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January Update – Reflections on 2020 and What’s in Store for 2021
We’ve built long-standing relationships up with councils in the North East over the years, and we’re pleased to be their trusted surveyor to support them in the area.
By 1870, the ‘F’ Pit was the major coal outlet for the New Washington Colliery. Over the years, the pit has survived explosions, been re-modelled and modernised before finally drawing its last coal in 1968. Following the closure, the National Coal Board gifted the impressive winding house and headgear to the town of Washington.
Landform completes measured building survey to support Martin House Hospice renovation plans
In January 2019, Landform Surveys conducted a range of detailed surveys to inform a potential renovation project of Martin House Children’s Hospice in Boston Spa, Yorkshire.
In January 2019, Landform Surveys conducted a range of detailed surveys to inform potential development work on Alnwick Station.
Before the country went on lockdown, Landform Surveys carried out a historic building survey for the Holy Name Church in Jesmond to provide insight into the condition of the structure.
We have surveyed many bridges and structures on highways over the years and provided drawn as-built plans or point cloud data to our clients.
This month we attended the scene of a bridge strike caused by a vehicle passing under a bridge and its load striking the bridge beam.
In the first half of 2018, Landform Surveys completed three huge Highway Surveys across the North East of the UK. We are very proud of our land and road survey team for getting all three finished by August, especially considering the scale of each project.
While the majority of the building surveys that we do are for commercial properties, we also conduct domestic measured building surveys for homes of all sizes.
We have worked at quarries all over the country for many years, providing extraction quantities, stockpile surveys, overburden check surveys, and setting out.
Participating in environmental initiatives is a regular part of surveying as we work with a number of engineering and environmental consultancies.
We have worked extensively on National Grid Properties sites, surveying many gas holder sites all over the country.
Often when surveying historic buildings we come across many challenges, which limits the types of surveys available.
It’s not every day that we get both the opportunity to work on a photo montage survey thats inside the grounds of a royal palace, so we jumped at the chance to work on this project.
Roofs can one of the more challenging structures to survey, often requiring scaffolding and posing health and safety hazards in order to product a quality survey.
Precise monitoring surveys can be used to monitor movement on a building or structure that shows previous signs of movement or may be susceptible to movement or damage in the future.
Flooding is becoming increasingly more common, leaving lasting consequences for landowners and homeowners.
This year, Landform Surveys have been asked to survey many large scale highways projects, such as the M1 in Leeds, & the A19 in Durham.
Following extreme flooding events in and around Newcastle in 2012, Landform Surveys were commissioned by Capita to produce topographic surveys of over 20 sites in North Tyneside to enable flood mitigation methods to be designed.
Landform Surveys were commissioned by Northumberland County Council to produce topographic surveys and elevations of over 20 structures and bridges throughout Northumberland.
Landform Surveys are proud to have worked with Lidl UK for over 15 years, and have been heavily involved in their expansion programme in the UK.