{"id":798,"date":"2015-01-11T17:52:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T01:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/?p=798"},"modified":"2015-01-11T17:56:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T01:56:24","slug":"real-time-monitoring-a-hit-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"Real-Time Monitoring A Hit Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the heart of Brisbane, Australia\u2019s third most populous city,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pobonline.com\/topics\/2763-construction\">construction<\/a>company Watpac Australia Pty. Ltd. has a contract to build a $570-million (US) project in the Southbank cultural precinct that will integrate residential, commercial, hotel and public space with a public transport hub. Southpoint Development will soon be one of the largest mixed-use, transportation-oriented developments (TOD) in Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>The site already includes a very busy railway corridor, a bus tunnel and a historic building. This required Watpac to provide assurances to the owners of those assets \u2014 Queensland Rail, TRANSLink and the South Bank Corporation, respectively \u2014 that the 12-month construction process would not damage them. With this in mind, the company needed a geospatial solution to monitor the work in real time, non-stop, from start to completion, and alert it to any deformation that could lead to a collapse and endanger lives \u2014 so that trains and busses could be stopped before they entered the hub and construction personnel could be evacuated in time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal was to provide a level of assurance that there was no effect on the tunnel or the rail line,\u201d says Dave McIlwraith, a Watpac project manager. \u201cIt was very important to us to provide the stakeholders comfort that what we were doing would not affect their infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Real-Time Monitoring A Hit Down Under\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pobonline.com\/articles\/97501-success-story-real-time-monitoring-down-under\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the heart of Brisbane, Australia\u2019s third most populous city,\u00a0constructioncompany Watpac Australia Pty. Ltd. has a contract to build a $570-million (US) project in the Southbank cultural precinct that will integrate residential, commercial, hotel and public space with a public transport hub. Southpoint Development will soon be one of the largest mixed-use, transportation-oriented developments (TOD) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,25,35,12,21,17,11,58,18,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-feature_articles","category-gis","category-geospatial_topics","category-lidar","category-mapping_and_cartography","category-recent_articles","category-pob","category-sensors","category-surveying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}