RICS golf day for LionHeart

 

The 2010 RICS golf day in support of Lionheart was held at Mile End in Oswestry.  The Sun came out and 12 teams from around Shropshire had a great day - organised by Mark Combes from Severn Partnership and David Goff.  The winning team was from Nock Deighton, followed closely by Halls Auctioneers in second and Godfrey Temperton in third. The day was also supported by nb2bc, Andrew Mason Consultancy, SCCS, Mercian Developments, Jacobs, Wrekin Housing trust and Applications in CADD who supply our n4ce survey software.  

Introducing 3d-model.co.uk

Introducing  3D-Model.co.uk home to Severn Partnership's 3D modelling and visualisation department, specialising in creating 3D models, images and videos from 3D Laser Scanned Point Clouds.

Utilising Laser Scan Data for faster, more accurate 3D Models.

Flickr photostream - images and videos

A selection of images, screenshots animations and photos of our surveyors working around the UK near boats, planes, trains and automobiles.

Follow the link to our photo stream... Flickr photostream

3D model visualisation - Quarry

3D model visualisation - Quarry
Originally uploaded by Severn Partnership

An animation fly-through of our texture mapped 3D modelling of a slate quarry. The original survey was completed using aerial photogrammetry and the 3D model was rendered in 3DSMax.

3D modelling - Tamper train

From scan cloud to 3D model, this tamper train illustrates the process.  This is only half the storey as the next step is toanimate the moving parts of the tamper and re-create the movement of ballast using physics engines to control actions !

Heritage 3D modelling - New and Old

 

Heritage to be (Quantum Leap in Shrewsbury), and two more examples of dimensionally accurate modelling from 3D point clouds.  The founding fathers of Birmingham and the Lord Hill column.  Both examples of 3D modelling from high detail 3D laser scanning point clouds.  Once modelled, digital photographs can be texture mapped on to give the realistic visualisations.

SPAR 2010 - Houston Laser scanning Conference

In February, Nick Blenkarn and 3D modeller Mark King made they journey over to Houston for the 2010 SPAR Laser scanning conference.

Keeping up to date on the latest scanning software & hardware, with time for a quick trip to the Houston Aeros and the Johnson Space Centre...

SPAR 2010 website

Severn Partnership wins Great Western Structures survey

The Severn Partnership and consulting engineers Parsons Brinckerhoff were selected to undertake a detailed survey of over 280 bridge and tunnels structures on the great Western main line (October 2009 to December 2009). This included the Severn Tunnel along with Box, Sodbury, Newport and Patchway Tunnels. All surveyed as 3D point clouds combined with high accuracy track geometry using our new GRP5000 system.

The Rail Engineer, March 2010 - Article on tunnel survey and kinematic laser scanning

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.

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