Gyeonggi Construction Headquarters Conducts Safety Inspections at 826 Sites Including Bridges

Gyeonggi Provincial Government Gwanggyo New Office Building

Gyeonggi Province is set to conduct safety inspections on 826 locations including bridges within the province.

On the 8th, the Gyeonggi Provincial Construction Headquarters announced that this year it will carry out safety inspections on 826 road structures such as bridges and rivers located on nationally supported local roads (Gukjido) and local roads managed by Gyeonggi Province.

The Construction Headquarters manages 826 road structures including bridges, tunnels, cut slopes, retaining walls, underpasses, and pedestrian overpasses located on local roads in the eup and myeon areas of 15 urban and rural complex cities and counties within the province, such as Yangpyeong.

In particular, the Construction Headquarters will focus on inspecting 29 major cut slopes and retaining walls this month. Inspection items include occurrences of soil and rock debris and cracks in retaining walls.

Additionally, to comprehensively analyze the relationship between overloaded vehicle traffic and bridge damage, the Construction Headquarters is promoting a study tentatively titled "IoT-based Analysis of the Impact of Overloaded Vehicle Traffic on Small to Medium-sized Bridges" in collaboration with the Infrastructure Safety Research Headquarters of the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT).

The province has tentatively identified that one 10-ton axle load vehicle has the equivalent impact of 70,000 passenger cars and regularly conducts joint crackdowns with the National Land Management Office and police on national roads within the province.

Han Geon-woo, head of the Road Construction Division at the Gyeonggi Provincial Construction Headquarters, stated, "Since the enforcement of the Serious Accident Punishment Act in 2022, we have been conducting meticulous management to promptly respond to the increasing public interest in safety. Through organic cooperation with the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, the Gyeonggi Provincial Construction Headquarters will take a leading role in the field of bridge management."

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