Report of discussion session 1, on pile design development and codes

For the conference topic 1, Pile Design Development and Codes 20 abstracts were submitted. The themes of these abstracts were analyzed and although it was not always clear what the exact content of the related paper would be, it shows the important subjects in the field of this conference topic. The most important developments from the abstracts are shown in table 1 (some abstracts deal with more then one item).