Farrat were tasked with providing a floating floor for a precision Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) at a cutting edge Advanced Forming Research Centre on the Strathclyde University campus. The University is a leading international centre for engineering research and the centre is the result of a cross-sectoral collaborative partnership between leading academic institutions.
The machine, used for performing demanding measuring tasks in laboratory and production environments, is extremely heavy with only three support feet each loaded with 17kN point loads which would in turn cause high pressure loadings on the floating slabs. There would also be other equipment of varying loads to go on the slab and the layout was regularly altered leading up to the final layout. All of this contributed to a fairly demanding design and installation process.
