Heritage Survey Day - Event Case Study

Our Client - Historic England Historic England are the public body that helps care for England’s historic places. They record and help maintain listed buildings, monuments, parks, gardens, archaeological sites and conservation areas. It's essential that they have the best instruments for the task so surveys are as accurate and efficient as possible. The Aim Historic England wanted a day for their decision-makers and end-users. They wanted to bring these people up to date with the latest survey equipment and techniques. They also wanted to enable networking with other heritage professionals. Our ties within the Heritage and Archaeology sector, as well as our extensive product knowledge across all the relevant instruments made us the perfect candidates to set up a demonstration day with. Heritage Survey Day The Solution We planned The Heritage Open Day. The event was in conjunction with the National Trust. It took place at Fountains Abbey, a large monastic ruin and world heritage site in North Yorkshire. The venue came complete with lecture theatre and cafe facilities for guests. The event only included equipment relevant to the Heritage and Archaeology sector. The morning featured lectures given by experts from Historic England and the National Trust. Specialists from Opti-cal also gave presentations, as did supplier GeoSLAM. Lectures gave context and clarity to end users, and explained how to achieve surveys with quality data outputs. We provided refreshments throughout lectures and a lunch was also arranged. After lunch demonstrations began with the flight of a WingtraOne, a vertical take-off and landing UAV. The day concluded in an outdoor demonstration area right next to the ruins. Many products were on display and experts from Opti-cal were available to speak to.