News

April 2011 – Crossrail C510 Award
BBMV consortium made up of Alpine BeMo, Balfour Beatty, Morgan Sindall, Vinci Construction Grande Projets have awarded Sol Data the Crossrail monitoring contract for Liverpool Street and Whitechapel Station known as contract C510.

March 2011 – Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring Conference 16th and 17th March.
Sol Data sponsored this years Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring Conference at Earls Court Conference Centre. Recognising the importance of the 2 day event, we also provided pre conference workshop and conference speakers and was represented with an exhibition booth, Our thanks to all the visitors to the stand and the continual support from all our loyal clients. Missed the conference? Feel free to contact us to discuss all your monitoring and survey needs. 

December 2010 – awarded Bond Street Station Upgrade.
A Costain, Laing O'Rourke joint venture, known as CoLOR has been appointed to undertake the Bond Street Station upgrade. Following Sol Data's successful completion of the forward monitoring, the main contract monitoring has also been awarded to Sol Data. Bond Street station is again going to be a key station for Crossrail.

November 2010 – over 100 Cyclops (robotic total station) currently working in the UK.
Sol Data are celebrating the 109th Cyclops currently working in the UK. Many of these instruments are working in large groups, determining absolute movements to sub millimetre accuracies and providing data in real time.

October 2010 – Sol Data win the International APAS Adventure Race. 
Congratulations to Martin Beth (Group Technical Director) and Christophe Bourlart (General Manager) for winning the APAS, 2 man, multi discipline race involving two days of running, orienteering, sea kayaking and cycling over a cross country course of 98km.   

September 2010 – ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Accreditation.
It has always been Sol Data's aim to reduce the environmental impact of our activities to a minimum. We are delighted to have successfully achieved ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Accreditation. 

August 2010 – awarded Tottenham Court Road Station Upgrade.
Following the successful completion of the forward monitoring contract at Tottenham Court Road, the main monitoring contract has been awarded to Sol Data, due for completion in 2016. Tottenham Court Road is planned to be a major station on the Crossrail alignment.

July 2010 – Sol Data summer BBQ.
At a secret location, somewhere in deepest darkest Kent we were blessed once again with one of the best sunshine days of the year for our annual Sol Data BBQ. The Saturday bash started with the early birds volunteering to set up the bouncy castle, marque and cooking area, a friendly football match (which bore many similarities to Aussie rules) built up the appetite and towards the evening a petanque match rounded of the perfect day.

May 2010 – awarded Bond Street Station Forward Monitoring.
Prior to the planned Bond Street Station Upgrade and to provide background, seasonal, structural and geotechnical performance data on this busy London Underground station Sol Data have been successful in obtaining the forward monitoring contract. Bond Street is planned to be a major station on the Crossrail alignment.

January 2010 – Sol Data Move from Strength to Strength.
To provide the additional office and storage facilities necessary to service our existing projects and the planned growth expected on future projects, Sol Data have built additional office accommodation and secured an additional warehouse facility, doubling our floor area  to 10,000sq ft. This allows for off the shelf stock, calibration, hire, servicing, repairs and manufacturing capability. The North Kent location with ‘on the door step’ M20/M25 motorway links allows easy access to the entire country and allows us to service our offices in London, at Farringdon and Kings Cross and at Burscough in Lancashire.