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Painting a vivid picture of the world around us.

Geospatial, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) & Geomatics

Painting a vivid picture of the world around us.

Geospatial, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) & Geomatics

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Geomatics and Geospatial data enable us to construct a digital twin of the world around us, offering infrastructure designers and developers valuable, location-based insights.

Those insights translate to time and money savings, improvements to accuracy and the strengthening of relationships across teams.

We’ve been helping our clients collect, analyse, manage and share data for over 25 years, making a critical contribution to project safety and performance.

Our team can take your project and your project data from concept right through construction and in to operation or even end of life, managing or passing over a perfect audit trail for every data point.

What is Spatial Data?“We can take your project and your project data from concept right through construction and in to operation or even end of life, managing or passing over a perfect audit trail for every data point.”

Our experience across a diverse range of sectors, disciplines and geographies ensures our clients benefit from the breadth and depth of our capability.

Geospatial, GIS & Geomatics Overview

Geospatial, GIS & Geomatics Overview

Our ExpertiseOur experience across a diverse range of sectors, disciplines and geographies ensures our clients benefit from the breadth and depth of our capability. We are the spatial data experts you need in order to provide your entire project team with the support and tools, giving them timely, up-to-date information on which to build better decision-making.

We specialise in unlocking value through data capture, data analytics, data management, process automation and collaborative data visualisation.

Our expertise in creating single source of truth Common Data Environments (CDEs) is unmatched, with a deep understanding of both traditional spatial data types and also the wide range of formats from other project disciplines, including a strong working knowledge of CAD files.

To ensure your project team has a holistic understanding of project opportunities and constraints it is critical that this data is presented in a comprehensive yet comprehensible format. With expertise in both visualization and interoperability translation, we can make that happen.

Our specialists create rapid iterable scripts or custom-designed tools, unlocking team resources for analytical and interpretive work which would otherwise be spent on repetitive and remedial tasks. In the era of big data, from Lidar point clouds to mobile phone activity, our automation capabilities also allow us to efficiently handle larger datasets, mining data for rapid new insights.

We create scaleable, automated and auditable sCDE’s for clients, incorporating varying disciplines’ data formats while ensuring interoperability. By establishing an sCDE in the earliest project stages, data can be efficiently used throughout the full project or asset lifecycle. Data is costly to gather; we can make sure that you don’t need to do it twice.

Data Intelligence We’ve been helping colleagues source, analyse, manage and share this data for over 25 years. Here’s what we can do for you.

Our geospatial team are at the forefront of the data science revolution, building on our traditional skills of automated feature identification and other efficient workflows.

SourceWe put the information you need at your fingertips.

We collect geospatial data, that is, location data, to meet all project requirements, from the largest and most complex infrastructure challenges to small or

specialist solutions.

ShareBring your project to life.

We help colleagues and clients visualise spatial data through the provision of 2D paper maps for reports,

3D visualisations or fly-throughs.

Analyse Unlock the value of the information you already hold.

Our analysts can help you determine the best site for a new warehouse, retail outlet, road, rail line or even a nuclear plant. Our expertise and advanced technology saves you

time, and reduces costs.

ManageWe’ll help you design, construct and operate

assets efficiently.

Our wealth of knowledge and our commitment to maintaining the highest industry standards (building information modelling

(BIM) including ISO 19650 processes) makes us the perfect partner on large infrastructure projects.

Geospatial, GIS & Geomatics Our Services

Geospatial Analysis

We provide the data and intelligence that organisations need to design, build and operate their most valuable assets. We use advanced technology to transform the raw survey data gathered from a site into a powerful decision making tool. We offer a comprehensive range of survey and mapping services, from small-scale ground-based investigation to wide-area aerial 3D

mapping. Our experienced teams work closely with clients to identify a data collection method that meets their project and cost requirements, and to deliver the insight needed; whether it is to inform the design of a new development, optimise the route of new infrastructure or update existing building or site records for asset management purposes.

Advanced Survey & Mapping Services

Geospatial, GIS & Geomatics Our Services

ManageOur wealth of knowledge and our commitment to maintaining the highest industry standards (BIM - including ISO 19650 processes) makes us the perfect partner on large infrastructure projects.

Capture Digital survey techniques enable us to capture data

quickly and efficiently, even across vast sites. It is collected in high definition to create comprehensive data sets that can be used for multiple applications.

CreateWe create the highest quality digital survey data

products available in the market place by drawing on the latest developments in technology and our

extensive engineering expertise.

ConsultWe offer innovative survey and mapping services

and access to our worldwide network of experts. We help our clients articulate their data

requirements and deliver value for money.

We provide infrastructure and asset management projects with invaluable insights through locational data science, save time and money, improve accuracy, and strengthen client relationships.

We believe that BIM represents the future of our industry and we have implemented the approach on many of our projects. We’re confident that it has helped us deliver better than we could have using traditional methods.

We are providing advice to the UK government on its BIM strategy and we were one of the first companies to adopt ISO 44001, which provides guidance on successful approaches to collaborative working within the supply chain

and ultimately helps us to help our clients make better decisions.

