Subsidence investigation protocol for LA Tree Officers and Consultants
   

Course Details

 

Date: 28th April 2008

 

Cost £95.00 plus VAT buffet lunch tea, coffee and biscuits included

 

Venue: Tree Life Training Centre, Braemar Court, 1319 Melton Road, Syston, Leicestershire LE& 2EN.

 

Times: 9.30 – 4.30

 

The aim of the course is to provide a programme that allows Arboricultural attendees to go away with sufficient understanding of how a claim to fell a tree implicated in subsidence should be processed in relation to:

 

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Understanding the insurance prospective

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Undertaking a desk top study of available data

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Data interpretation

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Making a site visit

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Mitigating the damage caused

 

The programme will cover the following issues:

 

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Subsidence a persistent problem

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What is Heave

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Preliminary actions in an alleged case of subsidence

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Diagnosing subsidence problems

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Trees and desiccation

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Subsidence monitoring

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Interpretation of laboratory  and monitoring results

bulletMitigating subsidence damage in relation to tree works

 

Each candidate will be able to take away with them a template that can be used to methodically work through a claim and allow conclusions to be drawn and thereafter can present these to other parties such as LA solicitors as a means of seeking a permanent solution to the claim.

 

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  Updated: 05.02.08