Working in a live highway environment requires staff to be experienced and well trained. The constant danger and traffic noise from vehicles speeding through the work place requires the utmost concentration both to carry out the surveying task and to remain vigilant to all that is going on around you.

Kemp have been working in this type of environment for over 20 years and have been employed on the UK’s busiest motorways and trunk roads to carry out surveys and setting out works for consultants, contractors and local authorities.

Our staff have a wealth of experience in working in the challenging environment of live road works 

All sites are visited prior to works being undertaken, traffic management systems agreed with the client in advance and method statements and risk assessments are prepared. Prior to surveyors being deployed on site they are briefed fully upon the task to be carried out.

Surveys are carried out using non-contact methods wherever possible to ensure that the disruption to traffic is minimised and the safety of the survey team is not compromised. Night working can be undertaken with traffic management to ensure that there is no disruption to heavy daytime traffic flows.

Road surveys for maintenance dictate that level control must be established to the highest order as mm mean money in the world of surfacing. All survey control points are double run with a digital level reading a barcode staff to ensure that there are no anomalies. Our experience in setting out for road surfacing means that we are more than aware of the problems that poor level control, established by GPS or EDM, can cause during the construction phase.