Structural Sensors

Structural sensors monitor movement, deformation, stress and strain in buildings, civil engineering works and historic structures.

A wide range of sensor types allows monitoring solutions to be tailored to specific technical challenges and budgets.

They are commonly installed when construction or excavation works take place on or near existing structures, ensuring structural integrity is maintained. Structural sensors are also used for long-term monitoring to track structural health over time and inform targeted maintenance strategies.

By supporting proactive maintenance and performance assessment, structural sensors contribute to effective lifecycle management and broader sustainability objectives.

Typical applications for structural sensors:

Measure performance of key structural elements during construction, upgrade, extension, or decommission projects
Protect existing structures during adjacent construction works
Tracking of known structural issues, to inform repair and upgrade works
Monitor long-term performance and change over time (structural health monitoring) to enable targeted maintenance and increased service life

In the context of long-term monitoring, these sensors enable:

Structural health monitoring as the basis for targeted maintenance and repair
The potential extends to the lifespan of the structure
Verification of structural integrity following a natural disaster or unanticipated event (earthquake, fire, vehicle accident or extreme climatic event)
Empirical evidence to support the optimization of new designs for similar structures (thereby reducing the cost and environmental footprint)

The following structural monitoring sensors are commonly used:

Strain Gauges
Displacement Transducers
Crack Meters
Tilt Sensors / Inclinometers
Accelerometers
Vibration Sensors
Cyclops ATS and Monitoring Prisms
GNSS Sensors
Laser Distance Meters
Fiber Optic Sensors
Load Cells
Temperature Sensors
Acoustic Emission Sensors

Monitoring with structural sensors allows you to:

Achieve short- or long-term monitoring of structural change
Limit interruptions to the operation of a structure following a climate event or accident
Protect structures against adjacent construction activity
Better understand the behavior of a structure
Extend the service life of structures and optimize their maintenance costs
Manage sustainability and resilience of assets

The benefits of using our structural monitoring services

Cutting-edge expertise

gained from more than 20 years of on-site experience and in-house development

Dedicated local teams

an extensive network of skilled instrumentation engineers and technicians

A turnkey service

from sensor installation to processed data, alarms and reports available in Beyond Monitoring

Structural know-how

allowing intelligent interpretation of measurement data, and to identify anomalies

Data quality control

driven by proactive maintenance to ensure that measurements are accurate and actionable

Access to our vast sensor network

we partner with the world's leading sensor suppliers, to bring you the best quality sensors at the best price