About the author  ⁄ Jorel Vaccaro, P.E.

Jorel Vaccaro is an engineer with DRPILLA. He can be reached at jorelv@drpilla.com.

During site work and, specifically, underpinning work involving existing buildings, it is best practice to perform monitoring of any buildings in the vicinity that may be influenced by the work. This monitoring includes both optically surveying the existing structures for displacement and installing vibration monitors to continuously monitor and record peak particle velocities.

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