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The Civil Engineering Building was built between 2017 and 2019 to provide new office and laboratory space for the Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge, and to house the National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing (NRFIS). During the construction, monitoring systems using distributed fibre optic sensing (DFOS) and fibre Bragg grating (FBG) technologies were installed in four different parts of the building: ground source heat pump boreholes, the basement raft slab and retaining walls, the structures lab strong floor slab, and the steel columns and beams of one of the building’s load-bearing frames. Software packages to acquire, store, analyse and visualise data in real time were also developed as part of the monitoring systems. The monitoring systems are described in this paper, along with some of the initial data recorded during and soon after construction.
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de Battista, N., Bravo-Haro, M.A., Kechavarzi, C. (2023). Fibre Optic Monitoring Systems in the Cambridge University Civil Engineering Building. In: Rizzo, P., Milazzo, A. (eds) European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring. EWSHM 2022. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 254. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07258-1_9
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