The experienced professional staff, continuous business development and the flexible approach offered to clients enables us to deliver our products and services as promised. Conveniently based in the Midlands, GTech Surveys Limited can work on projects anywhere in the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe. From Irish, Welsh and Scottish wind farms to Manchester, Croydon, Birmingham and London-based redevelopment and construction projects, we can cover all aspects of radio, television and telecommunications pre application impact assessment work and after, to discharge planning conditions.
GTech Surveys Limited was formed in 2006. Its founder, Gareth Phillips BEng (Hons) MIET, graduated from Liverpool University and joined a graduate training scheme at Arqiva (formally BBC Transmission / Crown Castle / National Grid Wireless). For 6 years, he was a member of the Radio Spectrum Planning Division at Arqiva (involved with VHF, DAB, TV coverage and wireless link planning), and was involved in many broadcast and television reception survey projects. He has had extensive broadcast training with the IET, BBC, Crown Castle International, Crown Castle UK Ltd, National Grid Wireless, Cable & Wireless and Arqiva.
GTech Surveys Limited is a consultant member of the Trade Association for Content Delivery – (Confederation of Aerial Industries Ltd – CAI) and the and Getmedigital – the digital sector’s professional body and trade organisation. We are listed as a Gold member on Constructionline and are verified as an Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP) member by Safety Management Advisory Services (SMAS), making us compliant with the construction industry preferred requirments, the Common Assessment Standard (CAS). Professional broadcast trained project engineers deliver and supply Markel (UK) Limited insured technical products to support planning applications, discharge planning conditions (including S106 Agreements) and for due diligence to provide risk assessments and interference mitigation solutions for proposed developments. All technical staff are members of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
We are able to undertake highly specialised technical and signal reception work. During 2007, we were involved in the Whitehaven DTT trials to ensure local DTT coverage was as intended, prior to the nationwide digital TV switchover. During 2009, we undertook nationwide television signal reception survey work for The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), now known as The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. We conducted nationwide house visits to assess antenna system performance to aid the forthcoming switch to digital only terrestrial broadcasting. Between 2013 and 2015, we undertook nationwide TV and 4G signal survey reception work with BBC R&D for Restore TV and Ofcom, to better understand the impacts of the UK’s recently introduced 4G (LTE) mobile phone networks on TV reception.
