Ghantoot Office and Residential Tower

This Office and Residential Tower had 27 levels. The foundation required deep excavation, for which monitoring instruments were important. 

Encardio Rite’s sister concern, Rite Geosystems LLC in UAE, was awarded an I&M sub-contract for the monitoring works. The scope of monitoring works included 

• Supply, installation, and monitoring of geotechnical instruments
• Weekly and monthly monitoring report submissions.

A good amount of instrumentation was used to monitor the behavior of the diaphragm wall and settlement caused by dewatering and deep excavation. The toe level of the D-wall was -20 m, and the final excavation level was -12m. The instruments involved in monitoring works included 

• Inclinometers for lateral movement of diaphragm wall
• Anchor load cells are used to monitor the force on anchors at almost 2.5. m from capping beam
• Strain gages for the first layer of struts