Can geo-hazard monitoring be an alternative to structural intervention strategies?

May 9, 2012 - PRLog -- Paolo Mazzanti, CEO, NHAZCA outlines the main differences between the monitoring of manmade structures and natural terrains and discusses whether monitoring could be an alternative to structural intervention strategies.

Construction IQ: What is your main expertise in the field of geo-hazards just to contextualise your background?

P Mazzanti: First of all I am geologist, PhD in earth science and so my main expertise is engineering geology and I’m specialised in natural hazards. During the last five years I experienced several types of natural hazards like tsunamis, subsidences, volcanoes, snow avalanches, but I am mainly an expert on landslides and slope instabilities.

I work on several different topics regarding landslides; landslide analysis, landslide modelling by numerical models and especially monitoring, that is also the topic that I am going to present at a conference, by new technologies; radar technology, laser technologies and especially displacement monitoring in order to assess the stability conditions and slope evolutions. This is my main expertise.
   
Construction IQ: Could you describe the main services provided by your company?

P Mazzanti: My company is mainly dedicated to natural hazards like the acronym of NHAZCA that is Natural Hazard Control and Assessment says. I think that this acronym is very effective in explaining what we do. We provide advanced solutions based on the analysis and modelling of different types of natural hazards. For example, we use radar techniques like ground-based and satellites SAR Interferometry for controlling millimetre displacements of landslides and infrastructures. We develop also numerical models for the analysis of the behaviour of a slope and also the behaviour of structures, like bridge and so on.

In a few words, by a strong effort in research and development, we try to provide continuously new solutions for solving natural hazard problems and for the reduction of the effects related to natural hazards.

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