Seismics and the City – Creating a Greater Christchurch – Envisioning. Engaging. Energising was held on 27th March 2015, Christchurch.
Seismically Smart Buildings: Learning from the past, setting the standard for the future.
2. Monitoring Solutions
Opportunities: Broad benefits
• Data driven decisions:
– Timely advice: Understand your risk, advise those who need to
know
• Municipal disaster strategy
– Plan evacuation strategy for city disaster planning
– Place core functions in safe locations
• Faster reoccupation
– Reduced decision time after business interruption
– Reduce lost labour and opportunity costs
• Insurance Risk management
– Data for industry
– Options for new products
• Managers and Tenants
– Differentiate your commercial property
– Rent/own a safe workplace for your staff
• Assurance for Essential services
– Keep city core services running
– Continue economic stability for business and residents
3. Monitoring Solutions
A sensored building delivers
• Energy
– Earthquake, weather, load
• Performance
– Of engineered components,
structure
• Impact
– Risks? Next steps?
• Communicate
– Alarms, email, lights, visualisation
4. Monitoring Solutions
Trimble NZ construction elements
• Performance based design
– Low damage timber building
– Sensor communicate state
5. Monitoring Solutions
• Installed at Trimble NZ
Structural monitoring system
Sensors
Raw data and data
storage
Intuitive visualisation of important data
6. Monitoring Solutions
Structural monitoring system
• Understand thresholds, make decisions fast
– Non technical stakeholders can make quick informed decisions
through traffic lights colour coding and status light
7. Monitoring Solutions
Parallels
• Fire system
– One time use? Hopefully zero!
– Insurance claim
– Site basic handling by staff, sensors warn, advanced handling by
experts
• Security
– As above
• Seismic
– Being out costs Trimble $80,000NZD per day in labour (@2014)
8. Monitoring Solutions
Opportunities
• New build or retrofit possible
– Install per NZ engineer recommendation
– Simple and advance models possible
– Guidance available locally (CA example right)
• Real data for lifecycle management
– Evaluate peak event threshold considering aging
– Structure resilience over time
– Guided management: 6D BIM
• New information for industry
– New data for insurance industry products
– New building resilience information
– New construction techniques analysis
– New 6D BIM information
– New Sensing City (smart city) products enabled
• All happening in San Francisco
– Regulation allows sensor to speed inspection
– Building Occupancy Resumption Program (BORP)
9. Monitoring Solutions
Contact
• Paul Drummond
• +64 21 243 7963
• Trimble NZ office
– 11-15 Birmingham Drive, Middleton, Christchurch 8081, New Zealand.
– -43.545116, 172.592158 Google Maps
• See also: Story of Trimble instrumenting San Francisco General Hospital at
http://trl.trimble.com/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-707667/022506-
195_SanFranHosp_CS_0314_LR.pdf