ICD Brookfield Place

The mixed-use development ICD Brookfield Place designed by Foster + Partners consists of a 53 storey, 282 m high tower, located in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) district.

A comprehensive monitoring program was executed that consisted of an exhaustive plan for the before, during and after of the enabling work for this project. The installation and monitoring of surface geotechnical and geodetic instruments was done to monitor surface and sub-surface movements.

Encardio-rite was awarded the sub-contract for the monitoring work of the project. The scope of work included the supply of instruments, installation, monitoring, surveying, an online database management system and daily and weekly reporting.

Range of instruments used in the project included a strain gage, pressure cells and settlement points for raft monitoring and ground settlement points and prism targets for monitoring the shoring work.