Construction activity is a major cause of disputes and claims. Activities such as demolition, piling and excavation can lead to damage and disruption affecting neighbouring properties and infrastructure.
An effective monitoring programme will not remove these risks, but it can detect problems early enough to change working methods and reduce them. It can also quantify movement patterns that are "normal" and not linked with construction work - therefore helping contractors defend themselves against unjustified claims.
Join this session with Simon Brightwell (nearly four decades in structural and geotechnical testing, investigation and monitoring) to learn how wireless remote monitoring can help surveyors, engineers, contractors and owners to manage construction risk.
Examples will include urban construction, tunnelling and railway undertrack crossings.
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Speaker
Simon Brightwell
With nearly four decades' experience in the delivery and marketing of testing, site investigation, survey and monitoring, Simon has a broad range of experience in the construction and infrastructure sectors.
From the late eighties he was involved in pioneering new applications of non-destructive testing at GB Geotechnics, before jointly forming Aperio Ltd at the time of the transition to digital technologies. This was followed by a decade at global geoscience specialist Fugro, before joining Senceive just as Covid arrived in 2020.
A continuous theme throughout these roles was the use of advanced technology to determine the structural attributes and condition of the built environment. In the early years this involved a lot of fieldwork and some "interesting" experiences hundreds of metres up chimneys, and Saturday nights surveying cold, wet railway tunnels. More recently, it has involved the promotion and marketing of the technologies that help to protect infrastructure and the people that use it.