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Trace Metrix

About

Built around real building questions.

Trace Metrix brings sensors and dashboards to building investigation. It is being developed by the people behind Trace Surveys, with a practical aim: make changing conditions easier to see and the next decision easier to explain.

Surveys and monitoring

A survey captures a moment. Monitoring adds the record between visits.

Together, they give building owners, managers and surveyors more context for deciding what to check next.

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A Trace Surveys rope-access surveyor water testing a facade above a London railway bridge.
Rope-access facade water testing. Photograph © Trace Surveys Ltd.

Principles

Three things we hold to.

  • 01

    Measure with purpose

    Every sensor position should relate to a question someone needs answered.

  • 02

    Keep the context

    Readings stay with the site, the device and the notes that explain them.

  • 03

    Make the evidence usable

    Charts, summaries and reports are built to be read and explained, not just stored.

In the field

Work on real buildings.

Trace Metrix draws on the practical building-investigation experience of the team behind Trace Surveys. A selection of Trace Surveys investigations, from roof and façade testing to work inside buildings.

  • A surveyor kneeling on a flat roof, feeding a probe beside an open instrument case showing traces on screen.
    Roof investigation using a probe and portable instrument.
  • A surveyor holding a handheld thermal camera towards a building elevation on a cold day.
    Thermal camera survey of a building elevation.
  • A surveyor crouching to test a pipe connection at floor level with a portable instrument on the ground.
    Testing at a pipe connection inside a building.
  • A handler walking a working dog on a lead along the edge of an empty stadium pitch.
    Survey work at a stadium.
Film, 16 seconds, no sound: a surveyor moves a wheeled survey trolley across a wet roof car park deck.
Film, 13 seconds, no sound: a compact survey robot moves beneath roof-mounted equipment.

Photography and film © Trace Surveys Ltd. Films have no sound; the captions describe what they show.

Hardware in development

Where the hardware stands

The dashboard is in use. The modular sensor nodes, probes and hub are in development, starting with temperature and relative humidity.

See the sensors

Tell us what you need to understand.

Discuss a monitoring project