Activity

The scope of NQM activities in the domains of Metrology and Quality comprises the following:

Study, definition, design and validation of methods to promote the quality of measurement and its traceability, within the scope of various physical quantities of interest to Civil Engineering (namely, dimensional, mass, pressure, force, temperature, humidity, flow, flow speed, electrical quantities, geometric quantities, roughness and quantities in dynamic regime, among others).
Study, development, and validation of methods aimed at quantifying measurement uncertainty in calibrations and testing, its analysis and application, namely, in conformity assessment processes.
Study of new reference and transfer methods and standards, associated with procedures for the traceability of equipment and Civil Engineering standards.
R&DI aimed at applying mathematical and computational methods associated with the measurement of quantities in Civil Engineering.
Development of numerical calculation libraries and computational tools applied in Metrology and their validation.

NQM's strategic research has as fundamental references the UN orientation described into the sustainable development goals (SDGs), the framework of the European Commission's strategic plan reflected in the green and digital (twin) transition, and the challenges of emerging technologies and data science, as well as the Metrology challenges that fit in the context of the challenges associated with smart cities.
Aware of the high challenges that lie ahead for the quality of measurement as a support for safety and quality of life in the present and in the future, the strategic lines of research that have been defined are:

Metrology applied in Hydrology and urban Hydraulics.
Optical metrology.
Metrology applied to smart technologies.
Integration of measurement systems in the digital transition.
Metrological traceability of instrumentation applied in civil engineering.