Before the new Eurocode 7 pre-standard was issued at the end of 2022, reinforced soil was covered by the German EBGEO guidelines, which designers often used in combination with Eurocode 7:2005. The new pre-standard EC7:2022 includes a chapter on reinforced soil, but also defines the approach of proving the safety of geotechnical constructions differently from EBGEO. In the thesis, we compared the required lengths and tensile strengths of the reinforcement geosynthetics according to the three standards EC7:2005, EBGEO, and EC7:2022, using a specific example of a reinforced embankment. We found that the formal differences in procedures were minimal, and the calculated lengths of geogrids differed only slightly between the three standards. However, a noticeable difference arises in the calculation of the required tensile strength of geosynthetics, where the new Eurocode prescribes a smaller partial safety factor for the mechanical resistance of geosynthetics �� (1.1), compared to EBGEO (1.4), affecting the dimensioning results.
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