One of the tasks in the final period of the project LIFE-Photoscaling is the placing of the chosen material on the pilot site, José Antonio de Armona street, being Bernardino Obregón street its reference surface. Before performing this, staff from Institute Eduardo Torroja and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) surveyed the neighbours from the district -you can answer the survey in this link– appart from […]
After the cleaning performed by the Madrid City Council, we have collected the leachates.
We continue simulating real life conditions over our products, which is one of the tasks in LIFE Photoscaling project. Today, for the third time, a company subcontracted by Madrid City Council has cleaned the platforms in Madrid. This time, the process of cleaning does not include the removing of graffiti paintings.
Yesterday, UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) and Madrid City Council staff met in Eduardo Torroja Institute for Construction Sciences. They dealt topics as the frictional tests, emission of particles, pollution in the streets.
On 08 May 2018 IETcc has organized a monitoring meeting with Raquel Navarrete (Neemo LIFE Team). She has been talked about the current progress (technical and financial questions) and has been shown the platforms in Madrid and in Arganda del Rey. The whole programme can be checked here.
Passive air sampling tubes have been installated in an area in Madrid. These passive tubes have filters which will take samples of air. The filters will be analysed later and they will let us to know about pollution of Madrid (specially NO2).
Once per season, measurement devices are calibrated. This process is carried out by placing the four devices in the place where two weather stations from Madrid City Council are located. One of these locations is in Madrid (Arturo Soria street) and the other one is in Arganda del Rey. Our four devices register data during, at least, a week and these ones are compared with […]
Floor slip resistance testing is the science of measuring the coefficient of friction (or resistance to slip accidents) of flooring surfaces, either in a laboratory (before or after installation) or on floors in situ. Flooring is tested using a tribometer (floor slip resistance tester) to discover if there is a high propensity for slip and fall accidents on it. In this case, the used device […]
Today, we have met with UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) and Madrid City Council at IETcc (Eduardo Torroja Institute for Construction Science). Topics such as next actions to perform, tests, expositions and meetings have been covered.
From the first time, one of the tasks in LIFE Photoscaling project was simulating real life conditions over our products. That aim includes the effects of environmental conditions, vehicles abrasion and also the cleaning by City Council workers. Today, this last condition has been simulated. The process of cleaning is divided in two ones: 1. Cleaning the “Leaching Bank of Proofs”. This action has been […]
