Supporting the development and operation of new and existing road infrastructure
We provide support and services that ensure your highway assets are kept in optimal operating condition throughout their lifecycle.
Road and highway infrastructure make crucial contributions to the economic and developmental growth of our society. They are of crucial importance to UK industry, not to mention the fact that they are the pillars of most of our day-to-day activities.
Roads provide us with access to employment, social, health and education services and stimulate economic and social development. For these reasons, road infrastructure is one of the most important of all public assets.
Whether it’s for existing infrastructure or new road developments or modifications, Sixense are able to deploy numerous solutions that can ensure the ongoing safety of highway assets either during construction or operation.
We assist road operators and highways agencies to ensure the optimal level of service from their infrastructure.
Our solutions and services support highway infrastructure throughout its lifecycle
We provide the road and highways industry with a variety of solutions and support services that are designed to optimise and prolong the life cycle of this important infrastructure.
- Support the digitalisation of your infrastructure and processes
- Offer decision-making and reporting support tools
- Qualify the risks associated with road projects via specialist engineering and structural, geotechnical and environmental monitoring
- Advise on the levels of climate vulnerability to the operation the resilience of rail infrastructure
- Produce digital twins as well as the modelling of your infrastructure.
Ensuring the safe performance of highway infrastructure.
With road network projects, it is essential to have reliable knowledge of the risks linked to the terrain, the environment and the infrastructure itself. This can provide the necessary level of safety during the design & construction phase, as well as for future operation.
Highway and road construction projects are always under pressure to comply with increasing productivity requirements, tightening budgets and stricter health and safety requirements.
In addition, when highway networks are in operation, it is important to ensure optimal levels of service in order to avoid congestion and promote quick, reliable and safe journeys for those using the infrastructure. Anticipating maintenance needs and the climatic resilience of infrastructures are therefore fundamental factors.
Knowledge of the assets condition is therefore essential for optimising maintenance.
We provide solutions and support services during the life cycle of your rail assets
Instrumentation and Monitoring
We work in accordance with latest Highways England monitoring standards and operate throughout the UK and Northern Europe, delivering high precision, cost effective and, most importantly, safe rail infrastructure monitoring solutions.
Services include designing, supplying, installing, managing and maintaining custom instrumentation and monitoring systems that measure the impact on existing road networks from adjacent development or on new road networks during their construction, as well as long term structural health monitoring systems.
Our solutions enable highways asset owners the opportunity to understand the structural integrity and condition of their assets.
We provide a variety of monitoring solutions that record geotechnical behaviour, structural movement, and environmental impact
Monitoring solutions can range from simple manual survey techniques, such as Precise Level & 3D Prism or retro Target Surveys as well as geotechnical instrumentation in groundworks, through to fully automated site based solutions comprising Cyclops ATS systems and datalogged structural instrumentation.
Our in-house Atlas InSAR monitoring solution, capable of undertaking precise and efficient measurements of entire road networks, incorporating geospatial data acquired from satellites is also available.
Asset Mapping
Working with our sister company, Sixense Helimap, we are able to undertake high precision LiDAR and photogrammetric data acquisition and processing services.
We use helicopters, drones and terrestrial vehicles to undertake high precision, surveys of road networks, safely and efficiently.
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- Road/Highway corridor network mapping
- Mapping of complex and inaccessible areas
- High precision / resolution (1-10 cm)
- Thermal / Near Infrared Reflectance / Oblique / Panoramic imaging
Our expertise allows us to deploy rapidly and produce high-precision data for small to medium areas.