Putting Surveyors Back at the Centre of Reality Capture
As reality capture technology becomes increasingly accessible, industry conversations have often focused on speed, automation and tools. While these advances bring clear benefits, they can sometimes overlook the professional expertise required to ensure accuracy, control and trust in geospatial data. A new joint article from The Survey Association and Leica Geosystems, Guardians of Precision: the […]
The Power of Social Value
Wellbeing and experience Personal wellbeing is being acknowledged more and more, both in the workplace and in society. Many things impact our wellbeing, which influence and shape our health and welfare, in our work lives and our personal ones. Personal experience is an important part of our company’s social value goals and people are the ones […]
Powers’ 12 posts of Christmas – a look back at 2023
January At Powers, we are committed to looking at ways in which we can reduce our carbon emissions in the ongoing journey towards net zero. To this end, we reviewed our carbon emissions in January and updated our environmental targets for 2023 https://tinyurl.com/mvpznb3f. We were also pleased to see the launch of the Save Construction […]
Powering on: 50 years of geospatial surveying
Early days “Eric Tiltman set up the original business known as EVE Tiltman. He was an engineering surveyor and my father, Mike Powers had worked with Eric on a few projects in the late 60s early 70s . Eric began to take on some larger projects and approached Mike to partner up with him. Mike and […]
The importance of collaboration
Geospatial surveyors are key collaborators with many different professions. They can be part of many processes and also can contribute to the form and shape of projects beyond their timelines. It’s important to ensure that land surveyors become involved at as early a stage as possible, so that clients can ensure they get the team […]
Apprenticeship Week 2022: meet Joe
Name and current year Joe, 1st year Where are you studying? I am studying at Dudley College Why did you choose an apprenticeship, instead of a day release course or learning on the job? I didn’t want to go to university, that route of studying wasn’t my ideal plan. How are you finding the mix […]
Celebrating the Winter Solstice
What is the winter solstice? The Winter Solstice is the shortest day with the longest night each year in the Northern Hemisphere. It marks the official start of winter. But what does it mean? The Earth tilts at an angle where the sun appears at its lowest point. For many cultures, this is the ‘death’ of the sun, as the daylight is decreasing. However, when daylight […]