CASE STUDY Railway Embankment: East Midlands CLIENT: NETWORK RAIL/QTS THE CHALLENGE An existing railway embankment retaining wall was highly unstable and had broken in several sections. Network Rail LNE decided to replace it with a new more robust retaining wall constructed of steel rail sections and wooden sleepers. This wall is approximately 100m long. The new wall was to be monitored for movement and in addition they wished to minimise or eliminate unnecessary site visits with a dual system that would allow secondary corroboration of movement with camera images. OUR SOLUTION Senceive’s standard FlatMesh v3 system was installed on the retaining wall with 10 high precision tilt sensors. These were mounted on the top of each wooden wall sections at @

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