Abstract
With regards to populational growth, the best areas for construction in urban areas have already been occupied.
As a result, the only remaining spaces are those between pre-existing structures and sites with poor geotechnical characteristics, with building requalification being a sustainable alternative. However, when the construction work takes place in city centres there is an increased risk of accidents that may affect the neighbourhood infrastructures during the process. One way to minimise those accidents is increasing the construction safety; therefore, it is important and essential to implement an adequate monitoring plan to anticipate hazardous
situations on the work site and/or in the surrounding area. The field monitoring must be implemented by the project designer, considering the intrinsic characteristics of each work, but this plan can sometimes be generic or non-existent. The aim of this paper is to present guidelines to planning an instrumentation program using geotechnical instrumentation, which will serve as a basis for futures works in urbanized areas. The main objective is to integrate several types of pre-existent methodologies and technologies to improve field
instrumentation and monitoring of building construction sites in urban areas.
As a result, the only remaining spaces are those between pre-existing structures and sites with poor geotechnical characteristics, with building requalification being a sustainable alternative. However, when the construction work takes place in city centres there is an increased risk of accidents that may affect the neighbourhood infrastructures during the process. One way to minimise those accidents is increasing the construction safety; therefore, it is important and essential to implement an adequate monitoring plan to anticipate hazardous
situations on the work site and/or in the surrounding area. The field monitoring must be implemented by the project designer, considering the intrinsic characteristics of each work, but this plan can sometimes be generic or non-existent. The aim of this paper is to present guidelines to planning an instrumentation program using geotechnical instrumentation, which will serve as a basis for futures works in urbanized areas. The main objective is to integrate several types of pre-existent methodologies and technologies to improve field
instrumentation and monitoring of building construction sites in urban areas.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 11th International Symposium on Field Monitoring in Geomechanics |
| Editors | Andrew Ridley |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) |
| Pages | 1-6 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
| Event | International Symposium on Field Monitoring in Geomechanics - Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom Duration: 4 Sept 2022 → 7 Sept 2022 Conference number: 11 https://www.issmge.org/publications/online-library?database=80&conference=112&authors%5B%5D=167808 |
Conference
| Conference | International Symposium on Field Monitoring in Geomechanics |
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| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | London |
| Period | 4/09/22 → 7/09/22 |
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Keywords
- Geotechnical instrumentation
- Construction monitoring
- Urban excavation work