Our company was formed in the early 80’s by Paul Hope-Darby. After quitting his career as a saturation diver and later as a project manager involved in the pioneering heavy oilfield construction projects in the North Sea, France, Africa and the Middle East, he began to explore the niche market of specialised internal pipe inspection and testing, using remotely controlled robotic vehicles.
The company is still headed up by Paul, who is supported by a multi-disciplined, forward thinking team with a talent for making seemingly impossible projects happen; the pioneering spirit remains and the company continues to provide innovative solutions to Clients problems.
During AMP 1 the company set about designing, building and operating a unique Pipe Inspection Vehicle (PIV), capable of traversing distances in excess of 1km in live potable water aqueducts to meet the requirements of their first Client. We successfully surveyed around 30km of bulk water transfer tunnels running from the Thirlmere, Haweswater & Vyrnwy reservoirs to Preston and Manchester. WSG were the first people to utilise unique profiling Sonar heads to measure pipe shape, deformation, damage, silt & debris levels in fully surcharged pipes and tunnels.
Since the early 80’s our underwater engineering company has been at the forefront of
, underwater inspection and testing and were the first engineering company to develop and operate a Water Pipe Inspection Vehicle.
In September 2014 we designed and built the World’s first multi-camera PIV to survey a 21km x 2.5m diameter water transfer tunnel accessed via 50-90m deep access shafts. This was to provide a full circumferential view of the pipe and to accurately measure deformation on profiling sonar.
We are ISO 9001 accredited and have an unblemished safety record.
We have a wide range of experience ranging from outlet surveys to aqueduct repair services. There isn't a job that our underwater engineering company will shy away from so if no one else will do it then we are the people to call.
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The Water Services Group Limited
