High capacity driven piles are being used to support two new bridges that will replace the Tappan ZeeBridge over the Hudson River. Some new piles were driven within 20 feet of the bridge. A monitoring system wasrequired to evaluate the impacts of pile installation. The system was designed to use networked automated totalstations with GPS base stations to overcome the challenge of measuring deflections on the bridge without fixedreference points.
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