Meet Our People: Vitor Guimaraes Project Engineer (PC Monitoring)

I work for Plowman Craven’s PC Monitoring division, helping provide clients with highly-accurate monitoring and measurement of buildings or infrastructure that could be affected by construction activity.

Typically, it is a mixture of office and site work. So that involves collating and delivering our monitoring reports, as well as scheduling staff according to the project needs. I will also attend site for the installation and maintenance of automated, geotechnical and environmental equipment.

Starting a project, installing the equipment and seeing the project develop. I also enjoy verifying and cross-referencing monitoring movements with site works, before finally discussing the data with clients that appreciate the importance of monitoring data.

Probably the fact that having arrived in London from another country I have adapted and been able to increase my experience and knowledge in a different environment. I also hope that I have made a contribution to PC Monitoring being able to continue to push boundaries.

I am a Geological engineer by trade so I am very passionate about soil and structural movements. Monitoring is a very good fit!

Understanding monitoring and which types of activity would suit a particular project obviously help… but more generally it’s about attention to detail, good analytical skills and taking pride in delivering a report to a high standard that can stand up to scrutiny from the client.

Fielden House was great. It’s in a very sensitive location next to the Shard and involved automated, manual and geotechnical monitoring, meaning that we were constantly cross-referencing data from different sources and contrasting it with site works development.

I enjoy the feeling of not being just another employee – but actually being valued. The staff are all very approachable, we all get on well in the PC Monitoring team and it's a really relaxed working environment.

I don’t really know… but I’d like to think am easy to approach, a team player and capable of listening to any concerns, observations or even criticisms.

Swimming, being outdoors, reading.

It is what it is!