Full-scale monitoring of bridges, buildings, and transport infrastructure is an emerging and increasingly vital technology — they essentially function as field laboratories. These assets are equipped with sensor systems that capture structural responses—such as accelerations, strains, and displacements—alongside environmental parameters like temperature, wind, and wave. In trains and railways, additional monitoring includes signals from electrical and control systems.

Data are continuously acquired under real operational conditions, enabling assessment of the behavior as felt by the structures. These monitored assets serve as platforms for validating numerical models, developing digital twins, and implementing strategies for condition assessment and structural health monitoring. Furthermore, this infrastructure supports the development and testing of new sensing technologies and data-driven methods under realistic field conditions, offering a direct bridge between research and real-world application.

Our comprehensive experience in structural monitoring extends across many domains and applications:

• Tall timber buildings – Calibration of numerical models and validation of performance
• Steel bridges – Detection of damages, continuous fatigue monitoring for service life estimation
• Long-span suspension bridges – Understanding wind-induced responses and modelling of environmental loads
• Floating bridges –Wave load effects and responses for unconventional structures
• Railway infrastructure – Assessment of track-wheel-train-pantograph interactions and fault detection 
• Pedestrian bridges – Documentation of dynamic responses induced by human loading