Monitoring specifications and program design.
If you are developing a specification or need help designing a monitoring program, contact us for a quote. You work directly with Dr. Shaun Dustin, PE, an instrumentation engineer since 1996.
Request a consulting quoteInstrumentation specifications
Technical specifications, instrument schedules, drawings and bid documents for monitoring programs, written so suppliers can price them and contractors can build them.
Monitoring program design
What to measure, where, how often and to what accuracy. Alert and action levels tied to the design, and a network sized to the site.
Construction monitoring
Monitoring of adjacent structures, excavations, foundations and historic buildings through construction, from baseline to close-out.
Data quality and operations
Reading review, data management, maintenance and calibration plans, and operation of long-term monitoring systems.
Procurement and logistics
Equipment selection, supplier evaluation, import and export, and coordination of installation and supporting civil works.
Review and training
Independent review of monitoring designs and data, and training for engineers and technicians in measurement fundamentals.
Three decades of measurement.
Dr. Shaun Dustin, PE, has designed and run instrumentation programs since 1996. He holds a BS and MS in civil engineering from Brigham Young University and a PhD from Utah State University.
He directed the Infrastructure Instrumentation Group at Campbell Scientific, training more than 1,000 engineers and technicians on five continents, then developed monitoring projects worldwide as Senior Engineer at Geocomp, including the Rabigh power plant in Saudi Arabia.
As owner of Dustin Engineers he designed and ran the five-year construction monitoring program for the Salt Lake Temple and the metrology program for Qiddiya in Riyadh, from import and export through installation.
Three decades of work with manufacturers, software developers and specialty contractors in the United States, Europe and Asia means your program draws on the right equipment and people. He speaks English and Spanish.
Selected projects
- Salt Lake Temple, Utah: five-year construction monitoring program
- Qiddiya, Riyadh: metrology and data quality program, import, export and installation
- Historic district, Jeddah: monitoring system design
- Rabigh power plant (Geocomp): field monitoring system design and installation
- Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge: project contribution
- Hospitals, courthouses and Space Mountain: seismic structural design
Publications and talks
- The Future of Infrastructure: Dams and the Internet of Things. International Journal on Hydropower and Dams, 2017 (with W. Allen Marr).
- Operation and Maintenance of Instrumentation Systems. USSD White Paper, 2021 (with A. Sutter and P. Choquette).
- Keynote: The Future of Design, the role of instrumentation in infrastructure. GeoChina 2016, Shandong, China.
- US Patent 7,615,155 B1.