CBC has a team of consultants with extensive experience in specifying, procuring, training, supervising, and making use of visual surveys in both the public and private sector.

We have been closely involved in the development and implementation of UKPMS (the United Kingdom Pavement Management System) from its inception and are currently the DfT’s UKPMS support contractor, in addition to being responsible for administering the UKPMS Owners Forum, and for developing and operating the UKPMS web site (www.ukpms.com).

We pride ourselves on our independence. We do not carry out visual surveys commercially and we do not supply UKPMS software. In this way we are able to offer a fair and independent perspective.

Visual Condition Surveys of road pavement are known to be inherently subjective and considerable effort is needed in Training, QA and Audit to eliminate systematic errors. Visual Surveys are typically affected by:

• Deterioration being recorded to the incorrect defect
• Defects being missed
• Incorrect defect lengths or areas
• Defects being recorded in an incorrect cross-sectional position
• Surveys being carried out in the wrong location

Good practice dictates that inspectors receive high quality training and that effective survey quality procedures are in place in order to ensure the credibility of visual survey results. CBC offers a range of complementary services that can be tailored to your needs, to help you ensure that your visual surveys are of the highest quality and consistency and to enable you to maximise the benefit from your data collection investment. These services include:

• Survey Audits and Quality Assessment
• Assistance in producing survey and documents
• Training for surveyors, survey trainers and auditors, and for managers and engineers who make use of visual survey data
• Preparatory training for UKPMS Inspector Accreditation candidates
• Assistance with Survey Specification and Procurement
• An audit software program, to check the format of survey data and produce audit reports for use in on-site audits and to record and report on audit survey results (Windows 2000 compliant)
• BVPI QA and Audits
• Assistance in survey processing and interpretation
• Advice on the development of custom local UKPMS Rule Sets
• Assistance in producing local manuals
• Data Management Services
• General UKPMS and PMS advice