🎥 Launching gantries & lifting frames: Live monitoring for improved safety and productivity
Launching gantries and lifting frames are massive, costly and highly technical — and critical equipment for any bridge deck erection project. Any failure of this type of equipment can have drastic consequences for human lives and project programmes.
VSL and Bouygues Travaux Publics took advantage of the High-Speed Railway 2 (HS2) project in the United Kingdom to develop a smart solution combining sensors, data acquisition and live data management to closely monitor the launching gantry onsite, providing instantaneous data for operating and troubleshooting the equipment, also to generate automatic reports to monitor cycles and performance.
The sensors are numerous (video, GPS, loads, positioning, pressure, proximity sensors, anti-collision sensors…) and offer access to assess a wide range of data, which can be stored for long term use and also reported live via a detailed and user-friendly digital interface. This technology improves safety, provides accurate and systematic data, and is accessible everywhere, enabling teams to collaborate closely to monitor and improve productivity.
Data is also retained for future analysis, to assist with continuous improvement of performance.
Jean-Marie Laurens, Director of Civil Works Business Line, says:
“Until now, operators and engineers had to go onto the bridge deck and the launching gantry to gather all the data, which took a lot of time, increased the risk of accidents and was also prone to errors in the reading and reporting of data. This new technology brings a huge number of benefits and will now be used on all our projects.”
🎥 Watch the video below 😉
