b'20 Partner News Spring 2021EnterpriseSOCOTEC Monitoring awarded monitoring contract for HS2 C1 main works packageSOCOTEC Monitoring has been awardedprior to, during and after the two HS2 LtdAs leaders in the installation of borehole the contract for monitoring third partytunnels have been driven under the M25instrumentation, and being geographically assets, earthworks, and structures on theinterface, and a new method of measuringlocated in Uckfield in the South East of HS2 C1 Main Works package, a key sectionsettlement at regular intervals in boreholesEngland, SOCOTEC Monitoring is ideally of Phase One of the new high-speed railusing the Osprey Measurement Systemsplaced to deliver this crucial monitoring network between London and Birmingham. IPX in-place extensometer. More traditionalproject.borehole instrumentation will also beThe C1 route starts approximately 20km to Responsible for delivering the mainused throughout the four-year monitoringthe west of central London and runs across works civils contract (Lot C1) of HS2, thecontract, including in-place inclinometersthe Colne Valley and then through the biggest transport infrastructure projectand piezometers. Chiltern Hills to the north west. It consists in the United Kingdom, Align joint ventureof 21.6km of high speed rail infrastructure in contracted SOCOTEC Monitoring toCommenting on the high-profile contracta rural environment, and includes what will supply, install and monitor instrumentationwin, Jon Scott, managing director atbecome a landmark 3.37km viaduct across along the 21.6km route, as well as recordSOCOTEC Monitoring, said: This project isthe Colne Valley, and a 16.04km twin-bored and deliver the resulting data via Calyxa significant win for SOCOTEC Monitoring,tunnel with five vent shafts handling both OMS, SOCOTEC Monitorings online dataon top of also delivering the monitoring forintervention and tunnel ventilation facilities.visualisation platform. the S1 and S2 works packages. Monitoring of the tunnel portals, approaches to the The monitoring system will make use oftunnels and the escape and ventilation several innovative techniques, includingshafts along the tunnel passage is crucial, patch scanning total stations to monitorto ensure that properties along the route Highways Englands assets for movementare protected.'