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Date: 22 November 2012 Venue: Wokingham, Berkshire Course Tutors: Dr Giles Biddle and Dr Martin Dobson Course Objectives To enable course members to: - Describe the principal issues involved in tree-related subsidence
- Understand the mechanisms of tree-related subsidence
- Explain the legal framework
- Identify different types of investigation and their appropriate application
- List types of evidence and explain their interpretation
- Describe the application of appropriate management principles
- Explain evidence requirements on TPO applications
- Understand the relevance of risk prediction and assessment
Who is the Course for? Any arboricultural professional that may be required to advise upon, or manage subsidence cases, including Local Authority Tree officers, Arboricultural Consultants and Contractors. It may also be useful to professionals of other disciplines such as loss adjusters and engineers to gain an arboricultural perspective on subsidence. Prerequisites Experience working within the arboricultural industry or allied disciplines concerned with subsidence. Course duration One day Course content - Introduction and background to tree-related subsidence
- Legal framework
- How insurance claims are generated
- Engineering solutions
- Types of investigation – desktop, monitoring, soil analysis
- Evidence types and interpretation
- Application – decision making and management
- Risk assessment / risk prediction
Materials provided - Ring binder with course notes
- Free copy of Giles Biddle’s two-volume book: Tree root damage to buildings
Certification Arboricultural Association attendance certificate
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