Nuclear Power Plant at Sizewell

Storm Geomatics surveyors have been working in and around the nuclear power plant at Sizewell, Suffolk. Surveyors were given a brief to survey a variety of water boreholes, piezometers and open channel cross sections in the vicinity of the site. This was a tough job for many reasons – access being the main one. Working on nuclear power plants can be extremely dangerous and our surveyors attended a two day course to learn about all safety elements. Once on site regular safety audits were made whilst the surveyors battled the marshy terrain to reach the required survey locations. Our surveyors proved once again that they can get through the toughest of tasks!

19th November 2013 was a memorable day for the survey community and Leica Geosystems. It was the VIP opening day of Leica’s new headquarters in Milton Keynes and the Leica team put on an interesting day packed full of history, current and future plans and finished it off with a guest speaker from the Red Bull Formula One marketing team. The Red Bull team use Hexagon Metrology (Leica Geosystems parent company) to machine and inspect parts for their Formula One racing cars. Storm Geomatics were used in a presentation on the same day to demonstrate how the MS50 Laser scanner could be put to use on a ship canal basin.