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Our own analysis of how ground moves, what it costs, and where to look next.
Why Shrinking Clay Has Become Europe's Most Expensive Quiet HazardEurope's costliest ground-movement hazard is also its least visible: clay soils that swell in the wet and shrink in drought, loading foundations season after season until a wall gives way.
Landslide Susceptibility: Seeing Slope Instability Before It MovesSlopes creep for years before they fail. Satellite radar measures that creep while it is still millimetres, turning susceptibility from a map of where into a measurement of when.
Buckled Columns in Midtown Manhattan: Managing Structural-Integrity RiskA structural scare in a Midtown high-rise, and what measuring a building's own movement from orbit tells you that an inspection after the fact cannot.
The Sustainability Case for Satellite Remote Sensing in Infrastructure ManagementSustainability in infrastructure is usually argued over what gets built. The longer question is what it takes to keep it standing for the next fifty years.
Why Infrastructure Safety Demands a Whole-System View of RiskEngineering failures build gradually, through small stresses and interdependencies no single sensor was placed to catch. The case for assessing a system rather than its parts.