South East Site Engineers Articles

The importance of fit-for-purpose building standards cannot be stressed enough now that housing development programmes are set to be reignited under our new government. With ambitious items on the agenda such as 1.5 million new homes over the next parliament and a set of planning reforms designed to accelerate building projects; we are all awaiting […]

We recently had the opportunity to deliver on a month-long ground penetrating radar survey of utilities for a renewable energy solar farm project in Exeter. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a geophysical technique that uses radar pulses to image the subsurface, and is often used by underground surveyors to identify buried objects, such as pipes, cables, […]

For at least 12 of our past 20 years in business, one of our mainstays at South East Site Engineers has been the topographical land surveys, GPR underground utility surveys and construction setting out of UK solar farms. During the first half of this 12-year period the solar renewable energy industry sector was booming, with […]

Within the movement monitoring, site engineering and GPR services industry many now believe that the pandemic has come to an end. However, are we really seeing any light at the end of the tunnel within our now decimated construction sector? For those of us that thought COVID-19 would only affect the mental well-being of those […]

Here at SESE we offer a range of site setting out services from installing Primary Survey Controls to Setting Out brickwork. All work is carried out by an experienced setting out surveyor or setting out engineer; and we use only the latest Robotic Leica and Trimble Total Stations with high specification, ensuring accurate and efficient […]

Site engineering surveyors are one of the very first people a property developer would engage when considering any form of construction or refurbishment of their property or land. It is often the developers’ architect that first engages a site engineering surveyor for the initial measured building survey or topographical land survey, depending on whether it […]

One of the questions our monitoring surveyors often get asked at SESE Ltd is whether structural movement is the same as subsidence? The simple answer to this is no; however, I’m sure, since you have opened this article, you would like to know why. Subsidence is caused by the settlement of a grounds structure, whereas […]

Over two thousand years, London has gradually developed from being a small roman enclave into one of the most cosmopolitan (and metropolitan) cities in the world, with a population of over 9 million people speaking over three hundred languages. During the reign of Lucius Septimius Severus, a topographical survey of Londinium as it was called […]

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) although a relatively new surveying technique for the construction and measured surveys industry, has been in use for almost a century as a scanning technique in both the medical and military arenas. As a non-destructive engineering survey technique, below ground GPR surveys are an alternative underground utility mapping service, for environments […]

All too commonplace within the construction industry, are stories where a small error in positioning and setting out can cause immense knock-on effects to the project and bottom-line. The block of flats in Colchester that were built the wrong way around just last October, a £12m development project in Stane Park where a mis-position of […]

There have been several incidences over the years where structural movement monitoring would have come in very useful. In November 2020, two West London townhouses collapsed during construction work that was going on inside them; considering that less than a year before this, a similar townhouse on the same terrace sold for more than £15,000,000 […]

Structural Movement Monitoring, put simply, is the process of measuring and assessing the effects of a construction activity, demolition activity or civil engineering companies’ groundworks activity on an adjacent structure, usually within a metre or so of the construction site. This damage monitoring survey technique is carried out over fixed predetermined return periods (during the […]