Halcrow profile

Halcrow Group Limited specialises in consultancy services, providing professional planning, design and management services for infrastructure development worldwide. Currently ranked as one of the UK's leading consultancies, we employ more than 6,500 people and generate a turnover in excess of £280 million (2006).

We have a well-established presence around the world, and provide services from 26 UK offices and a further 55 international locations. We contribute to commissions in over 70 countries providing consulting services to private and public sector organisations. Our client list is made up of organisations including contractors, developers, financial institutions, infrastructure operators and local, regional and national governments.

Geomatics and GIS

The Geomatics team is made up of over 200 skilled professionals. The work we perform combines extensive and global experience in topographic surveying, mapping and management of spatial data within primary areas including: geodesy, global positioning systems, precise deformation monitoring, swathe bathymetry, GIS, remote sensing, aerial photogrammetry, LiDAR, terrestrial laser scanning, engineering surveying and 3D visualisation. click to view Halcrow Geomatics pages.

Halcrow also has a microsite dedicated to maps, models and databases at www.halcrow.com/maps.

Best practice is driven through these disciplines by our team of highly experienced project managers. The use of lean management principles, risk and value registers and continuous project review exposes project waste thus ensuring effective and timely delivery.

Framework Offering(s)
The GIS team provides a full range of spatial data management services. Through critical analysis of proposed options, we develop complete solutions which effectively deal with customers needs. We work with a spectrum of software from the proprietary suppliers (MapInfo, ESRI, Intergraph, Bentley) through to Open Source Software (GRASS, MapServer) which is a reflection of our broad client base.

A combination of skills and services generally provides the most suitable solution so we have developed our capabilities in a number of areas to reflect this:

Consultancy: Recommendation of software procedures to optimise and streamline workflows, data security, implementation activities and pilot project objectives. Software development: Expand the usefulness of standard GIS platforms by developing software tailored to specific project needs: interfaces to foreign databases, data translation and data quality control.

Web design: Maximise the investment made in data collection by disseminating information via inter/intranet sites. Halcrow will implement web-based solutions within client organisations, or alternatively host on Halcrow servers.

Data management: The design, construction, manipulation and query of databases form a core part of the specialist knowledge of the team, with expertise in a range of relational databases, including Oracle, SQL Server and MSAccess. Customisation of databases to enhance functionality or streamline workflows for specific applications is offered.

Field-data collection: Halcrow offer a vast experience in the collection of field data. This ranges from national asset surveys through to topographic survey work. Halcrow employ the latest hardware including GPS field loggers with live connections to corporate databases.

Training: Comprehensive training, user reference guides and on-going support form part of our deliverable to ensure you, the Customer receives the full benefit of your investment.

Map production: Chart production for site maps, atlases and bathymetric drawings