In addition to this UK government advice, our colleague Barry Hall, a principal GIS consultant, is a member of the BSI Committee representing B/555 Construction, Modelling and Data Exchange, who represent the interests of BSI across Europe (CEN) and worldwide (ISO).

Geospatial, GIS & Geomatics Our Services

As we move towards smart cities and a digital revolution for our buildings and infrastructure, information will play an increasingly significant role. BIM is an important step towards realising this vision - redefining and challenging how we deliver projects in our industry, changing everything from the tools we use, the skills we require and our relationships with clients.

BIM

Rich 3D mapping can be used in a virtual reality environment for purposes as diverse as staff training or public consultation.

A drone service fit for the digital age

Drone technology is enabling significant safety improvements as well as time, cost and quality enhancements across a broad spectrum of engineering projects. We adopt a considered approach to drone technology and utilise it on projects where it adds true value.

Geospatial, GIS & Geomatics Our Services

The professional application of drone technology permits:

› Lower cost surveys

› Higher quality and more versatile data

› Data captured in difficult to access areas

› Reduced time on site and disruption from the survey works

› Much improved safety of the survey operation

Unmanned Aerial Surveys

Geospatial, GIS & Geomatics Delivery Enhancement Tools

With our surveys producing more and more data, the industry needs a way to share this information with clients, contractors, and colleagues without them requiring expensive software packages and high-spec computers.

Cirrus Insite is a web-based portal where heavydata such as point clouds are hosted, with thecapability for the entire project team to access. Using the tool you can view the data completely in-browser, offering an intuitive interface un-reliant on any installed software.

Users can perform simple analysis operationssuch as measurements in 2D and 3D, cut and fill analytics to determine approximate

extraction and infilling volumes for proposed linear developments through uneven terrain, point cloud feature labelling, shaded height maps, and toggleable feature layers.

With rapid data load speed, navigating complex point clouds is possible even on a standard issue laptop, making communication of issues, or optioneering discussion possible in real time. Rather than sending screenshots or requiring your team to have software, this in-browser speed means you can now share and discuss data within a live meeting environment, facilitating fast decision making to drive projects forward.

Cirrus Insite offers a Digital Twin Platform for survey data. Completely developed in-house, the platform provides a secure, convenient solution for viewing, sharing and analysing 2D & 3D survey deliverables such as point clouds and orthophotos. More people and projects are now able to benefit from the vast amounts of intelligent data that our aerial surveys provide.

Spatial Common Data Environment

Better managed and more accessible geospatial data for everyone, saving time and reducing errors.

Geospatial, GIS & Geomatics Delivery Enhancement Tools

Our Spatial Common Data Environment (sCDE) provides a centrally managed spatial data location, offering a single source of truth. The system has been completely developed in house, designed to solve the issue of spatial data not being accessible when in a design CDE such as ProjectWise.

We create scaleable, automated and auditable sCDEs for clients, incorporating varying disciplines’ data formats while ensuring interoperability. By establishing an sCDE in the earliest project stages, data can be efficiently used throughout the full project or asset lifecycle. Data is costly to gather; we can make sure you and your clients don’t need to do it twice.

Our sCDE was a key contributor to Atkins becoming the first UK BIM Kite mark certified consultancy.

› Connect to common desktop software; or bypass desktop software entirely to access via our cloud WebMaps

› Access for all appropriate stakeholders including sub-contractors, clients and stakeholders

› Fully auditable versioned data, and metadata

› Data standards, attribution and web site branding can be amended to suit any infrastructure project

› Speed and efficiency; data is stored and processed once and immediately available to the entire project team.

RAPID is a collaborative, tailorable, web-based, multi-faceted design and decision support tool that enables clients to plan, assess, review and decide in both 2D and 3D visualisation deployable / temporary infrastructure so enabling optimisation of cost, time, use of resources and real estate, environmental impact, safety and security.

The tool enables clients to develop camp design options using four stages: requirements capture, concept and developed design, and user review in virtual reality and scorecard views.

With a catalogue of currently over 300 records, clients have access to a wide variety of military and commercial off the shelf (COTS) assets, which can be configured to reflect their preferred suppliers and particular needs.

RAPID

Bespoke assets can be built to create a truly customised camp. Flo is the first end-to-end iPad and cloud-based scanning solution.

We are focused on helping our clients deliver the best passenger experience by reducing potential delays, while improving passenger safety and optimising business operations through a real-time digital damage assessment solution.

Flo is a new digital, cloud and iPad-based solution designed to reduce damage assessment time by up to 90%. Using state of the art 3D scanning technology integrated into iPads, Flo enables users to quickly record damage and share the information globally to rapidly enable real time assessment.

The system is an end-to-end cloud-based solution, enabling all damage data to be instantly uploaded to the database making it accessible to any user across the globe in real time.

