The Graduation Day for The Survey Association’s Introduction to Surveying Course was held on Friday 30 July 2010, at The Survey School at Worcester. TSA President, Graham Mills, presented James Pike with the Best Student Award.
26 students graduated from courses 22, 23, 24 and 25. The work produced by the students was of a very high standard. TSA, Chartered ICES and Leica Geosystems presented awards and certificates on what was a very positive and celebratory occasion.
We are pleased to introduce our new Senior Surveyor, Wesley Stevens.
Wesley comes to us with over 12 years surveying experience. He started in 1998 as a Survey Assistant before becoming a Land Surveyor in 2000 and Senior Surveyor in 2004. In his previous company he worked on some of the South East’s largest projects, always placing emphasis on high quality standards and project management. Wesley will be based in our Kent satellite office.
Wesley said “with my proven ability to manage and maintain the highest QA standards, I feel I will be able to make a significant contribution to the Sitechnics surveying team.”
Graham Mills was recently interviewed by Civil Engineering Surveyor magazine about his role as President of The Survey Association. The interview appears in the July/August 2010 edition of the magazine. To read the article click here.
Paul is a knowledgeable Land & Building Surveyor with over 8 years experience of working in the industry. He started as a junior surveyor in 2002, working up to Assistant and finally full Surveyor in 2006. Since then he has gained further experience of topographic surveys and measured building surveys while assisting developing junior staff to follow him up the career ladder.
Paul said of his new position “I would like to expand on my skills and progress my career further and I believe Sitechnics can help me achieve my future goals”.
At The Survey Association AGM last week it was announced that Sitechnics and Subtechnics Managing Director Graham Mills had been elected as TSA President for 2010.
The Survey Association, known generally as TSA, is the trade body for commercial survey companies in the UK. The association was formed in 1979 to give a focus for private sector businesses in land and hydrographic survey.
Today, the association has over 130 companies in membership as full, associate, supplier, affiliate or academic members directly involved in the survey business. The full and associate member companies together employ over 2500 people and had a turnover in 2007 of almost £250million.
Graham commented ‘I am delighted to have been elected as President of the TSA. I intend to use my time in office to build on the previous great work, and do all I can to increase the quality and standards of professionalism in our industry’.
We are delighted to welcome Alison Smith as our new Office Manager. She will be responsible for the Health & Safety system , for the preparation of PQQ’s and tenders as well as other administration duties.
Alison has gained extensive experience within administration and office management roles while working within production and retail environments. She’s looking forward to the challenges of this demanding role and to learning the ways of a different business sector.
We are delighted to announce the arrival of our latest recruit! Thomas was born on 20th Feb and is the son of Andy Overington, Sitechnics Projects Manager, and his partner Jo. Andy said
‘We have a few training issues to overcome before he can be let loose in the field, but he has great potential!’
Congratulations to Andy and Jo.
Leica has been supplying precise network corrections for GPS RTK for 5 years now through its spider software network.
At the home of English Rugby last week Leica further cemented its credentials and joint commitment with the Ordnance Survey (OS) to continue to improve and enhance the national GPS network which underpins our National Grid reference system.
The OS for its part also confirmed its ongoing commitment to national co-ordination and mapping via amongst other things its Geo-net of next generation rock anchor GPS reference stations and its collaborative work on new transformation models for both plan and height.
The event was also a convenient platform for Leica to display its new equipment and talk about the new Viva range of instruments and software with their image driven menus, amongst other things.
Launched in March 2009 from Plesetsk in NW Russia the ESA’s Gravity Field and Steady State Ocean Circulation Explorer is obtaining significant results from its investigation into the Earth’s gravity model.
Using a state of the art gradiometer accelerations in gravity are measured to an incredible one tenth of a million, millionth of gravity. Unprecedented achievements in refining current gravity models are expected, along with the potential to create a new universal height reference system (Geoid) for the planet.
Rune Floberghagen, ESA’s Goce Mission Manager, was reported by the BBC as saying:
“You see where there are big variations, for example in the mountain range of the Andes, or the Mariana Trench, or the Indonesian Arc, or the Himalayas. In fact, on most of the continents, you see a lot of variation,”
Goce has been described as the most beautiful satellite ever built
Along with the obvious benefit for surveying as a whole, with a universal terrestrial datum, Goce also aims to help shed light on crustal instability and magma movements, tidal heave and behaviour and also ice sheet mass-loss.
Compared to existing models, it is clear Goce has something new to offer
For the full article and gravity gradient map please see use the following link
The new ‘all-in-one” Scanstation C10 delivers faster, more accurate survey points in High-Definition. The Scanstation is much faster than its predecessor, capturing full dome scans up to 10x quicker. It now takes less than 2 minutes for a typical sized room.
With integrated real-time streaming video it allows our surveyors to select specific structures to survey on site. With an onboard controller and colour graphic displays, scanned data can be reviewed on site as part of our QA procedures. Our existing GPS SmartAntenna’s can also be attached to the C10 to allow greater flexibility whilst on site.
As with all laser scanners the C10 provides a safer, less intrusive method for surveying complex environments including confined spaces, power stations & highways.
For more information on the new Leica C10 Laser Scanner please visit the Leica Website
