Cracks, take the right measures

Saugnac Gauges, the only complete range of instruments to measure very precisely the opening of cracks, their variations and other deformations.

Because materials are not inert, because the ground moves and while living and moving, affects the quality of constructions, their safety, the comfort they procure, there are many structures and constructions which require either constant or occasional monitoring.

This is the primary purpose of Saugnac Gauges: keeping watch. The second purpose of Saugnac Gauges is in helping to manage the “disturbance” to a construction by measuring how it is changing.

Different types of gauges are needed to deal with different types of disturbance.

By adapting the type of gauge to install to the phenomenon to be observed (crack, movement, shift, inclination) and because a phenomenon is poorly understood unless it can be measured, Saugnac Gauges measure over time, worsening, stabilisation and even cycles of evolution. Regular readings are noted on meaningful graphs and define the trends in the disturbance.

Knowledge of the “disturbance” evolution is crucial for repair. These gauges, designed and perfected by Janpierre Saugnac, an expert in the field, provide accurate and practical solutions to problems which, up to now, have been treated at best in a rather unrefined way.

Saugnac Gauges replace once and for all plaster indicators.

It’s the brand for the expert.

Civil engineering and public works

• Numerous bridges • Numerous car parks • Paris and Rennes underground system • Cairo and Athens underground system • Monitoring cliff motions and land slides • Monitoring the lean of retaining walls • Windmill in Luxembourg • Light house in Toulon Harbour • Dry dock in Toulon harbour • Mining subsidence in Moselle • Earthquake damage: Turkey (1999), Taiwan and Italy

Churches and Historical Buildings

• Louvres Museum • Museum of African Arts, Paris • Other museums, the Opera Bastille, Paris • Assezat private mansion in Toulouse • Vaults in national heritage buildings • St Corentin Cathedral, Quimper • The churches of Egligny, Lure, La Forêt Ste Croix, Carbonne etc. • Churches of Rocamadour, Neauphle le Château etc. • Barcelona arena (Spain) • Queen's Palace in Tananarive (Madagascar) • Yamoussoukro Basilica (Ivory Coast) • Bapùon Khmer temple at Angkor (Cambodia) • Fes Medina (Morocco)

Buildings

• Numerous private houses • Numerous private housing estates • Numerous buildings in Paris, France, and abroad • Schools • FIAT tower and other towers in La Défense (Paris) • AZF disaster in Toulouse • Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport • Various buildings in Hong Kong, Douala (Cameroon) and Poland • Various Buildings in Hungary, Japan, Israel • Palaces in Saudi Arabia