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Risk based bridge data collection and asset management and the role of structural health monitoring
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Bridges Structural Health Monitoring and Deterioration Detection Synthesis of Knowledge and Technology
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Construction safety and digital design: a review
As digital technologies become widely used in designing buildings and infrastructure, questions arise about
their impacts on construction safety. This review explores relationships between construction safety and
digital design practices with the aim of fostering and directing further research. It surveys state-of-the-art
research on databases, virtual reality, geographic information systems, 4D CAD, building information
modeling and sensing technologies, finding various digital tools for addressing safety issues in the
construction phase, but few tools to support design for construction safety. It also considers a literature on
safety critical, digital and design practices that raises a general concern about âmindlessnessâ in the use of
technologies, and has implications for the emerging research agenda around construction safety and digital
design. Bringing these strands of literature together suggests new kinds of interventions, such as the
development of tools and processes for using digital models to promote mindfulness through multi-party
collaboration on safet
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Avoiding structural collapses in refurbishment - a decision support system (HSE research report)
The competences of command cadre of the airport fire service on the example of safety assurance of Warsaw OkÄcie Airport
The globalization process in almost all spheres of our life causes a
possibility of making equal living standards in all countries of the world. An
introduction to globalization was undoubtedly the development of air transport
which greatly accelerated the possibility of travelling on all continents. Along
with the development of technology, airplanes used for carrying people and
cargo become much better, quicker, but they also become more and more
complicated in respect of their construction. This also gives rise to requirements
that airports have to comply with, i.e. in order to receive super modern machines
they must be equipped with modern navigational facilities, modern equipment for
surface handling of airplanes and passengers. This, in turn, requires a
continuous development of knowledge and competence from airport staff to be
flexible in the constantly modernized environment. In consideration of a rapid
development of air transport, and consequently its increasing importance for the
world economy countries face a problem how to assure the high quality of
aviation services, its access for a man-in-the-street, and first of all safety in its
broad meaning, which is a synonym of quality in air transport. Nowadays, this
is the main problem in air transport which has priority before the comfort of a
traveller. Safety in aviation is approached in two dimensions â prevention of
occurrence events and removal of results of unforeseeable incidents, accidents or
catastrophes. A special part in this area is performed by the airport rescue and
firefighting service, commonly called the Airport Fire Service (AFS). The main
requirement for airport rescuers set by the International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO) is conducting rescue and firefighting operations in case of
an aircraft or airport incident (disaster) [...]
Negotiating the 'trading zone'. Creating a shared information infrastructure in the Dutch public safety sector
Our main concern in this article is whether nation-wide information technology (IT) infrastructures or systems in emergency response and disaster management are the solution to the communication problems the safety sector suffers from. It has been argued that implementing nation-wide IT systems will help to create shared cognition and situational awareness among relief workers. We put this claim to the test by presenting a case study on the introduction of ânetcentric workâ, an IT system-based platform aiming at the creation of situational awareness for professionals in the safety sector in the Netherlands. The outcome of our research is that the negotiation with relevant stakeholders by the Dutch government has lead to the emergence of several fragmented IT systems. It becomes clear that a top-down implementation strategy for a single nation-wide information system will fail because of the fragmentation of the Dutch safety sector it is supposed to be a solution to. As the US safety sector is at least as fragmented as its Dutch counterpart, this may serve as a caveat for the introduction of similar IT systems in the US
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