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New Shires Shopping Centre, Leicester
MULTIPROP falsework
used to support 3,500 tonne slab
As part of massive investment in the City of Leicester’s infrastructure, Sir Robert McAlpine have been awarded the design and build contract of a £350 million redevelopment at the heart of the city.
Doubling the size of the existing shopping centre with an additional 600,000 sq ft of retail area, the Highcross Quarter project is expected to require 150,000 tonnes of concrete which is being managed by subcontractor Byrne Bros. (formwork) ltd.
Byrne Bros. chose to use they’re existing stock of VARIO girder wall formwork alongside PERI CB 240 climbing scaffold on 11 of the projects 15 cores. The TRIO panels on the remaining four cores were hired additionally in order to make a comparison of the two systems.
Forming car park access over the shopping centres central atrium, a massive 3,500 tonne slab with a soffit height of 14.50 m was required to be cast in-situ. The backbone of the slab is a 30 m long, 4 m high Reinforced concrete ‘I’-beam containing 90 tonnes of steel reinforcement. The operation took six months to plan and utilised 800 PERI MULTIPROPs with accompanying Aluminium beams and GT 24 girders.
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GT 24
MULTIPROP Slab prop
CB Climbing System
TRIO
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Don Houston
Senior Project Manager
“We found the simplicity of the TRIO system very impressive. As it can be largely man-handled, it was extremely useful where awkward building layouts restricted access.”
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PERI scope 1|2008, GB
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