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Weather Monitoring

Why would a mine or large construction site want to monitor weather? These operations already have a mountain of monitoring requirements – noise, vibration, dust, water quality, etc, etc – why would they voluntarily want to add another? Well it turns out that there are

Dust monitoring made easy!

As a logical extension of our vision for environmental monitoring made simple, Texcel is adding dust monitoring to its suite of full-spectrum monitoring services. This addition is a direct response to inquiries from our customer base in the mining, quarrying, construction and infrastructure industries. As

Let them eat cake!

What do you do at work that could possibly be more important than sharing birthday cake with your office colleagues? Lots of things? You’re probably right, but that doesn’t mean that eating cake together isn’t important.   Strong social connections make people feel happier There

The Independent Expert

The “independent expert” – what does that even mean? The “independent” bit is fairly easy – you cannot be independent of the organisation for whom you work. To be independent, you must work outside the organisation to whom you are making this claim. If you

Our kitchen is clean. Does it matter? I say “yes”!

“This has got to be the cleanest office kitchen I have ever seen! And it’s always clean – not just on Mondays!”   These words drew attention to what I first thought was an insignificant aspect of life at Texcel. Sure, the kitchen was clean,

Performance Specifications of Vibration Monitors

This article is part 3 of a series dealing with data integrity. The first part discussed the importance of calibration in insuring data integrity, while the second part dealt with the importance of mounting sensors properly. This article will discuss the performance specifications of vibration

Noise Monitoring & Sound Level Meters – An Introduction

We hear you! In response to many enquiries from the mining, quarrying, construction, and infrastructure industries, here is session 101 on Sound Level Meters and noise measurement. The general theme is, while we respect the need to comply with noise and vibration management plans, we

Near-Field Blast Monitoring

Make more of your GTM monitor Your GTM monitor can be used for much more than compliance monitoring. Even we have to admit that compliance monitoring, important as it may be, is pretty boring stuff! Here is an example of a much more intellectually challenging

Data Integrity and Vibration Monitoring

Have you ever thought about the accuracy of any of the environmental data you collect? To take a specific example, how accurate is the vibration data you collect? Surprisingly, we almost never ask this question. After all, we spend good money purchasing that vibration monitor

Environmental monitoring on Gold Rush history

Texcel has been given a unique opportunity to play an important role in the preservation of Australia’s gold rush history in the Queensland Heritage Register listed town of Ravenswood.   Texcel ETM monitors have been deployed to monitor vibrations on three historic chimneys and some

Why is recalibration important?

Recalibration of compliance instrumentation is often an overlooked activity, but like any technical instrument, the accuracy degrades over time.  Most people view recalibration as (at best!) an inconvenience – interrupting the normal workload. However, readings from any electronic measurement device drift over time, and if

How Strategic Environmental Monitoring Can Benefit Your Construction Project – PART 2

In part 1 we looked at some generic aspects of environmental monitoring in which we raised the concept of using your collected data to actually assist your operation – rather than using it to simply tick some compliance boxes. In this second part we want