Challenge BBMV – Balfour Beatty, Morgan Sindall, VINCI Construction – were awarded the Whitechapel main station contract which is part of the Crossrail project, the largest infrastructure scheme in Europe. As part of the tunnelling construction works at the new Whitechapel station, which is being built for the Elizabeth line, the cutting ran directly underneath […]
Challenge The Thames Tideway Tunnel will provide capture, storage and movement of almost all the sewage and rainwater discharges that currently overflow into the river Thames from central London. The Rotherhithe Tunnel sits in close proximity to the Tideway East shaft site. CVB (Costain, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche), along with Sixense as […]
Challenge June 2018 marked the start of an exciting redevelopment of the prestigious Royal College of Music (RCM) campus, which was first opened in 1882. The large courtyard will be dug out and a new basement and building is planned to go in its place. Due to the total mass of the building and the […]
EL RETO El Cremallera de Montserrat une la población de Monistrol de Montserrat con el emblemático Monasterio, en un recorrido de 5km, salvando un fuerte desnivel de 550m. Debido a las fuertes variaciones de temperatura experimentadas entre verano e invierno, tanto la vía como el cremallera, sufren movimientos. Para mitigar estos movimientos, se instalan […]
Challenge Senceive’s wireless solutions for mining provide automatic, long-life, robust, reliable and near-real time monitoring. The ability to monitor multiple parameters using our sensor interface range provides “big-data” for a site and all the information required to aid prediction of failure and prevent catastrophes. The low power system primarily allows remote structural/geotechnical monitoring to help […]
Challenge The Dortmund to Münster railway line is one of Germany’s major train lines. During the end of 2018 a major fissure appeared along a 100m stretch of embankment, which ran parallel to the rail line. There was much concern and it was deemed necessary to deploy an emergency monitoring system to investigate further, eliminate […]
Challenge On a November Friday, emergency services were called to the Rue Cujas in the historic centre of Toulouse where the roof of an unoccupied three-storey building had collapsed. The street was closed immediately. Sixty firefighters secured the area and searched for possible trapped victims with the help of trained dogs. Before the end of […]
Challenge In 1971, the Principality of Monaco agreed to a €30 m development project on the richest part of Monte Carlo’s gold coast: the Complexe Immobilier des Spelugues. The complex was built over the Boulevard Louis II road on 15 metre concrete columns, with its hotel, convention centre and apartments overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The […]
Introducción Aunque los sensores inalámbricos existen desde hace ya algunos años, la adopción de los mismos en el ámbito de la geotecnia es mucho más reciente. Supone un reto tecnológico desarrollar una solución verdaderamente robusta con sensores precisos y estables, con una larga duración de las baterías y una transmisión de los datos al usuario […]
