Terms of Reference:

1. To foster cooperation and exchange of information on engineering characterisation of difficult soft soil sites, focusing on the definition of representative soil profiles and static and dynamic properties to be considered in foundation design.
2. To contribute to the advancement of design method and technology issues related to foundations in soft soils taking into account factors that are commonly significant in those soils such as regional subsidence and seismic amplification.
3. To prepare proposals for monitoring schemes as well as for pile testing, in cases of foundation in extreme soft soil and/or earthquake conditions.
4. To collect and publish well-documented case histories regarding analysis, design, construction and behaviour of foundations and earth structures built on soft soils.