A new technology has been introduced to help civil engineers collect data and build good roads that can last longer.
The machine is called Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). This equipment is used to identify things beneath the earth’s surface.
Allan Aoba Keagamo of Mckoinal engineering made a presentation on this technology at the NCDC City Hall in Port Moresby yesterday.
Present to witness the presentation of the GPR technology were NCDC engineers and media personnel.
NCDC engineers listened attentively to the presentation by Allan Keagamo of Mckonal engineering.
Mr Keagamo explained that the GPR machine will be mounted on a vehicle and when driving around, you can look through the surface of the earth on the screen and find out the cause of the deteriorating road.
He further said the new technology rays are going to be sent down into the ground to collect data beneath road pavements to identify the fault.
“It’s a new technology and equipment that is going to be used for collecting raw data; basically we’ve been using the old method of collecting data on the surface of the road and not beneath,” said Keagamo.
“These are some of the technology which is not available so we are trying to bring it here to teach our local engineers. They can adapt and utilize it to fix our roads,” Keagamo said.
The technology will help construction companies to build good roads that can last longer using the information collected.
Mr Keagamo also mentioned the cost of this technology and other benefits of it.
“The software comes in a full package with equipment. It costs less than five million kina which includes equipment, software and training of engineers,” Keagamo said.
Living in the technological world, such equipment is very vital as it will save time and cost for engineer’s to collect data for road construction and maintenance.
