Installing ground anchors at Royal Victoria Hospital
As part of the enabling works for a new 13 storey critical care unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Albion Drilling Group was appointed by piling and foundations contractor, FK Lowry Piling Ltd, to install ground anchors
The works involved installing two rows of temporary anchors around the excavations in order to hold back the contiguous piled wall installed by FK Lowry Piling. Anchors diameters were 28mm, 32mm and 36mm and loads ranged from 120kN to 450kN.
Multi-Staged removable strand anchors, also supplied by Dywidag Systems, were used in a section of the retaining structure to accommodate the next phase of the piling work which is to run adjacent to the current site.
Technical Details:
- Dywidag PST monobar and Multi-Staged removable strand anchors
- Ground Anchor Diameters: 36mm, 32mm and 28mm
- Casing System: Symmetrix N131
- Anchor Loads: 120kN to 450kN
- Rig Types: Atlas Copco Mustang 9-H5
