Mason have delivered major projects to government agencies at all levels, both in the UK and internationally.

Sectors and services:

National Mapping Agencies

Long term projects have been completed for national mapping agencies in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal and Greece.

Many projects relate to the update of digital map data over large areas. Often data is captured from aerial photography by Mason using the latest softcopy photogrammetic workstations.

The Photogrammetry Department at Mason is one of the largest commercial operations in the UK. Its skilled personnel have a proven track record of delivering large programs on time and to budget. Mason can provide total processing within the UK.

A recent two year project for the Ordnance Survey of Ireland was completed by teams working in shifts, 24 hours a day. Vectors were captured to 1:5,000 scale over rural areas, from 1:40,000 scale aerial photography. Each feature could have up to 8 attributes, requiring efficient creation of topology and robust QA procedures.

Ministry of Defence

Measured building surveys, land and aerial photogrammetric surveys have been performed for Defence Estates. Surveys have been completed on RAF bases around the UK and abroad; including RAF Brawdy, RAE (Royal Aircraft Establishment) West Freugh, RAFC (Royal Air Force College) Cranwell

RAF Barkston Heath, HM Garrison Dhekelia. Obstruction surveys have also been provided. More information is available on our airports web page.

Environment Agency

During the 1990s a number of extensive river surveys were conducted throughout the Midlands and South of England on behalf of the UK’s Environment Agency. The main method of data capture was by photogrammetry using stereo aerial photography; this provides accurate height information on those features collected.

Surveys were produced to support construction of the famous Thames Barrier, built to defend London against flooding. Mason have also conducted a number of surveys related to other flood defence schemes. Beach profile surveys and monitoring services have been provided to the Environment Agency, utilising GPS technology.

Central Government

Mason provide services to various central government organisations. Measured building surveys and asset inventories have been completed for the Cabinet Office. CAD processing followed the surveys in order to standardise the level of detail, layering and office furniture content across the organisations database.

Numerous surveys have been completed on transportation projects of national significance. Some completed directly for government organisations, others for contractors working on behalf of government. Mason worked extensively on the East & West Coast Mainline rail modernisation programs, plus extensive topographical survey in support of the M6 (Toll) Northern Relief Road scheme.

Working through its partner TerraImaging, Mason are a member of a LIDAR survey consortium providing surveys to the UK Highways Agency under a framework program.

Mason have worked extensively at airports operated by the British Airports Authority for the past 8 years. Completing topographical surveys, construction related survey, structure monitoring and performing obstruction surveys. More information is available on our airports web page (hyperlink). Airport surveys have also been provided at MoD bases in the UK and overseas.

Mason are a framework partner to Her Majesties Prison Service; providing surveys to architects and service companies responsible for the UK’s prisons. Both topographical and measured building surveys have been delivered.

Local Government

Numerous projects have been completed for councils throughout the UK and Ireland. Projects fall into three main areas; those that require topographical survey, those that require measured building survey and those that are office based.

Topographical surveys have been conducted in support of construction projects, flood defence schemes, park development and road projects. In addition to survey above ground, such projects often require tracing of underground services. Mason also have experience of tree surveys and street furniture surveys; utilizing the latest GPS equipment for rapid digital feature acquisition.

Measured building surveys have been provided to local government for all types of government owned buildings; including town halls, offices, municipal leisure centres and social housing. Numerous surveys have been delivered to Housing Associations.

Mason have worked on various projects to digitise paper based records and to create related databases. The transferral of archived planning records into digital form is one such example.

Right to Buy

Measured building surveys and boundary surveys have been produced for Manchester City Council and other authorities selling houses under the Right To Buy program.

Police Forces

A number of forces have taken advantage of our expertise in providing timely measured building surveys. Work has focussed on providing surveys of police stations and other police properties. Office furniture and other assets can be inventoried for input into facilities management software.

Education Service

Mason have provided topographical and construction related surveys to support building and development projects at a number of UK schools, colleges and universities. Topo survey and setting out tasks have recently been produced for the University of Surrey. Measured building surveys are provided to schools in support of condition surveys.

Health Service

Boundary surveys, topographical surveys and measured building surveys have been provided at hospital sites all over the country. Quite often surveys are produced to aid contractors with new development or refurbishment projects.

Notable projects

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