The private apartment block under construction at Chene-Bourg in the suburbs of Geneva, Switzerland, will not -by the time the first residents have moved in by late 2014 - appear any different from the many others surrounding it. If unremarkable in appearance, what does single it out as something a bit different is the technique used to support the deep excavation during construction - a set of 16 hydraulic shoring struts in two layers stretching across the 26 m wide site.
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