Curtis Woodward

The complexities of setting up Crossrail’s large monitoring programme By Steve Thurgood MCInstCES, Monitoring Solutions Consultant at SCCS. In July 2011, Costain and Skanska working as a joint venture (CSJV) were awarded Crossrail contract C405 to complete the main civil engineering works for the new Crossrail station at Paddington. The station will be built underground below Eastbourne Terrace and adjacent...

Fast, exact and cost-efficient: Amberg Technologies, the Swiss specialist for railway and tunnel surveying, is expanding the well-tried rail surveying system GRP System FX with the new Amberg IMS 1000 and Amberg IMS 3000 system configurations. These configurations provide reliable and highly precise geometry information during the construction and maintenance of railway track systems – while achieving unparalleled productivity. IMS...

SCCS are currently providing instruments, equipment and technical expertise for a unique project at an exclusive London location monitoring Grade 1 listed buildings and the Thames Wall. This year long project will involve monitoring twenty four hours a day with a Leica Nova TM50 tracking data from thirty prisms and five under water tilt meters. This will provide constant data...

The main contractor has started to erect the steel work for our new facility. With just a 5 week program for the frame erection, all the cladding including roof guttering windows and doors. All eyes are on our main contractor to ensure that he keeps on time and on budget!!!

We are pleased to announce that according to the latest release of the IEC60825-1 Ed. 3 laser safety standard the Leica ScanStation P20 and the Leica ScanStation P15 are now Class 1 laser products. This new classification is valid with immediate effect for all ScanStation P20/P15 instruments in the market and for all new scanners delivered from the factory.