/TC250 "Structural Eurocodes". Meeting of the EU-Russia Regulatory
Dialogue: Construction Sector Subgroup
Download the whole report (8.75M) Presentations available for download.

JRC Report: Eurocode 7: Geotechnical Design - Worked

examples

This document is a
report with worked
examples
summarizing the
general rules, basic
design principles
and design methods
for geotechnical
design following
Eurocodes. It
comprises an
overview of
Eurocode 7 with
focus on the design
requirements,
actions and design
situations, and limit
states. Different
aspects to be
considered for
designing shallow
foundations, gravity
walls, embedded walls and deep foundations are covered in
the report. The provisions of Eurocode 7 for ground
investigations and testing for geotechnical design, overall
investigations and testing for geotechnical design, overall
stability of and movements in the ground, slopes, hydraulic
failure modes and verifications against them are also
presented. The Annex contains worked examples to
Presentations available for download.
accompany the various chapters of this report.
The materials were prepared and presented at the workshop
Eurocode 7: Geotechnical Design held on 13-14 June 2013 in Seismic Design of Buildings
Dublin, Ireland. The workshop was organized by JRC with the
support of DG ENTR and CEN, and in collaboration with Workshop with worked examples
Lisbon, 10-11 February 2011
CEN/TC250/Sub-Committee 7 and Irelands Department of the
Environment, Community and Local government.

Download the whole report (4.01M)

JRC Report: Eurocode 8: Seismic Design of Buildings -

Worked examples

This JRC Report

document presents
in detail the seismic
design of a At the workshop worked examples covering
reinforced concrete the key aspects of seismic design of
buildings were presented. [more ]
and steel building
following the Presentations available for download.
Eurocodes. It
summarizes
important points of Harmonized European Standards
the Eurocode 8 for for Construction in Egypt
the seismic design Presentations available for download.
of concrete and
steel buildings
including Workshop in Moscow
foundations, utilizing Workshop on Eurocodes 0, 1, 2 in Moscow,
a common generic 9-10 December 2010
building as a basis.
The building worked
example was
presented at the
workshop
"Eurocode 8: Seismic Design of Buildings", held on 10-11
February 2011 in Lisbon, Portugal. The workshop was
organized by JRC with the support of DG ENTR and in
collaboration with CEN/TC250/Sub-Committee 8 and the
National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC, Lisbon).

Download the whole report (8.1MB)

Download the main part of the report only (7.3MB)
Download the annexes of the report only (0.6MB)

JRC Report: Bridge Design to Eurocodes - Worked The second level workshop, Training the
trainers, is organised by TAIEX with the
examples support of the Russian partners.
This JRC reports
presents in detail Design of Bridges
the design of a
bridge structure Workshop with worked examples
Vienna, October 4-6, 2010
following the
Eurocodes. It
summarizes
important points of
the Eurocodes for
the design of
concrete, steel and
composite road
bridges, including A 3-day workshop presented worked
examples comprehensively covering the key
foundations and aspects of bridge design.
seismic design,
utilizing a common Presentations available for download.
bridge structure as a
basis. The bridge
 basis. The bridge
design worked
example was
presented at the
workshop "Bridge
Design to the Eurocodes", held on 4-6 October 2010 in Vienna,
Austria. The workshop was organized by JRC with the support
of DG ENTR and in collaboration with CEN/TC250/Horizontal
Group Bridges, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport,
Innovation and Technology and the Austrian Standards
Institute.

Download the whole report (25.9MB)

Download the main part of the report only (16.2MB)
Download the appendices of the report only (10.2MB)

Eurocode Software
Prof. Francesco Biasioli form the Politecnico di Torino compiled
a list of commercial and freely available Eurocode software.

JRC support to implementation and use

Download the JRC reports on the activities in
support to the implementation, harmonisation
and further development of the Eurocodes.

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