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April 2010

• PDS’ partner Navtech Radar is awarded the Queens Award for Innovation 2010.

Well done guys, you deserve the success!

PDS is currently integrating a Navtech Radar based Incident Detection system into the prestigious new Hindhead tunnel on the A3 in Surrey.
March 2010

• Hindhead Road tunnel 'open in 18 months'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8585796.stm
March 2010

• Opening of the Bell Common Tunnel

The British Transport Secretary Chris Mole inaugurated the Bell Common tunnel located on the M25 highway in the beginning of March. The works to upgrade the tunnel started in October 2008 and included upgrading of ventilation and lighting equipment as well as replacement of fire safety systems. Upgrading in the Holmesdale tunnel, west of Bell Common was completed last year.

PDS is pleased to have been involved with both projects. Especially Bell Common where PDS world leading SCANLIGHT dimmable lighting system was chosen ahead of a competing system.
February 2010

• "“The Blackwall Tunnel is to get a 21st century upgrade” Transport for London announced last week. The three year £49m refurbishment programme of the northbound tunnel will be undertaken by BAM Nuttall and begins on 7th February” as reported by Tunnels and Tunneling International - February 2010.

PDS is pleased to be providing the tunnel systems for this project.
October 2009

• The Lower Lea Valley project is awarded the Association of Project Management “Project of the Year 2009” award for the Power Lines Undergrounding Project

PDS is pleased to have been involved.
August 2009

• All PDS project managers and board members responsible for project delivery have now passed a PRINCE2 foundation course, to benchmark current practices against what is regarded as the industry best practice in project management. PDS will now be reviewing how the PDS processes for successful project delivery can be enhanced.
May 2009

Traffex 2009 is a success.

• Taking a larger and more central stand, to reflect PDS continued success, the concept for a SCADA based operational facility was very well received, with many clients showing interest. PDS were pleased to meet both old friends and new contacts at the show.
May 2009

• THE real thing may be years away from completion but motorists can already get their first virtual experience of driving through the Hindhead Tunnel.

A computer simulation of the £371m tunnel, which will slash journey times on the A3 between Portsmouth and London, has been produced by the Highways Agency to give people a taste of what it will feel like to travel along the road without the usual daily diet of tailbacks and traffic jams.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Tunnel-vision-comes-to-video.2921229.jp

PDS is delighted to be providing all the tunnel systems for the project which is due to complete in 2011.
April 2009

• PDS have successfully passed the BS EN ISO 9001 Quality Management System reaccreditation audit to the new 2008 standard, with no non-conformances raised. We are one of the first companies in the UK to achieve accreditation to this new standard.

• PDS will be at Traffex - Stand G50.
January 2009

• Following continued success and ongoing staff recruitment program, PDS breaks the 40 employee's threshold.
December 2008

• After an extensive highly detailed review and comparison PDS market leading SCANLIGHT dimmable addressable lighting control solution is selected for the HA Bell Common Project.

• Following further contract renewals and success in system support, PDS has won the contract to support the Limehouse Link tunnel in London. PDS now supports 22 tunnels in the UK road tunnel industry.
November 2008

• PDS selected to provide the Plant Monitoring and Control Systems into the HA's M25 Bell Common road tunnel refurbishment project.
September 2008

• PDS expands the fleet of vehicles for system support.
June 2008

• PDS celebrates 20 years in existence!

• PDS selected to provide the turnkey integrated systems into the A3 Hindhead Tunnel, including PDS own market leading SCANLIGHT dimmable addressable lighting control system.

September 2007

“£75m M25 scheme opens three months early.

3rd September 2007: Transport Minister opens M25 development.

Drivers on the M25 are set to benefit from shorter journey times and improved safety as Transport Minister Tom Harris today opened a £75million project to refurbish and add extra lanes through the Holmesdale Tunnel and junction 25.
The project which has been completed by the Highways Agency three months ahead of schedule, increases the numbers of lanes through the Holmesdale Tunnel. Up to 450 staff were involved working 1.7 million man hours with no reported construction accidents.
An extra lane has also been added to the eastbound M25 through junction 25 while key tunnel systems, including lighting, ventilation, CCTV monitoring and incident detection systems, have been upgraded.”

PDS are pleased to have been involved with the upgrade to the Tunnel Plant Monitoring Control Systems on this successful project.
February 2007

PDS are to exhibit at Traffex 2007, being held at the NEC between 17th and 19th April 2007. PDS will be demonstrating the MATRICs IP integrated systems demonstration and test facility on stand Z54 during the show.

October 2006

PDS’s SCANLIGHT Lighting Control System demonstration facility is now fully complete and demonstrations are being arranged. SCANLIGHT is a dimmable addressable lighting control system developed by PDS specifically for Road Tunnel applications to economically deliver optimum lighting conditions best matching the Luminance Reduction curve. SCANLIGHT offers performance far exceeding conventional or switched stage systems, with capital and running costs substantially lower than conventional switched systems. Please contact us for details or to arrange a demonstration.
September 2006

PDS have been awarded a contract by J. Murphy & Sons Ltd for the SCADA system for the two Lower Lea Valley Cable Tunnels. In a project for the London Development Agency, the tunnels are being constructed for use by National Grid and EDFe, and due for commissioning in 2008.
August 2006

Our move into Olympus House has gone well, and those that have visited us will have seen the new demonstration facilities for MATRICs IP (Integrated IP Systems) and SCANLIGHT (dimmable addressable lighting system) ready for inspection. Following a number of recent project awards and some announcements pending we are again recruiting for engineers - see the recruitment page. Further news follows.