Monitoring Solutions

Structural Monitoring

Paul Drummond

Monitoring SolutionsOpportunities: Broad benefits

• Data driven decisions:– Timely advice: Understand your risk, advise those who need to

know

• Municipal disaster strategy– Plan evacuation strategy for city disaster planning

– Place core functions in safe locations

• Faster reoccupation– Reduced decision time after business interruption

– Reduce lost labour and opportunity costs

• Insurance Risk management– Data for industry

– Options for new products

• Managers and Tenants– Differentiate your commercial property

– Rent/own a safe workplace for your staff

• Assurance for Essential services– Keep city core services running

– Continue economic stability for business and residents

Monitoring SolutionsA sensored building delivers

• Energy– Earthquake, weather, load

• Performance– Of engineered components,

structure

• Impact– Risks? Next steps?

• Communicate– Alarms, email, lights, visualisation

Monitoring SolutionsTrimble NZ construction elements

• Performance based design

– Low damage timber building

– Sensor communicate state

Monitoring Solutions

• Installed at Trimble NZ

Structural monitoring system

SensorsRaw data and data storage

Intuitive visualisation of important data

Monitoring SolutionsStructural monitoring system

• Understand thresholds, make decisions fast

– Non technical stakeholders can make quick informed decisions through traffic lights colour coding and status light

Monitoring SolutionsParallels

• Fire system

– One time use? Hopefully zero!

– Insurance claim

– Site basic handling by staff, sensors warn, advanced handling by experts

• Security

– As above

• Seismic

– Being out costs Trimble $80,000NZD per day in labour (@2014)

Monitoring SolutionsOpportunities

• New build or retrofit possible– Install per NZ engineer recommendation– Simple and advance models possible– Guidance available locally (CA example right)

• Real data for lifecycle management– Evaluate peak event threshold considering aging– Structure resilience over time– Guided management: 6D BIM

• New information for industry– New data for insurance industry products– New building resilience information– New construction techniques analysis– New 6D BIM information– New Sensing City (smart city) products enabled

• All happening in San Francisco– Regulation allows sensor to speed inspection– Building Occupancy Resumption Program (BORP)

Monitoring SolutionsContact

• Paul Drummond

• +64 21 243 7963

• Trimble NZ office

– 11-15 Birmingham Drive, Middleton, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand.

– -43.545116, 172.592158 Google Maps

• See also: Story of Trimble instrumenting San Francisco General Hospital at http://trl.trimble.com/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-707667/022506-195_SanFranHosp_CS_0314_LR.pdf