Advantages to verifying ultimate limit state (ULS) by numerical simulation include the checking of multiple failure forms that are not pre-determined and more accurate constitutive modelling. However, geotechnical simulation is particularly challenging due to the high non-linearity of ground constitutive behaviour and interactions with stiff structures. The next generation of the European geotechnical design standard Eurocode 7 will be the first to cover numerical simulation specifically and this webinar will provide an overview of the new rules and the reasoning behind them, together with worked examples.