Following the commencement of construction of SoFSI in late February 2020, the first on site visit was organised on Monday 22 June. Estates Team Manager Luke Everett, Prof. Tasos Sextos, Head of Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering Research Group (Lead User) and UKCRIC/Bristol Research Manager Patrick Tully safely visited to review recent developments. The main contractor, Andrew Scott Ltd, have adopted safe systems of working to enable construction to continue during the recent period and good progress has been made on construction of the soil pit and reaction mass for the two shaking tables with over two thirds of the concrete pour completed.
We are looking forward to the completion of the reaction mass and main foundations for the building in August – a big milestone for the project. The project is on track for opening in spring 2021.
Thanks for this domain of research. I’m interested to follow your researches, tests, published papers you’re going to write on Soil Structure Interaction.
As you know, in France in 2000′ years, the project CAMUS on the shaking table of CEA took into account the effect of SSI on the dynamic behaviour of a reduced scaled building, in particular for lift of the foundation. A benchmark carried on, but results were not very concluding…