Railway survey in Poland - Trako conference

Managing director Mark Combes paid a flying visit to Gdansk, Poland to publicise Severn Partnership survey capabilities on large scale mapping, high accuracy Pway survey and railway surveying in general.  Linking up with UKTI midlands who promote the Midlands Rail cluster of rail specialist companies.  Mark met up with key contacts at the PKP, along with some of our key clients such as Mott MacDonald, Atkins, Halcrow, and Jacobs.

Flood avoidance - The role of Geomatics

Severn Partnership played host to two local MPs, the TSA, EA and ESI to discuss the role of Geomatics in Flooding.  From left to right: Mark Fermor (MD at ESI - Groundwater & Environmental specialists), Owen Patterson (MP, North Shropshire), Philip Dunne (MP, Ludlow), Rory Stanbridge (Secretary General of TSA), Richard Bentley (Operations team leader at the EA).  Discussions ranges from Threshold levels to GNSS RTK survey, LIDAR, Photogrammetry, Shropshire groundwater scheme, modelling for flood risk management and EA asset survey. 

Richard Otto retires from Severn Partnership

Pictured from left to right: Nick Blenkarn, Richard Otto and Mark Combes.  Handing over a picture of Marguerite Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula by Ben Osbourne to mark Richard retiring from the Partnership.  Richard will be off to Antarctica this year and after that, he will be representing University College London to promote their Railgrid (Snake Maker) geodetic software.