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As a thank you to our team for their hard work over the past few months we took them all to a Country Estate in Surrey. Under the glorious sunshine we started with a plentiful barbecue before taking turns on the two gun clay pigeon shoot. The shooting brought out everyones competitive side and sharp shooter of the day went to Utility Surveyor Jak Harper, proving that he is not just good at finding targets below the ground!
Chairman Graham Mills recently spent 2 nights on board yacht for team building and learning to splice the Main Brace
Geomatics World recently interviewed Derry Long on the subject of BIM
BIM is used most productively when it is applied to new building projects and, with the help of government, it has been pushed hard by the design software companies. Everything is new, from foundations upwards. Land surveyors are involved in surveying the site to show the area of land available and its relationship to existing structures and infrastructure and then, during construction, they may be hired to do setting out-work. Beyond that, their involvement is usually minimal and fragmented. However, there is the opportunity to be involved during the whole project life-cycle in providing as-built data, independent Industry QA and also providing a “basic” BI Modelling capability, to ease workflow. Since on-going and timely accurate and appropriate data is key to any fast-paced project there is also a role for surveyors to consult with the industry on the best methods and options for providing such data.
Martin Penney – Technics Group Survey Director recently attended the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS for their annual BIM Conference.
The annual RICS BIM conference was very well attended in London last week by a wide cross-section of the industry including Government, academia, architectural practices, QS, facilities management and legal; Geomatics was the only under-represented sector as usual:
Fort Cumberland situated on Eastney Point at the entrance to Langstone Harbour on the Hampshire Coast was the impressive venue for English Heritage’s BIM Strategy Seminar in January.
The current remaining pentagonal fortification dates back to an early earthwork battery of 1716 and was the brainchild of William Duke of Cumberland- erstwhile of the Jacobite Rebellion and the Battle of Culloden. Built to control the entrance to Langstone Harbour with its impressive arsenal of 34 interlocking-arc guns, this strategic position also helped to defend the access to Portsmouth Harbour and its docks to the West.
Once again Technics Group will be attending Marché International des Professionnels d’Immobilier which translated means International market of the Professionals of Real Estate or simply known to all as MIPIM.
Technics Group, one of the largest survey companies located in the South East, has appointed John Macintyre as Managing Director. John was previously Operations Director of Technics Group, responsible for managing all survey projects. Founder and former Managing Director Graham Mills is now Chairman of the Group. The company has recently seen significant business growth with new clients across many sectors including construction, retail and utilities. Technics Group was also recently voted Best Surveying and Property Services Company in the Surrey Property Awards 2012.
Technics Group were recently appointed to carry out a verticality deformation survey of a block of flats in Canterbury, Kent.
The site was a modern, three-storey block in a small residential development and consisted of two wings conjoined by a shared stair core. The interior exhibited some severe cracking suggesting a serious subsidence issue, which had led to the building being deemed uninhabitable and the relocation of the residents.
Structural Engineers David Osborne Associates commissioned Technics Group to undertake the survey as part of their investigation and remedial design work.
The project requirement was to produce tabulated results showing deflections from vertical of the exterior walls and interior stair core walls at 31 plan positions, each at 10 level intervals from ground to soffit.
A sub-contractor from Highley has been fined for safety breaches after a worker was burned by a ‘jet of fire’ when he hit an underground electricity cable with a steel pin while replacing pavement edging in Birmingham.
The worker, 38, from Bridgnorth, who does not want to be named, escaped with minor burns to his arms and eyebrows and had his clothing singed when the 415 volt cable sent a ‘jet of fire’ up the steel pin.
An investigation into the incident that took place on 16 August 2011 by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found Ricky Paul James, 46, the subcontractor responsible for the work, had incorrectly indentified the location of the live cable.
Welcome to the Technics Group MIPIM Tips. Sit back with a nice cup of tea and take a look at our comprehensive list of suggestions made up from contributions by all those who have attended MIPIM previously.