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SCCS recently visited Sweden in a bid to further understand how Leica Machine Guidance and Control systems have developed and are now utilised in other countries. Leica Geosystems Sweden have a vast hire fleet of machine control solutions, with approximately 1000 individual systems being utilised in the western region alone. Leica Machine Control command an 80% market share in Sweden...

SCCS - The Survey Equipment Company will be attending INTERGEO 2014 in Berlin which is the world’s leading conference trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management. INTERGEO covers a wide variety of fields, ranging from surveying, geoinformation, remote sensing and photogrammetry to complementary solutions and technologies. Processing, using and analysing geodata on the Internet or in the field is...

SCCS supported this year’s ICES annual dinner which has become a must attend event within the geomatics calendar. Our very own team of professionals, along with over 30 guests attended the event at the historic Chateau Impney in Droitwich in Spa.

SCCS – The Survey Equipment Company are proud to have recently supported Southampton University with their Constructionarium project at the secure site in Bircham Newton in Norfolk. Started over ten years ago, Constructionarium provides a practical construction experience allowing both students and professionals to construct scaled down versions of buildings, bridges, dams and other engineering developments. The project is aimed...

The complexities of setting up Crossrail’s large monitoring programme By Steve Thurgood MCInstCES, Monitoring Solutions Consultant at SCCS. In July 2011, Costain and Skanska working as a joint venture (CSJV) were awarded Crossrail contract C405 to complete the main civil engineering works for the new Crossrail station at Paddington. The station will be built underground below Eastbourne Terrace and adjacent...