Flo

Geospatial, GIS & Geomatics Data Analytics Tools

Data Analytics Tools

Geospatial, GIS & Geomatics Our Work

Our WorkWe’ve worked on all major infrastructure projects in the UK, and worldwide, over the past 25 years. Our wealth of knowledge and alignment with the highest industry standards (building information modelling (BIM) including ISO 19650 processes) makes us the perfect partner on large infrastructure projects. Scottish Power Renewables Digital

EIA Strategy

We collaborated with environmental and renewables specialists to create a comprehensive Digital EIA strategy for offshore and onshore wind development within ScottishPower, ahead of major contract awards. Collaborative client workshops defined a practical and high achieving definition of Digital Assessment, and set out contractual, data, and regulatory requirements.

Environment Led Design

We took a revolutionary approach to design six potential rail routes for Bedford to Cambridge in just six weeks. Given environmental constraints are the most frequent cause of costly design rework, we assessed these first, conducting multi-criteria GIS analysis to generate centrelines for our designers.

Transport for London (TfL), Aerial Surveys, London, UK

The operator of London’s underground rail system required high-resolution aerial imagery and topographic mapping to assist with planning and to inform its upgrades to the network. TfL requested as close to 2cm resolution imagery and survey accuracy as could be achieved.

NetCreate

NetCreate is a digital tool which uses global open source GIS datasets to create a coarse wastewater network for master planning purposes on a repeatable basis, using minimum data requirements of population distribution, road layout and Digital Terrain Model (DTM). The datasets are used to automatically assign the route of least resistance from each property along defined roads.

ThamesConnectTo improve coordination and communication between Thames Water/eight2O’s internal programmes of work and wider stakeholders, we sought a digital solution using a Digital Incubator. We developed stakeholder engagement strategies and undertook several iterative build, measure and learn cycles to finally create ‘ThamesConnect’: a geospatial platform that allows internal and external programme teams to share programme data, achieving exponential cost savings.

Network Rail, Colwyn Bay

We undertook several drone surveys on behalf on Network Rail to assess the condition of sea defences for exposed coastal rail lines. The use of drones allowed for capture of high-resolution images, from which a 3D point cloud was generated, acting as a perfect digital replica of the real site and reducing the need for access to potentially hazardous environments.

Geospatial, GIS & Geomatics Our Work

Our Work

Nuclear Site Selection Tool

We supported the criteria development and assessment of suitability and risk for future site selection of nuclear power stations. Criteria were mapped out using geographic information systems to help assess potential sites for new installations.

Vegetation Encroachment Monitoring

We developed a remote proof of concept methodology to identify vegetation encroachment of rail lines, solely from LIDAR. Our automation of this complex analysis method will enable safe digital remote working, and reduce costs for UK railways.

A14, Highways Agency

Thanks to continued success supporting the contractor delivery team, the Geospatial Team has significantly expanded to being a key collaborator in the A14’s BIM strategy, identifying the appropriate strategy and As-Built client data deliverables to maximise the benefits to the project.

Havant Thicket Reservoir

The new reservoir will be the first for the south east since the 1970s, and represents a decade long project for Atkins. During the project we are prioritising stringent data versioning, interoperability between our sCDE and design systems, and clear visualisation of the final design.

A9 Spatial Data Management

Our work on the A9 has put our data management platforms on the frontline of infrastructure development in Scotland, providing seamless BIM compliant data management support via our sCDE and webGIS, alongside complex analysis services, and STEM support.

Marine Scotland - Nmpi Marine Portal

We were tasked to design and build a fully public custom visualisation portal for marine data relevant to planning decisions. Now active (https://marinescotland.atkinsgeospatial.com/nmpi), members of the planning community can overlay, query and conduct simple analysis, providing a single point of truth.

Kenya Transportation Gap Study

Kenya is experiencing rapid population growth and increasing urbanisation which is putting strain on a transport network with a historic investment deficit. We have conducted a study to identify gaps in the countries transport infrastructure and propose interventions for addressing these gaps.

HEPConnect - Heathrow

As part of an integrated delivery team we facilitatated improved engagement with utility companies impacted by the Heathrow Expansion Programme. To date, the overall deliverables include HEP Connect Communications Hub, Doc Portal and Map.

Geospatial, GIS & Geomatics Our Values

Our Values

Company Operations Scope and Size

SNC Lavalin currently has 50,000+ employees spread across 50 countries

We are trusted partners to world-leading organisations and we are committed to maintaining high standards of service. Our in-house production and quality assurance procedures include checks at all stages of a project from data capture through to delivery. We also pride ourselves on meeting or exceeding wider industry expectations. Our team upholds the standards of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (ICES) and The Survey Association (TSA). We also assure our clients that their data is being managed appropriately. We hold ISO27001 certification, and meet TickITplus and the UK Government’s Cyber Essentials Plus standards.

Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin group, is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering, defence and project management consultancies, able to draw on the knowledge and expertise of more than 50,000 colleagues worldwide. And with over 9,000 staff across the UK, we’re the UK’s largest engineering consultancy.

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Middle East & Africa17,500 employees

Asia Pacific4,500 employees

Europe12,000 employees

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