Design of deep excavations according to Eurocode 7

The paper presents the procedure of introducing Eurocode 7 into the design practice in Poland. In the paper, currently used design methods have been compared with new ones, which soon will be used simultaneously with the introduction of Eurocodes. In order to enable the comparison, numerical analysis has been performed on two simple example cases presented by the committee ERTC-10 "Evaluation of Eurocode 7". This gave the authors an opportunity to assess and compare properly different design approaches - up-to-date and new, now being introduced. Final conclusions and issues giving rise to further discussion have been presented at the end of the paper.