Course Info

Learning objectives

• 1. Understand all stakeholders drives and be able to communicate with them in relation to monitoring.
• 2. Learn how to write comprehensive specifications within the different procurement methods
• 3. How to manage monitoring systems on site.
• 4. How to make the best use of the collected data.
• 5. The state-of-the-art monitoring techniques.
• 6. How the instruments work during the hands-on sessions (the difference between datasheets and actual performance).
• 7. Work with other professionals in the field and establish invaluable contacts.

Who should attend?

• Practicing engineers who are involved in performance monitoring in any capacity (Consultants, Contractors, Instrumentation Specialists and Clients)
• Clients who want to understand the value of monitoring and how can be best procured.
• Researchers who are interested in what the state of art in research and development is
• Insurance industry professionals working in the Built Environment 
  

Course director

Raul Fuentes, EUR ING, MSc, Ingeniero, Civiling. MIDA, CEng MICE, Lecturer, UCL Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, Chadwick Building, GM14, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT

t: (+44) 020 7679 1570 email: r.fuentes@ucl.ac.uk

Course organisers

Raul Fuentes

Lecturer, UCL, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering

Nick Slater, Business Development Manager, itmsoil 

Bell Lane, Uckfield, East Sussex, TN22 1QL, United Kingdom

Course technical consultant

Dr Richard Bassett

Emeritus Reader, UCL, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering

Technical reference / course textbook

A Guide to Field Instrumentation in Geotechnics: Principles, Installation and Reading 

Richard Bassett. Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011.