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Technics Group win Framework Agreement for Mansell
New Trainee Surveyor joins our team
Technics Group would like to welcome our new Trainee Surveyor, Przemyslaw Korczynski. Przemyslaw comes to us with an excellent educational record having read Geomorphology at Reading University and in Poland.
The Jelly Legs Club ride again
Last night saw the latest excursion of the Technics Group Jelly Legs Mountain Bike Club. We started at Abinger Hammer in the heart of the Surrey Hills, from here we made our way through Deers Leap Wood, on through Wotton and then started the long climb up the dusty trails on Leith Hill. We had a welcomed break at the top by the Semaphore Tower which is the highest point in Surrey. The best bit of course was the high speed run back down the hill taking in some great rocky and rooty singletrack trails. We all arrived at the bottom with the added bonus of no broken bones or serious scrapes!
Technics Group chosen for flagship project
London Mapping Festival Launch
Last night saw the launch of the London Mapping Festival in Covent Garden. The London Mapping Festival (LMF) 2011 – 2012 is an 18 month programme of activities designed to promote the unique range of mapping, innovative technologies and applications that exist for the Capital. The festival will showcase all mapping-related disciplines including cartography, surveying, GIS, GPS and remote sensing.
Directors become Chartered ICES Fellows
Technics Group Directors Graham Mills and John Macintyre have become Fellows of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors. Ken Hall, President of ICES, invited Graham and John to join ‘in recognition of your significant contribution to the surveying and civil engineering industries to date’. This follows a superb initiative, called Fellow by Invitation, which has been set up between The Survey Association and Chartered ICES and is open to Directors and owners of TSA member companies. The scheme links the two organisations closer together and opens up all the benefits of Chartered ICES membership to a wider audience.
TSA hosts another free seminar
The Survey Association held another free seminar yesterday covering Employment Law in the morning and Social Media in the afternoon. Siva Shadi and Anna Bunting of solicitors Davis Blank Furniss brought us up to date on Contracts of Employment, Bullying & Harassment and Competition & Confidentiality. Helen Coldicott from CFT then took us through Practical Social Media to Maximise your marketing. Both were detailed talks offering essential guidance and practical advice in these areas.
Laser Scanning Disused Quarry
The client request was simple, “can you provide us with a contour model of our site in Guildford”, the challenge was that the site was a sheer sided disused 25m deep chalk quarry. Health and Safety considerations meant that the quarry sides or base could not be accessed by the survey team to take measurements. The solution was to undertake the survey using a Riegl Laser Scanner with a Nikon digital camera mounted on top. The scanner records up to 122,000 points per second and has a range of 600m whilst being able to achieve a 3mm accuracy.
The Essential Guide to Utility Surveys
The Survey Association has released a video to help promote its excellent Utility Surveys guide. This is the first best practice guide in the UK and is essential reading for anyone responsible for excavations with regard to site management, health & safety, design, planning of facilities management. It is designed to inform both the people commissioning utility surveys and practitioners seeking to deliver a high quality and appropriate survey.