Nick Blenkarn

BSc (Hons), MSc, MRICS, MInstCES, MPWI, MIoD, Director of the Severn Partnership, UK

Title of presentation :Preserving city identity:  Novel modelling for documented preservation and visualisation of Urban Heritage

Nick is a Director of the Severn Partnership; a UK based firm of Chartered Land surveyors.  A graduate in Geography & Geology, converting to Geomatics by studying a Masters degree at University College London.  Nick has 20 years experience in surveying and has been involved with 3D laser scanning from 2004. 

Being an early adopter of LIDAR & laser scanning, he has managed a variety of projects from Kings Cross train station, London to kinematic scanning of the Severn Tunnel.  He is also involved with Wolverhampton University on research into 3D modelling inputs into BIM systems and efficient extraction from LIDAR data.

Nick is a member or the Permanent Way Institute (Railway track engineering) and sits on the Education, Professional Development & Membership committee of the Chartered Institute of Civil Engineering Surveyors. With interests in business systems development, Nick has also given talks to the EU, BISS and the IOD on utilising open-source & cloud based software.  He also maintains links with University College London through work on long distance engineering survey grids (Snake grids - such as the 165 mile survey from Dublin to Cork).