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Datum Monitoring Services Limited, United Kingdom, was also awarded an Innovation Award for their work on the Partick Station Redevelopment Project in Glasgow, UK. Datum was tasked to supply a real time vibration monitoring system during the construction of a new ticket office at the Partick Rail Station. Located in close proximity to residential properties, rail and subway structures, the piling work was in progress 24 hours a day.

Bob Turnbull, Product and Service Manager for Instantel noted, "What made this project even more difficult was that the effects of the trains passing through the tunnel and overhead of the railway structure had to be discounted when measuring event data to the prescribed limit. This was accomplished by means of an auxiliary trigger using infra-red beams to display a separate visible light to halt piling. High voltage cables, sensors up to 100 m from the monitors and extensions added to the modems made for a very technically challenging set up – something that Datum was able to accomplish to a successful conclusion, and the end result was reliable monitoring for their client."