When Carole King crooned the words “I feel the earth move under my feet,” we can be fairly certain she wasn’t singing about standing on a freeway overpass. And for that we can thank, at least in part, geotechnical engineers — civil engineers who monitor soil and rock conditions at construction sites to ensure a sturdy build.
Highway engineers have their work cut out for them. They contend with outdoor elements, carry bulky equipment and collect an enormous amount of geotechnical data each day in order to make important decisions about structural stability. But at the site of a 67-mile interstate freeway expansion in southwestern Indiana, fieldworkers are using a bundled geotechnical solution built on the Nautiz X7 rugged PDA from Handheld — and they’ve discovered how much simpler, safer and more efficient their jobs can be with rugged mobile technology.