Our Services
Monitoring & Risk Management
Plowman Craven has been at the forefront of recent infrastructure developments where major tunnelling or below ground construction has taken place, and where precise monitoring for early warning of structural movement has been required. Plowman Craven's teams of specialist monitoring surveyors have been involved with London's development in the last 10 years, particularly in the rail environment:
- Kings Cross/St Pancras Stations
- High Speed 1- CTRL Eurostar Tunnel
- Tottenham Court Road
Recent projects commissioned are London's major new infrastructure developments, Crossrail and the Thameslink Programme. Plowman Craven is providing monitoring services at:
- Farringdon Station
- Borough Viaduct
- Royal Oak Portal
Plowman Craven's highly trained workforce use high precision instrumentation to measure and record fixed reference points on structures. The resulting data is then computed and presented for further analysis by specialists in order to provide indicators which might foretell of problems with ground collapse or heave caused through large scale underground works. All major projects where there is a possibility of damage occurring to surrounding infrastructure will have monitoring regimes in place, both manual monitoring and automated schemes using robotic instrumentation. Risk avoidance is crucial to the success of these multi-billion pound projects. Plowman Craven has the highest reputation among the UKs leading engineering consultants and construction groups, providing the monitoring services required to ensure the safe delivery of their designs.
