CASE STUDY Load Monitoring of Struts: Royal College of Music CLIENT: ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC / GILBERT-ASH / GROUNDFORCE SHORCO THE CHALLENGE June 2018 marked the start of an exciting redevelopment of the prestigious Royal College of Music (RCM) campus, which was first opened in 1882. The large courtyard will be dug out and a new basement and building is planned to go in its place. Due to the total mass of the building and the depth required to excavate a basement, substantial shoring equipment was required to protect the existing building and ensure the safety of site workers from potential collapse. Groundforce Shorco’s, one of the world’s leading supplier of trenching and shoring equipment, provided their MP150 and MP250 hydraulic str

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