Solid as a Rock
In 1996 Stuart MacGregor designed what was to become central to an evolving and innovative series of anchored instrumentation. A sixth-generation gold miner – and hoping his 19-year-old son is on his way to becoming the seventh generation – Stuart, the managing director and principal geotechnical engineer of SCT Operations, designed the first Rock-IT instrumentation with the effective and accurate measurement of ground movement in mind. “In a former role, I spent a lot of time underground, and my job was to measure the ground moving, so this is where a lot of these ideas crystalised,” he said. “When I joined SCT (Strata Control Technology) the coal industry didn’t have the experience in monitoring ground movement. “These instruments are all…