HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING STRUCTURES

A hydraulic structure is a facility designed for using water resources, as well as controlling the destructive effect of water. A dam, a hydroelectric power station, a drainage station, a drainage channel or, for example, a shipping lock can act in its role. Such buildings require careful monitoring according to various standards and regulations prescribed in GOST R 55260.1.4-2012 in order to avoid all types of emergency situations.

Organizing monitoring the safety of hydraulic structures is a whole set of procedures with two primary objectives. The specialists responsible for its implementation must, firstly, ensure the safety of third parties and the environment, and secondly, predict and prevent any emergency situations.

It is possible to cope with such large-scale tasks through:

• collecting and accumulating reliable information about the technical condition and defects of the facility;
• performing comprehensive assessments of the compliance of the building key components with safety regulations;
• engineering study of technologies and methods for engineering protection of the facility with parallel calculation of the cost of repair and reconstruction work;
• monitoring and inspections of the allowability of operating buildings in various permitted and critical modes.

It is possible to establish literally continuous and fully automated supervision over a facility through various inspection and monitoring practices.

Any project for monitoring the safety of a hydraulic structure presents a clear scope of work. Data obtained from continuous inspections is subsequently used to create plans for preventing emergency situations and ensuring the normal functioning of the building.