Design of corrugated steel buried structures (formerly BD 12/01). Version 2.0.0

DMRB: Highway Structures and Bridges CD 375 Version 2.0.0

National Highways, 2025
Design of corrugated steel buried structures (formerly BD 12/01). Version 2.0.0 Download document

Document Status

Current

Supplement

Civil & Structural Supplement

Series

DMRB: Highway Structures and Bridges

Abstract

Provides design requirements and principles relating to corrugated steel buried structures, covering limit states, actions, effects of actions, strength parameters, durability, excavation and filling, rigidity, construction details, and design outputs.

History

Highway structures and bridges. Design. Supersedes CD 375 Revision 1 Design of corrugated steel buried structures (formerly BD 12/01). Revision 1 (HE, 2020). Version 0 dated August 2018 - replaces BD 12/01. Version 1 dated Mar 2020 - updates references and discipline. Version 2.0.0 dated September 2025. Updated to provide clear and consistent flow of requirements from this document to CC 605, incorporate relevant design requirements from the superseded MCHW series 2501, as well as various editorial and referencing updates.

Subjects

  • Civil engineering, infrastructure and public utilities
  • Transport facilities
  • Roads
  • Culverts

Publisher History

National Highways is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Transport. It has responsibility for operating, maintaining and improving motorways and major A roads in England. Formerly known as Highways England, between 2015-2021 and Highways Agency, between 1994-2015.

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