CASE STUDY Sea Wall Monitoring in Dover CLIENT: NETWORK RAIL/COSTAIN THE CHALLENGE Following dramatic damage to the Dover Sea Wall, protecting the railway immediately below the cliffs, Costain urgently required monitoring of the wall whilst piling repairs and reconstruction took place, over some 750m. This involved removing the track and excavating behind the wall. Once the wall was reinstated it was then necessary to monitor the newly laid track to ensure that it was stable and remained within operational guidelines for track geometry and stability. OUR SOLUTION Based upon several successful deployments elsewhere for Network Rail, Costain approached Senceive to provide its high precision wireless tilt sensors as a monitoring solution. These had the advantage of

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