ALC - Technics

Technics Group has been providing Survey solutions for Royal Surrey County Hospital since 2004. We have delivered multiple surveys of the entire hospital complex including Utility Mapping and measured building surveyors. Recently we were asked to assist in providing a non-intrusive structural survey of concrete floor slab for the new Linac bunker development. A Linear accelerator (LINAC), is a device most commonly used for radiation treatments for patients with cancer, the new bunker will provide additional capacity which will reduce waiting times for patients and enable the RSCH to maintain their specialist centre for cancer.

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.

Technics Group has been instructed to produce survey data of multiple pod sites within the London Square Mile.  Renew by Media Metrica is network of high specification communication pods which conveniently doubles as a recycling point.   The survey data is being used to create planning ‘Site Packs’ as Renew seeks to expand their network to 200 on street screens targeting 3 million passing pedestrians. Working to tight deadlines the surveys are required so that the pod locations can be planned and installed before the Olympics.

Accurate building Net Internal Area calculations have a variety of uses including as built assessment, marketing, H&S documentation and lease / rent calculations and are therefore essential for a project team. Being certain of the NIA allows the team to confidently progress and removes the likelihood of conflict. Technics Group have recently completed an NIA survey for the New Central development in Woking, Surrey.

The Barratt Homes development includes 445 Residential units together with 4900m2 office space over a six storey office block.

Working closely with the contractor Midguard Limited the survey was split into 2 phases which were undertaken during 2011 and 2012, each being to a critical project deadline.

Technics Group undertakes many weird and wonderful surveys during the year, one of the most notable and interesting of which are the confined space exercises. These usually entail a difficult environment with challenging access and working conditions.

We have a crew of confined space trained staff who with their expert knowledge, experience and pragmatic tenacity always come up with an acceptable and safe method of operation in order to achieve our client objectives.