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Introducing Manhole Inspections for Heathrow Airport

10 Nov 2023

We’ve got some exciting news! If you do utility surveys for Heathrow, your life’s about to get a lot easier. Based on Heathrow’s “Survey Content Specification” document, we’ve added a new form to the Manhole Inspection app containing only the data fields as laid out the spec. The standard Manhole and…

Systra Increased Productivity By Over 50% Whilst Sharing Data on a 400 PGM Job

Case Study

30 May 2022

Systra is a leading consulting and engineering firm in the field of transport infrastructure. Under a previous guise of TSP Projects they worked on a large railway job that required the installation of around 400 PGMs. Because of the work involved, they pooled their resources with another survey company. Normally they would…

How Malcolm Hughes Reduced Manhole Card Processing Time By Over 66%

Case Study

24 May 2022

Malcolm Hughes are one of the largest independent survey companies in the UK. A 12 strong team carry out utility surveys, and clients often request a manhole card report for each chamber recorded. Like many surveyors, their data collection on-site was done using traditional methods. The amount of metadata requested…

Utility Mapping Cut Their Manhole Card Processing Time in Half For 1000 Manholes Per Month

Case Study

24 May 2022

Utility Mapping specialises in the detection and mapping of underground utility assets. They survey around 1000 manholes per month and produce manhole cards as part of their client deliverables. Traditionally they would use pen and paper to record data on-site. This lead to a time consuming process back in the…

How a 5000 Manhole Job Led to 100% Faster Manhole Card Processing For Severn Partnership

Case Study

17 May 2022

Severn Partnership are a market leading survey company with multiple areas of expertise. One of those areas is utility mapping, and this often requires the production of manhole card deliverables to their clients. Historically they collected manhole data on-site to produce using a pen and paper. Transferring the data from…

How Storm Geomatics Eliminated Three Weeks of PGM Processing Time Over Three Months

Case Study

16 May 2022

Storm Geomatics is a land survey company specialising in measurements related to water. As part of their work they install PGM control stations and supply witness diagrams to the Environment Agency and other clients. Traditionally they would record the PGM data on-site using pen and paper. Back in the office, somebody…

Introducing the New and Improved Manhole Overview Screen

New Features

24 Mar 2022

SurvAid started life as a tool for surveyors who need to create PDF witness diagrams for PGMs installed in a control network, and is still used daily for exactly that purpose. Over time though, we added more functionality so utility surveyors can also take advantage of the time savings and…

Why one of the UK’s largest survey companies uses our PGM Manager app

Case Study, Surveying Apps

9 Nov 2020

Plowman Craven specialise in providing laser scanning and measuring data services worldwide and are seen as one of the top survey companies based in the UK. They’ve been using our PGM Manager App within their rail team since May 2016 so we thought we’d ask them a few questions about…

How mobile apps are changing the future of land surveying

Surveying Apps

28 Sep 2020

Technological advances in recent years have transformed the land survey industry. From mobile 3D mapping tools to UAVs and drones, vast quantities of accurate geospatial data can be collected and processed with a few pieces of equipment. However, when it comes to capturing information about the characteristics of things beyond…

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Introducing Manhole Inspections for Heathrow Airport

Systra Increased Productivity By Over 50% Whilst Sharing Data on a 400 PGM Job

How Malcolm Hughes Reduced Manhole Card Processing Time By Over 66%

Utility Mapping Cut Their Manhole Card Processing Time in Half For 1000 Manholes Per Month

How a 5000 Manhole Job Led to 100% Faster Manhole Card Processing For Severn Partnership

How Storm Geomatics Eliminated Three Weeks of PGM Processing Time Over Three Months

Introducing the New and Improved Manhole Overview Screen

Why one of the UK’s largest survey companies uses our PGM Manager app

How mobile apps are changing the future of land surveying

Damian Taylor

Utility Mapping

Anthony Pritchard

Storm Geomatics

Connor Davis

Severn Partnership

Chris Rooney

Malcolm Hughes

Craig Papachrisostomou

Plowman Craven

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