Stories

Here you will find examples on how our customers have benefitted from using the INFRA system in their construction site monitoring projects. Thanks to the versatility of the system, you can measure many different types of environmental impact such as vibration, noise and dust.

Assisting the Emirate of Fujairah in vibration control

Biggest port in United Arab Emirates Fujairah Port is the second largest bunke-ring port in the world. Its strategic location on the eastern seaboard of…

Blasting without problems in sensitive quarries? – A contractor in Haninge, Stockholm found the answer

Blasting bed-rock for mining near populated areas requires vibration measurement. If you need to blast in the same place for a number of years, measurement…

Californian break-through for efficient noise and vibration monitoring

The joint venture SSH (Skanska-Shimmick-Herzog) was awarded the prestigious design-build contract for the BART extension to Berryessa, including line, track, systems and stations. The project-wide…

Connecting Copenhagen’s new waterfront city

The Nordhavnen metro line to be opened in 2019 In Copenhagen, Denmark a large industrial port is now being transformed into a super-modern waterfront city…

Deutschland – Kundenfälle

Sie möchten mehr darüber erfahren, wie unsere Kunden die Sigicom Messsysteme einsetzen? Hier finden Sie interessante Kurzberichte über Projekte in Deutschland, bei denen das INFRA-System…

Fully integrated environmental monitoring system

The Northern Line Extension project is the first major infrastructure scheme to use the fully integrated Sigicom environmental monitoring system in the UK. The web…

Getec in a large British measurement project

London Dock, close to the Tower of London was once the hub of the British trade with satin, coffee, tea, tobacco and other luxury goods….

Long time measurements for the Godfather of Noise

A witty journalist once called Stig Ingemansson the “Godfather of Noise”. In the mid-1950s, he specialized in noise and vibration elimination. Today, ÅF-Ingemansson (a part…

Monitoring dust, noise and vibration via one interface

“We even keep track of the weather at the building site” At noon traffic is intense and business brisk at London’s world famous shopping artery….

Multi-monitoring methods nominated to considerate constuctors scheme

Temple Group in prestigious tunneling project Members of the UK based FLO consortium have nominated the methods used for noise and vibration monitoring in a…

New generation INFRA equipment changes everything

Change batteries every 6 months The economics of field monitoring is, more than anything, related to the need for human involvement. This is why many…

Northern Line Extension 3 years on

Enabling regeneration London is a vibrant and expending city and as such has ever increasing demands on it’s transportation infrastructure. The Northern Line Extension is…

Reduced noise levels critical to Hagfors Steel Mill. investments

– Correct measurements clear the way for the right environmental investments. Uddeholm’s steel works in Hagfors, Sweden is the main source of income locally, but…

Securing comfort in spite of vibrations caused by trains

Comfortable living – essential for attracting new residents Bollebygd, a small community in southeast of Sweden, has plans for new dwellings near a rail line….

Sound Level Measurement in High Detail

In Sweden’s second largest city of Gothenburg, heavy construction and blasting are taking place as a new underground railway is being built under the central…

The consultant company Grontmij wins large subway construction order thanks to the INFRA-system

Measuring vibrations and noise and accounting for the measurement data afterwards is no longer sufficient for sensitive infrastructural projects. The INFRA-system allows active “live” monitoring…

The incredible one-man band

Tony manages 100+ monitors – 350 kms apart! After studying acoustics and vibrations Tony Larsson got his engineering degree in 2004. The same year he…

The quiet life in Chalampé

How Solvay responded to noise complaints Settled in Alsace (France), Solvay’s Chalampé plant is a leading European producer of Polyamide 6.6 and intermediate products. Its…

The ultimate sound check

Remote audio measuring and reporting The music scene in the Finnish capital is very lively – and sometimes very loud. A varied mix of concerts…

Tunnel Blasting in Italy – Challenging conditions

One of the larger road construction projects in Europe today is a new motorway system in the Italian regions of Marche and Umbria. The four…

Two people monitoring 20 construction sites

Good vibrations for Rambölls in Karlstad Today, vibration monitoring is a widely applied routine precaution to avoid structural damages and environmental disturbance, and not just…

Whose noise is it anyway? ÅF separates the noise sources in a complicated sound environment

The sound environment surrounding scrap metal recycling company Ragn-Sell’s facility in the city of Västerås is a complicated one. The municipality requires regular noise control,…

Winning projects with INFRA measurement system

Climate change leads to more and more torrential rain in Denmark. Flooding where rainwater gets mixed with sewage causes great damage. Therefore water-related projects today…