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Bury
Associates Limited
233 Ombersley Road
Worcester | WR3 7BY
t: 01905 26222
f: 01905 22555
www.buryassociates.co.uk
surveys@buryassociates.co.uk |
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Latest News
Last updated on 19 October 2009
Archived
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Revit
Architecture: 3D’s answer to floor plans
Over the past few years Andy Jackson has been
developing his skills with Revit. In order for
clients to carry out their 3D design work on
existing buildings they need our surveys in 3D.
We firmly believe that the future of measured
building surveys is not just 3D, it is
"intelligent 3D".
Using Revit we are now producing 3D surveys that
utilise a parametric design engine, enabling any
element on our surveys to be altered once it has
been created. The Revit model is produced with
the involvement of the surveyors that measured
the building, ensuring the quality of the
finished model.
For Revit users the benefits of this service
means that you do not have to create your models
from 2d plans (although we can do 2d conversion
as well), meaning that the architects time is
now freed up to do what they do best –
designing.
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3d
Model of Salford Museum
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Visuals
using Mental Rays render engine.
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Monu-mental
Visuals with Revit’s new render engine: Mental
Ray
Autodesk has now
replaced Accurender with Mental Ray meaning we can now produce photo-realistic
images for your visualisation needs.
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Going
Underground
Bury Associates now offer
Underground Utility Service Tracing. We are able to provide an accurate and
detailed plan of all detectable underground services within a specific site
using techniques such as Radio Detection Scanners and Ground Penetrating Radar. We recently
produced a Topographic & Underground survey of the extensive headquarters of
West Mercia Constabulary, near Worcester.
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Surveying
your site from outer space
We
continue to invest in the latest survey
technology, A typical example of the cutting
edge equipment we use is our Trimble VRS
(Virtual Reference Station) GPS. VRS gives us
centimetre accurate Ordnance Survey grid and
datum co-ordinates instantly. The Trig Pillars
we all know and love, situated on hilltops
around the country have been replaced by a
network of OS GPS base stations. Our surveyors
are equipped with a receiver that collects data
from the GPS satellites and, via an internet
link over the mobile phone network, corrections
are received using data from the OS’s base
stations. And that’s just one of the clever
bits of technology we use in carrying out
surveys for our clients!
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Trimble VRS GPS system |
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A
railway survey
with a difference!
As
well as the services outlined in this
newsletter, we can always come up with a
solution for any measuring problem. One of our
more unusual enquires last year was from a long
established client who is also a model railway
enthusiast. In his back yard he has an HO scale
train set winding its way through a model of the
Canadian Rockies! He needed a plan of the layout
showing the route and the track gradients for an
article in a model railway magazine. We came up
with the idea of mounting a small target on the
back of a railway truck and surveying its
position with one of our £20000 instruments as
it moved around the track. Not hugely dissimilar
to techniques we have used previously on real,
full size railway tracks – but this was a
rather safer environment to work in!
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Good
Lord’s – I’ve seen the light !
Following the comprehensive topographical and
measured building survey we carried out at Lord’s
Cricket Ground we were asked to carry out a
further survey for new floodlights at the ground.
In order to allow evening matches to be
played Lord’s is adding 6 retractable
floodlights that can be quickly erected when
required. We carried out detailed surveys of
each base position and surveyed the extent any
potential obstacles, such as tree canopies, that
could effect the deployment of the lights.
Sections through the stands were surveyed and
all the information was related back to the
pitch position. So next time you are watching a
floodlit match at Lord’s, don’t forget that
you can only see what’s going on thanks to
Bury Associates!
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What
a Corker
Earlier
this summer (you know…summer – that time of
year when the rain is slightly warmer!) we
received an email from a small wine producer
near Bordeaux asking if we could survey his
hillside vineyard so they could design a new
drainage system, and produce a survey of his
neighbour’s extensive riverside property for
landscaping. Purely due to the complexity of the
task, Steve Bury decided he had best do this job
himself, so off he flew to France with a large
collection of survey kit entrusted to the
infamous French baggage handlers. After
suffering lunches of Pate Fois Gras, some of the
finest wines known to man and being driven
around all week in a Bentley, he returned tanned
and slightly more portly to process the survey
and catch up with the week’s paperwork.
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Bury
Associates gets arty
Bury Associates have surveyed buildings as
diverse as museums, small houses, care homes,
shops and offices over the last few months.
Salford Museum and Art Gallery is due for a
major refurbishment and Bury Associates were
commissioned to carry out a complicated Measured
Building Survey of the site. As well as
providing highly detailed floor plans, internal
elevations and sections, a 3D CAD model of the
whole building was generated from the survey.
To assist another client in their design
process, we were commissioned to carry out a
comprehensive survey of Cheltenham Museum &
Art Gallery, which is also lined up for a major
improvement program over the next few years.
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Pole
Position for Bury Associates Surveyors
After completing a survey around the Jaguar
Plant in Coventry, Phil Tapp &Paul Levett
had an exclusive tour of recent Formula 1 cars
and the powerful XJ220 road car.
It had to be pointed out to them that these
vehicles did not have sufficient boot space for
surveying kit, so they were not suitable for
company use!
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Formula 1 cars at Coventry's
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Licensing
Act Plans
We
are producing Licensing 2003 Act plans for
Wyevale Garden Centre’s across the country, as
well as for the expansion at Daylesford Organics
across London.
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Express
delivery of site plans for major distribution
company
Our
surveyors have been travelling the length &
breadth of the UK to produce site plans showing
adjacent water courses for hundreds of depots of
one of the world’s leading courier &
distribution company. Sites as far north as
Inverness and down to the tip of Cornwall have
been completed so far, with many more currently
underway.
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Surfs
Up
The
weekend of the 20th September, saw
Bury Associates take its annual trip to Rhossili
on the Gower peninsula where activities included
surfing, canoeing, kite buggies and boarding,
and the finest steaks Wales has to offer.
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