The Datum Group have been honoured for their work at Garrion Gill.
They were part of team shortlisted in the final three for the Fleming Award 2017.
Datum providing monitoring services as part of a team led by COWI UK , including Network Rail Infrastructure Projects Scotland, QTS Group Ltd and Cementation Skanska.
The £4.7 million project created a solution to an issue at Garrion Gill, an ancient woodland reserve, which was affected the West Coast Line for more than 60-years.
Garrion Gill clings to the slopes of the Garrion Burn and is home to diverse plant habitats, badgers, roe deer and birds including spotted flycatchers, sparrow hawks and woodcocks.
But records suggests the ground has been moving since the mid-20th Century and as a result, speed restrictions across a 65m section of track near Wishaw in Lanarkshire, have been in place since the 1950s.
The success of the 11-month project, led by COWI UK, means speeds restrictions have been lifted though longer-term monitoring remains in place.
Datum were tasked with providing track monitoring services using TrackMates across 300m of track to measure for potential track rotation.
TrackMates are innovative wireless track cant monitors which attach to any sleeper type and continually stream data wirelessly, sending alarms if upper or lower limits of movement are breached.
Datum deployed the SlopeMate and SlopeMate Arrays to monitor for potential slope movement ahead and during remedial works.
The project was featured in the December edition of Ground Engineering magazine and saw the team shortlisted for the Fleming Award.
The article highlights the innovative use of drilling and grouting, micro-piles and rock full buttresses used in the project which established a new approach to slope stabilisation. It finally allowed Network Rail to lift the speed restriction.
The Fleming Award is presented to recognise excellence in the practical application of geotechnics in a project.
It is organised by the British Geotechnical Association and is given annually to commemorate the life and work of former Cementation Skanska chief engineer Ken Fleming.
The Garrion Gill Slope Remediation Scheme was shortlisted for the Fleming Award alongside the Pines Hotel Cliff Stabilisation Scheme and the PISA Project, who were ultimately crowned winners of the award.
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