Wednesday 3 February 2021

2019 summary (very late - 2/10) - research entry that was missing

 








2020 - Year of the lockdown

 2020 - A strange year all in all - but major progress was made!

The potted history;

  1. Project work rolled in throughout the year which was very good for business finances. 
  2. Big ticket item is that we finally delivered the 25 Manchester Metrolink Safety Cases for Thales - after 5 years!
  3. We took up residence in Sensor City offices in Liverpool. Then promptly got moved out to Liverpool Science Park while the SC offices were being 'expanded'. We will see if we ever move back?
  4. We built our rail infrastructure simulator CLAMP Critical Location Acoustic Modification Platform and took many thousands of readings for various void and bridge configurations. 
  5. We were planning of running some real field tests with SAIN but lockdown put a stop to that. So we ended up doing runs on CLAMP.
  6. We secured a trial on road bridges in Powys which hopefully we will carry out this year - once we are out of the third lockdown period!
  7. Ten SAIN units are now on delivery from Fossa for this project.
  8. We are also firming up our bridge signature analysis and hope to be presenting the results in Mallorca at the Civil Comp conference in 2021.
So all in all not such a bad year. Our caravan in Wales has helped tremendously - many weeks were spent there planning and researching which otherwise would not have happened!

Onward and upward.....