Travelers Vibration Tool - Zonecheck®
Do you have accurate ground vibration monitoring equipment? ZoneCheck is a convenient online tool designed to help predict ground vibration distance.
Already a Travelers customer? Access ZoneCheck via the Travelers Risk Control Portal.
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Estimating ground vibration distance.
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SPEAKER 1: You already know all about how ground vibration can cause damage to surrounding structures. And you're probably aware of that can cause serious profit losses to your job. What you might not know is that Travelers has developed an online tool designed to help introducing Travelers ZoneCheck®.
It's a convenient way to help predict vibration distance. In just a few clicks, it can eliminate guesswork and help you to identify potential losses. Enter a few inputs for the job at hand and then let ZoneCheck make an assessment. It can help in areas where you might logically anticipate a problem, but more importantly in areas that are farther away, where you're less likely to expect issues to occur. Use ZoneCheck to help identify construction vibration influence zones, so that appropriate measures can be taken to safely execute your work.
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Estimating ground vibration distance just got easier
When construction work is occurring, the impacts can be felt beyond the worksite. Travelers' online construction vibration tool, Zonecheck, is designed to help identify potential equipment-generated ground vibration risks. With Zonecheck, Travelers construction customers can complete preconstruction project surveys in real time, either on the job site or from their office.
Understanding the potential risk of property damage is an important aspect of preconstruction surveys.
Zonecheck centralizes industry-recognized ground vibration data for construction equipment by soil types. With just a few inputs, Zonecheck calculates how far ground vibrations can extend to surrounding structures or people.
With Zonecheck, contractors can:
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Establish or refine your strategy for preconstruction surveys.
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Estimate the potential for ground vibration to impact nearby structures or be perceived by occupants.
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Develop measures to help mitigate against damages caused by vibration-generating work.
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Create useful, sharable preconstruction documentation.
Vibration monitoring in Ithaca, NY
Travelers worked with Gorick Construction to use vibration monitoring in Ithaca, NY, to measure and minimize the impact of construction.
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AL GORICK: Gorick Construction was started by my parents Alfred and Stephanie back in 1945, specializing in earthmoving and heavy demolition.
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Various construction sites in Ithaca, New York
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MICHAEL COLEMAN: We were very concerned with the construction site because of the slope and it's at the base of a very steep hill. You had the adjacent properties being very close proximity.
AL GORICK: The vibration travels through the rock and what it could do is it could certainly go into the foundations of the other properties, specifically the bed and breakfast right next door.
MICHAEL COLEMAN: One of our major concerns was the relationship that the builder had, the developer coming into Ithaca, which is a very tight-knit community surrounding Cornell University. They wanted to put on a good impression.
KEN WENGERT: The lab has a wide range of resources in a variety of different areas. We were able to schedule a screen-sharing conference call to provide some guidance around pre-construction surveys, vibration monitoring, project documentation, and really put the science to vibration damage prevention.
MICHAEL COLEMAN: They did pre-job inspections and photographs and looking at each of the properties and then come up with a plan to minimize the exposure to the properties next door.
JUDY SMITH: During the seismic monitoring whenever the peak particle velocities got to an unacceptable level, they would stop, use a different piece of equipment, a different method, change it so that we never got beyond the peak particle velocities that would create damage. Nothing was damaged. Everything went very well.
MICHAEL COLEMAN: If you have a loss, you're going to have the project shut down, which you're going to have a builder's risk issue. You're going to have potentially liquidated damages. You're also going to have loss of rents and income. Those dollars are untold. It would be 20% to 30% of the project, I think if you had a situation where you brought it down. This is a $16 million hard-cost project. You're looking at $4 or $5 million just with adjacent property damage at least.
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AL GORICK: I think when we can bring more to the table, try to mitigate future problems. And when the projects go smoothly, we believe that owners look at that and want to bring us back again.
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