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Vibration monitoring systems, simple hire or fully managed

Piling, breaking, compaction, and demolition all send vibration beyond your site boundary. It only takes one crack in an adjacent building to stop a site in its tracks. Our construction vibration monitoring gives you continuous, real-time vibration data, so you can prove compliance and protect the structures around you.

As part of our environmental monitoring solutions, we offer both portable and continuous vibration monitoring, positioned at neighbouring properties, sensitive structures and site boundaries. You can hire the equipment on its own, or go fully managed and our team handles everything for you.

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Active vibration monitoring, not just equipment

Choose our fully managed service and our monitoring team actively watches your vibration data throughout the hire, so rising levels get spotted as they happen, not after the complaint arrives.

Alerts handled by our team

If vibration approaches or breaches your site’s trigger levels, our engineers are alerted, send over the details, and if there’s an issue on site, they’ll come out and resolve it.

Dedicated engineering support

From siting monitors and setting PPV trigger levels to reporting for your local authority, our monitoring engineers support you throughout, with advice grounded in BS 5228-2 and years of site experience.

Vibration monitoring for BS 5228-2 and planning compliance

Planning conditions on urban projects routinely require vibration monitoring to BS 5228-2, with PPV trigger levels set to protect neighbouring buildings, heritage structures, and sensitive equipment.

Our monitors log ground-borne vibration continuously against those thresholds. All of this data is available 24/7 through Insite, ready for local authority submissions and complaint investigations.

Portable and continuous vibration monitoring hire

For short-duration works like piling or breaking, our Portable Vibration Monitor mobilises in minutes and moves around site as the work does.

For longer programmes, continuous monitoring runs unattended for the full hire. Our engineers can handle installation, calibration, and swap-outs throughout.

Vibration monitoring for demolition projects

Demolition puts more energy into the ground than almost any other site activity, and neighbouring structures feel it first. We regularly monitor vibration on demolition projects alongside noise and dust, giving you one environmental monitoring package and one point of contact. See how it works in practice in our demolition monitoring case study.