FAQ#087 – Could the IPI, BH Profile and DEX probes have problems in frozen water?

Sisgeo suggest that frozen water within the inclinometer casings is to be avoided due to following reasons: – Ice within the casing will affect functionality of the systems by blocking the individual probes;– Mechanical damages can occur to the probes, but also to the inclinometer casing due to the expansion of frozen water In any […]

FAQ#081 – Quelle est la longueur maximum du câble pour les sondes DEX et DEX-S?

La longueur maximum du câble de la sonde DEX jusqu’à l’enregistreur est de 200m. Si le système d’acquisition automatique des données inclut une boîte multiplexeur externe, la longueur maximum du câble est de 200m de la sonde DEX à la boîte multiplexeur et encore 200m depuis la boîte multiplexeur jusqu’à l’OMNIAlog (400m au total).

Egnatia Odos Road – Athens, Greece

Egnatia Motorway was designed to the specifications of the Trans-European road network. Across Epirus and Northern Greece from Igoumenitsa to Evros, Egnatia Motorway is one of the largest road construction projects in Europe, 670 kilometres long and 24.5 metres wide.The realisation of this motorway requires the construction of: 50 road interchanges; 350 entrance / exit […]

FAQ#031 – Le système DEX est-il adapté pour les applications fixes?

Le système DEX a été conçu pour la surveillance automatique du tassement du sol (mouvements verticaux) dans les lieux où personne n’est présent sur place. Le système DEX est composé d’une chaîne de sondes DEX installées à l’intérieur d’un tube inclinomètre en ABS. Le DEX-S, qui combine un inclinomètre et une sonde de tassement, permet […]

Athens Metro, Greece

A new, modern, fast, comfortable, reliable and safe transport mode has been gradually been in operation since January 2000. Today, 23 Metro Stations are in operation at both METRO lines: Line 2 SEPOLIA – AGHIOS DIMITRIOS/ALEXANDROS PANAGOULIS (red Line) and Line 3. The whole Project is divided into: The Stations of the Base Project: MONASTIRAKI-ETHNIKI […]

Cantanghel idraulic tunnel, access tunnel and main tunnels – Italy

Project Name: Martignano Tunnel Purpose of the project: Variant of S.S.47 “Valsugana” Project location: Italy – Trento Client: TOTO Costruzioni Spa – Italy Contractor: Provincia di Trento – Italy Tunnel Type: Double highway tunnel Excavation method: TBM machine Total length: About 4.200 meter Tunnel diameter: 12 meter End of construction: December 2006

Marmaray Tunnel, Turkey

The Marmaray Project is the upgrading of approximately 76 kilometers of commuter rail system in Istanbul, connecting Halkalı on the European side with Gebze on the Asian side with an uninterrupted, modern, high-capacity commuter rail system. This Project is one of the major transportation infrastructure projects in the world at present.

Genova Underground Station – Italy

This section of the Genoa subway will improve the transportation to both the Old Genoa Harbour Exhibition Centre and the new Aquarium, improving in the meantime both traffic conditions and the re-organisation of the surface transport network. Works have required important preliminary soil consolidation works and were executed in a heavily populated urban area, without […]

Brescia Metro Italy

In a northern Italian city named Brescia there is one of the most innovative and complex project of the country: a public railway line of about 14 Km longer, that pass through the historical centre of the city. The progress in opening of all the sites and building obtained nowadays show a general situation of […]

Chuquicamata Mine (Codelco), Chile

Chuquicamata is an opencast copper mine, where a relatively poor copper ore is mined in impressive huge amounts. Modern mining and smelting technology allows the usage of such depostits at unrivaled low costs. The ore contains only between 1,13% and 1,18% metals, most of it copper, but also molybdenum and selenium in a very low […]

Komayestan Dam, I.R. of Iran

Project Name: Komayestan Dam Purpose of the project: Irrigation Project location: IRAN – Khorasan- Sabzevar Client: Khorasan Regional Water Authority Contractor: Kahar –e- Khorasan CO. Dam Type: Concrete gravity dam Height above foundation: 34.5 m Crest length: 835 m Capacity of the Reservoir: 1,200,000 m3 End of construction: February 2002