Bond Street Station Upgrade

Southdowns has been appointed to provide construction noise and vibration consultancy services to the main Contractor responsible for implementing the upgrade of the Bond Street London Underground station. Significant construction related challenges are involved in the delivery of the new sub surface infrastructure, scheduled to be completed in 6 years time. Works include: – A […]

Railway Procurement Agency – Rep. of Ireland

We are pleased to announce that Southdowns has been awarded a 5 year contract to provide specialist noise and vibration consultancy services to the Railway Procurement Agency in Ireland. The services covered under the contract include the co-ordination and management of noise and vibration measurement surveys, noise and vibration prediction and assessment, peer reviewing of […]

Strategic Road Traffic Noise Mapping

Southdowns has recently completed the construction and testing of a full road traffic noise model for a London Borough Local Planning Authority. The model which has been developed to a level of detail equitable to those prepared for DEFRA’s Noise Mapping England, will provide the Local Planning Authority with an interactive strategic tool for its […]

Thames Tunnel Consultation

The recent announcement by Thames Water on public consultation over its plans for 32 km of new tunnels to divert sewage from existing combined sewer overflows (CSOs), which currently discharge direct into the River Thames some 50 times per annum, highlights the noise and vibration sensitivities inevitably associated with major infrastructure projects of this kind […]

DLR Woolwich Extension Unveiled

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, officially unveiled the £180m extension of the Docklands Light Railway, from King George V to the new Woolwich Arsenal station on the 14th January 2009. The 2.5km extension was designed and built by Morgan Est/Colas Rail joint venture with Halcrow, and was completed two months ahead of schedule. project […]

Crossrail Bill

Southdowns has provided technical services to the London Local Planning Authorities for nearly three years on a number of generic (routewide) and local noise and vibration issues. The publication of the Special Report marks a milestone in the development of the Crossrail project, and draws to a close Southdowns’ involvement on behalf of the petitioners […]

Network Rail Framework

The framework agreement will run for four years and is in place to assist the streamlining of Network Rail’s procurement of consultancy services.