Onside PR have secured media coverage for the Titan 65o in The Construction Index.
The UK’s leading magazine for contractors, plant hirers and other companies in the construction supply chain were mightily impressed with the Titan 650.
They claim the industry is dogged by ‘outdated’ techniques and technologies and heaped praise on the Atlas Pile Testing team.
Construction Index Editor David Taylor, a respected construction industry journalist with more than 25-years experience, writes in the October issue how the pile testing industry ‘largely lives in the past.’
He claims there is ‘still too high a risk of accidents as ‘people continue to work too closely to high-pressure hydraulics’ despite the advancement of testing procedures in the UK.
He writes: “It is 20 years since the Institution of Civil Engineers launched the Specification for Piling and Embedded Retaining Walls (SPERWall) and for clients, engineers and contractors, it remains the leading authority on piling and retaining walls in the UK and Europe.
“The industry demands increasing standards of accuracy and transparency, and higher levels of safety – all of which the Atlas Pile Testing Systems appears to be able to satisfy.
“Clearly much has changed since the publication of the first edition in 1996 and technological innovations have allowed the construction industry in general to make huge advances.
“Wireless and Bluetooth technology, remotely controllable heavy plant, 3D modeling, asset mapping, cloud computing and predictive software have transformed the industry.
“The Third Edition of SPERWall, published earlier this year in response to developments in piling techniques and changes to European standards, is designed to set new standards for safety and accuracy.
“Yet for some reason, the piling industry largely lives in the past, relying on outdated technology that was used long before the ICE drafted that first edition of SPERWall.”
Taylor is confused by the fact that dangers for operatives still remain despite the fact that testing procedures in the UK have advanced. Somewhere along the line, there is a disconnect.
He adds: “There is still too high a risk of accidents as people continue to work too close to high-pressure hydraulics exerting thousands of tonnes of load. This should be avoided if at all possible as any fault, error or failure in the system could result in serious injury.”
“Harnessing the technology used in other departments of the Datum Group, O’Rourke’s engineers spent two years developing and trialing a new, fully automated and unmanned static load testing system, the Titan 650.”
The Construction Index has a circulation of more than 40,000 readers and is well respected within the construction industry.
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