What it tells the engineer
Instruments installed in the ground track how it responds to construction: settlement markers and plates, inclinometers for lateral movement, and piezometers for groundwater pressure.
Instrumentation and monitoring
Monitoring of settlement, ground movement and groundwater conditions. Select the instruments and reading schedule for the investigation or construction works.
When it is used
Embankments on soft ground, deep excavations, slopes, and structures next to construction works.
How a job runs
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Brief
Your site, the structure and what the design needs to know.
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Plan
Test locations, methods and the reporting you need.
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Fieldwork
Testing, drilling and sampling on site by our field team.
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Report
Logs, plots and test results for your engineer.
Typical outputs
- Instrument installation records
- Baseline and periodic readings
- Trend plots against your alert levels
- Monitoring reports
Questions
How often are readings taken?
The schedule follows the construction stage and the project's monitoring plan; we agree it with you before installation.
Tests in this family
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Inclinometer Monitoring
Inclinometer monitoring records changes in inclination to assess lateral movement with depth. Results support…
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Piezometer Monitoring
Piezometer monitoring measures groundwater level or pore-water pressure, depending on the instrument. The typ…
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Ground Settlement Monitoring
Settlement markers and plates read over time to track ground movement.
