👉 THE GIG
We were engaged to scan components of a big ass building to check the concrete cover over the reinforcing bars and produce a report concerning its structural integrity.
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👉 THE TOOLS
Hilti PS1000 concrete scanner,
Hoffcon custom built app to capture scanning data,
PowerBI to pull it all together, and
A can-do attitude.
👉 STARRING
Some guy we used to know.
👉 WHAT WE DID
Our client had concerns about rust spots and exposed reinforcing bars peeking out of concrete beams and columns. They needed to know if they had an issue on their hands, or if everything was fine.
Because we only have normal eyes, we utilised the Hilti PS1000 concrete scanner to meticulously scan the building, floor by floor. We located the reinforcement bars throughout and measured how much concrete cover each one had.
We ended up with a lot of data, collecting over 15,000 scans. The scan data was integrated with our custom-built site app where we uploaded photos and commentary against the various beams and columns.Â
Back in the office during post processing, we automated the extraction of reinforcing bars and their cover from the scans. This meant that we have analysed over 400,000 reinforcing bars. We then linked the results to a 3D model of the building using Power BI. That meant the client could navigate, drill down and isolate specific beams and columns to reveal the scan results and see how much concrete cover existed.
All of this leg work meant we could produce a comprehensive structural report for our client, so they knew the condition of their asset with all the evidence we had collected.
This video (featuring some guy we used to know) is a very condensed edit of months of work from the team in collecting data and then analysing and presenting it in a really innovative way.Â