Structural integrity – durability – traffic safety

Inspections of civil engineering structures are conducted in compliance with DIN 1076. They serve to examine and assess civil engineering structures with regard to traffic safety, durability and structural integrity. These inspections are necessary because of the legal duty to maintain road safety, but also for economic reasons: repair work can still be carried out cost-effectively if the need for reconstruction is recognised at an early stage.  A main inspection of civil engineering structures has to be conducted every six years while a lesser inspection has to be done every three years. In addition there is monitoring in the form of annual observations and biannual viewing.

Inspections of civil engineering structures require extensive equipment: survey instruments, electronic distance measuring equipment, layer thickness measuring devices, digital cameras, test kits with specialist tools, spotlight units for hollow parts of bridges or nightly tests on railway bridges, hip waders and much more.