Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts is located in the heart of London, and home to Britain’s longest-established art school. They put on world-class exhibitions of art from around the world, welcoming hundreds of thousands of people each year.

We were asked to conduct a proof load test on a bespoke lifting jib. Its purpose was to support an exhibit by Anthony Gormley entitled “Body and Fruit”.

Our challenge was to apply a live load of 6,000kgs without overloading the first floor location.

A robust 10T capacity weights cage was fabricated, and the live load was transported manually into the suspended apparatus.

Non-permanent deformation was recorded at 250kg increments.

The test was successful.

We even went to visit the exhibit on the opening weekend in Picadilly!