Terrain Surveys have started 2012 with investment in new survey equipment and we have recently added a new member to our growing team. With an increasing demand in laser scanning we have invested in a Leica C10 HDS Scanner, and also upgraded our GPS survey equipment.

With the investment in laser scanning technology we continue to improve the quality and efficiency of our services. Laser scanning offers rapid non-contact capture of 3D data, particularly vital to sensitive sites, and no return site visits due to the completeness of data.  From highly accurate survey data we can provide a wide range of survey deliverables depending on your requirements, including 2D drawings, 3D models and pointcloud datasets.

Finally, we welcome the latest member of our survey team, Dan Mills, who joined us this February as a Survey Assistant.

We continue this year with a busy workload, with all our survey teams busy on measured building and topographical surveys, including a 20 bedroom residential property in Mayfair.

Recent projects have included a measured survey of a bridge over the River Lea in Luton, which was scanned with a Leica C10 laser scanner. The bridge is currently closed to traffic as there are structural issues needing to be rectified. The image above shows a slice of the pointcloud close to the bridge structure. A topographical survey, bridge plans, elevations and a series of sections were produced as deliverables.

We also have several interesting projects waiting to start including further measured surveys at Fort Gilkicker in Gosport and a large country estate in Oxfordshire.

It has been a busy few months at Terrain Surveys with several commissions for topographical surveys and measured building surveys. As a result of our workload we have continued to expand our survey team by employing a new staff member.

In June we were commissioned to carry out a measured survey of a fascinating Victorian fort located near Gosport, Hampshire. Overlooking the Solent, Fort Gilkicker is a Grade II listed building and scheduled ancient monument with a proposed development to convert to luxury apartments. With the aid of a Leica HD laser scanner the fort was scanned internally and externally to produce detailed floor plans, elevations and sections, as well as a topographical survey of the site.

We welcome the latest member of out survey team, Lewis Coleman, who joined us in June as a Survey Assistant.

Congratulations go to Alec Thomas who recently completed his BSc (Hons) Surveying and Mapping Sciences at the University of East London. Alec is the latest of our land surveyors that the company has provided day release education for professional dvelopment.

Finally, Director, Colin Wheeldon, successfully completed the Oxfam Trailwalker Challenge in July. Colin along with three other team members walked the South Downs Way between Petersfield and Brighton, a distance 62 miles. The team completed the walk in 27 hours and raised over £3,000 for Oxfam and The Gurkha Welfare Trust.

Terrain Surveys began 2011 with a busy first quarter, with an upturn in quotations and commissions for measured surveys. In January and February a team of several surveyors were busy on a large building survey in Leicester. Covering seven floors and 29,000sqm we provided a topographical survey, floor plans, elevations and sections. A more recent project involved the surveying of a section of the River Lea for improvement works on a large supermarket development. Equipped with a dry suit, pictured above, we recorded river bed levels to produce plans and river sections.

South Downs Challenge

Director, Colin Wheeldon, along with 3 friends and family is embarking on a long distance walking challenge in July this year.

His team is entering as one of over 500 teams attempting to run/walk 100 km/62 miles along the South Downs Way in under 30 hours. It is the equivalent of 2½ marathons, up and down Ben Nevis and Snowdon all in one go. This is all taking place on the weekend 16^th/17^th July and is in aid of Oxfam and the Gurkhas Welfare Trust.

If you are able to help by sponsoring Colin and his team it would really be appreciated.

We will provide more information and let you know how his team gets on. In the mean time if you would like to know more about the event or would like to sponsor Colin, please follow the links below.

www.oxfam.org.uk/trailwalker

www.virginmoneygiving.com/team/youcannotbeserious

The above image of a scan of Welwyn High Street illustrates the amount of detail achieved from a single scan taking minutes to capture. Using conventional surveying methods this amount of detail would take at the very least a day to capture. To produce this image, the raw data is quickly processed to generate the ‘pointcloud’ from which a variety of 2D and 3D deliverables can be achieved.

Winter has arrived early this year and our topographical survey teams are working outside in some harsh wintry conditions. Terrain Surveys have been busy on numerous site surveys largely on residential projects throughout London and the south east.

A large and ongoing measured building survey project has kept our surveyors busy, for the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. As part of a modernisation programme of the Royal Brompton and Harefield hospital sites located in west London Terrain Surveys have carried out several measured surveys throughout this year. More recently we have been working with the hospital’s estates department collating and updating their existing survey drawings to provide them with a user friendly database installed on the department’s CAD system.