13th Ocotober 2014
Met Geo Environmental is proud to be one of the key partners in the FP7 RPBHEALTEC project ‘Road Pavements & Bridge Deck Health Monitoring / Early Warning Using Advanced Inspection Technologies’ led by the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, City University London (CITY).
The project addresses one of the main challenges affecting safety and competitiveness of the European Road Network, which is undoubtedly one of the most important land infrastructures in the EU.
It is and will remain for the foreseeable future a crucial artery for Europe, both in economic terms, as it services the vas majority of goods traffic, and in social terms, as it does so for passenger travel as well.
Maintenance is considered to be the most expensive function of a high-way operating agency, so there is a special need for the early detection of deterioration mechanisms and of potential presence of defects through a more advanced road pavements inspection technology.
FP7 RPBHEALTEC will develop a high quality, cost efficient NDT inspection system which will detect the presence of defects, determine the cause, extent and rate of deterioration, provide information for assessing stability and serviceability and for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of various remedial measures and provide this information in real time, not causing traffic disturbances.
It follows our recent collaboration with the British Standards Institute development of
PAS128, the new Specification for Underground Utility Detection, Verification and Location.
We look forward to bringing you further updates on FP7 RPBHEALTEC over the coming months. In the meantime for further information, please visit www.fp7-rpbhealtec.org.