Laing O'Rourke saved up to 12 hours per pour during a 40 day rail occupation at Lilydale on the Level Crossings Removal Project.
A railway occupation is a 24/7 job at the best of times. Throw in a strike and a covid-induced industry-wide lockdown and the need for safe, productivity-improvement gets fast-tracked. Converge automated much of the concrete monitoring with simple-to-use hardware and a mobile app.
Concrete temperature monitoring and converting it into a maturity calculation is the bane of every intern and junior engineer. Its value is worth it due to the speed and accuracy vs sampling cubes/cylinders but is mundane and prone to transcription error on a loud, busy site. Converge’s ConcreteDNA was simple for the team to install day or night
Once covered in concrete, within two hours the team collected temperature data via the mobile phone and the app converted it to strength. Where it really made the difference was the AI-driven strength prediction that allowed for planning between shifts. Saving up to 12 hours vs traditional destructive methods.
It was a special feeling for the team seeing the first train cross the track.
Saving up to 12 hours per pour.
Using wireless concrete sensors reduced site congestion and the risk of manual transcription errors when using traditional thermocouples.