CEFA is a National Framework led by Network Rail to capture
condition data for its Civil Engineering assets including buildings.
- Network Rail
We provide technical engineering advice and have done for many years.
When the opportunity came along to assist the client with the examination framework they were very keen on us bidding and encouraged us to do so. We also provide design work that comes out of these inspections i.e. we provide an end to end service from the inspection, repair, maintenance, assessment, monitoring, upgrading and strengthening and replacement designs for their assets. A trusted safe pair of hands that they can rely on throughout the lifecycle.
The real benefit is since we know their assets inside out, we can provide solid and experienced technical advice whatever the situation they need help with.
Innovation is key and we are currently reducing the structures being monitored through traditional engineering advice, saving the client money.
That is in the long run but initially we are proposing they reinvest these budgets into remote monitoring so that in the future they have better information available without the need for site measuring visits. This will save money, produce better data and give greater confidence that structures being monitored can continue in service without the need to set foot on track.
We are also providing scanning solutions that offer 3D representations and walkthroughs on site. This allows them to see first hand what we are identifying again without the need to travel to site.
The region is large and spreads along the south coast from Margate to Exeter. This generally would involve a lot of travel from our head office in Sidcup but we have mitigated this in 3 ways:
- By aiming recruitment at local people.
- By using suppliers from Wessex to minimise travel and driving.
- By planning work in an efficient way to stop travel journeys overlapping or being doubled up. This significantly improves our carbon footprint on this contract.
MEng (Hons) CEng MICE CMgr MCMI
