2009 Karting Grand Prix

Renal race Karting was the venue for our 2009 grand prix. Burning rubber, screeching tyres and white knuckles all round - and that was just the drive from Shrewsbury. Honours of the day go to:

1st place: Jamie Price
2nd place: Richard Morgan
3rd place Darren Read

Bala Weekend - 40 years of Surveying

Partnership surveyors, family and friends got together for a Summer BBQ / Mountain biking (or carrying) / Kayaking at lake Bala this year to celebrate 40 years in Surveying for Director Richard Otto. The sun came out (for once this Summer) and even allowed a spot of creative engineering design using the world recognised technique of spaghetti and Jelly babies (see above !)

Rock face laser scanning

Surveyors Rollo Rigby and Ash Johnson have just completed detailed laser scanning of a cliff face to enable Geotechnical investigations and design. The project will prevent rock fall and 3D laser scanning is the perfect technique for fast and accurate 3D mapping of irregular rock faces. Deliverables include snapshot image visualisations, 3D animated fly-throughs, standard topo contour plans, cross sections and the source point cloud data. The point cloud data can be viewed using a free viewer (pointools).


For more information, call Nick Blenkarn on 0844 880 8247 (webenquiry@severnpartnership.co.uk)

Topographical Survey - Aberystwyth University

Robotic survey techniques have been used to speed up topographical surveying at Aberystwyth University. Surveyors were working 'one man' (or woman) with Trimble S6 and S8 total stations to produce accurate Topo survey plans.

UTX Monitoring movement on railway lines

Our monitoring teams were called up to install a series of targets the monitor movement or live railway lines during the drilling of an undertrack crossing (UTX) near Kidderminster. Our cost efficient monitoring solution can be used to give real time movement reports, calculate displacement in x,y,z, rail twist, track CANT and absolute level. Survey teams will monitor movement while the drilling takes place from a place of safety and without being affected by the zone of influence.

For more information, call our Survey Manager - Bob Hutchings (0844 880 8247) or e-mail webenquiry@severnpartnership.co.uk

E-Business Conference 2009

Severn partnership Director Nick Blenkarn was invited to speak at the 2009 E-Business conference arranged by the National Business to Business Centre (nb2bc). The talk entitled managing customer relationships in the real world covered innovative use of IT systems such as collaborative documents, opensource CRM and online customer feedback. Other speakers covered the themes of online marketing, use of social media, e-mail marketing and managing your sales pipeline.