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Keynote Address: Offshore Foundation Safety

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The title of this keynote address is ‘Offshore Foundation Safety’. This is a wide subject and could be controversial, however nothing I am going to say is particularly new rather I am going to present old information with a new emphasis. I will be concentrating on the UK offshore sector but the principles that I will be elaborating on are the same worldwide.

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Birkinshaw, M. (1993). Keynote Address: Offshore Foundation Safety. In: Ardus, D.A., Clare, D., Hill, A., Hobbs, R., Jardine, R.J., Squire, J.M. (eds) Offshore Site Investigation and Foundation Behaviour. Advances in Underwater Technology, Ocean Science and Offshore Engineering, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2473-9_2

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