Applied Technique for Utilizing Total Station in Monitoring Differential Settlement

Abstract

Recently, many problems regarding differential settlement for newly constructed buildings in Fayoum city, Egypt have been monitored. This research presents an applied technique for utilizing total station in observing horizontal and vertical movements happening by time for some building in Fayoum city. The building was monitored for thirty three months divided into three phases. In the first phase, façade of building was observed for four and half months to monitor differential settlement and take the right decision for resolving differential settlement problem. The second phase was the execution of that decision. Time for second phase was four and half months. Finally, in the third phase façade of building was reobserved for two years in order to make sure that the movement of façade points was stopped. The obtained results showed that the used technique provided a powerful and efficient tool to observe movements of façade points by time.