October 2106

Gaist will be joining the newly formed Department for International Trade, Innovate UK and Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) who are taking a delegation of around 20 SMEs and larger organisations on a Connected Cities Trade Mission to New Delhi, Pune and Kochi. Taking place at the same time as the India-UK TECH Summit - an unprecedented three-day showcase and business expo designed to drive even greater levels of business between the UK and India; the trade mission will embrace India’s high ambitions for the sector

14 June 2016

As part of Tarmac's continued drive to provide innovative services to their customers, Gaist is supporting them to provide highways condition surveys and asset management services to Knowsley Councl as part of Tarmacs existing term maintenance contract.

01 July 2016

Gaist are pleased to announce that they have won a contract by tender to supply survey and asset management services to Bridgend Council

May 2016

Gaist and Cumbria County Council Invited to No 10 Downing Street in recognition of their work to get Cumbria up and running again following Storm Desmond. ​

Steve Birdsall (Managing Director, Gaist), Andy Brown (Strategic Asset Manager) and Stephen Hall (Senior Manager - Capital Programme) met with The Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin MP Secretary of State for Transport and the Prime Minister David Cameron at a special reception at No 10 Downing Street.

Gaist's Managing Director - Steve Birdsall said after the event, "It was a real honour that the Gaist team was recognised for their part in the recovery efforts in Cumbria, however, there were many people on the ground, particularly members of the Council who worked tirelessly to help the local communities recover from the severe flooding. It is these people that really deserve a big thanks".

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Gaist are now supporting Government departments with issues around flood resilience and the impact upon vulnerability of communities.

October 2015

Halton Borough Council commissioned Gaist Solutions Ltd to calculate the area of each of their UKPMS sections to improve the accuracy of their current estimations of carriageway widths.

Prior to this Halton Borough Council had undertaken a desktop exercise to calculate the average width of their network using Mastermap Topographic layer data and averaging 2-3 sample points on each section reference. This study compares the various methods of calculating carriageway widths, the relative accuracy and the effect on valuation. The study concludes that even using measured widths, individual sections are on average between 10% and 27% inaccurate and the total area up to 4% inaccurate having a significant impact on valuation.

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October 2015

Gaist and the University of York have received the highest possible Grade at the end of their three year Knowledge Transfer Partnership.   The outcome of their work together was graded as 'Outstanding'.  Only 5% of all KTPs that complete are assessed so highly 

After receiving the Knowledge Transfer Partnership Certificate of Excellence Gaist's Managing Director, Steve Birdsall said -

 “We are immensely proud to have the collaborative research work we have undertaken with the University of York assessed so highly.   I would like to thank  Dr Stephen Remde and Professor Peter Cowling who have been hugely committed to the project and produced outputs of the highest standards.  I am pleased to say we are involved with another KTP with the same team which is also producing exciting outputs.

Research and Development is key to our future and we will continue to invest as much into innovation as we can to allow us to compete in an increasingly technologically advanced world"

The research work was focussed on developing advanced deterioration modelling systems to develop long term financial and maintenance plans for infrastructure owners. The technology has already been used throughout the Highways Maintenance sector and has been used in developing business plans worth over £0.6 Billion.

August 2015

Gaist are currently undertaking a survey of every road and footway in Lancashire. Having won this challenging contract Gaist are close to completing the image collection phase, with includes recording video footage of the entire network with specially adapted vehicles.

All the imagery will be available to Lancashire County Council online via the very latest in video streaming technology.

20 March 2015

Gaist have recently delivered a full highways network survey and data analysis project for Halton Council on behalf of Lafarge-Tarmac.

Halton Council are now one of the growing number of Councils in the UK to have a highly detailed inventory of all  highways and footways and a model of how the assets will perform over the next 25 years.

Lafarge-Tarmac recognise that they have a part to play in supporting their clients in whole of life asset management and have partnered with Gaist to ensure their customers get the best data possible relating to their asset base to ensure they are able to make the most robust and cost effective decisions possible.  

This is another example of how Gaist is allowing it's customers to build sound asset management plans based on robust data and innovative deterioration modelling techniques.

Halton can now predict the long term outcomes of any maintenance/investment strategy and have access to technology that can recomment the optimal maintenance programs to deliver the most cost effective use of resources. 

13/03/2015

Gaist Solutions Limited, specialists in highways asset management has announced the release of Assetstream for Cycleways. Aimed at Councils who are serious about managing cycling assets such as cycle-ways, cycle lanes and off road cycle routes, their associated infrastructure and brokering that information with partners.

Gaist is no stranger to managing all things cycling. All the Councils, emergency services and event management companies involved in the Tour de France, used Gaist’s technology as a single information platform that was vital in pulling all the various strands of the event together.

The system was very widely used during the event for planning and preparation of routes, siteing of equipment and assessing potential hazards.  Such is the versatility of the system, it was used as the core incident management system at Race HQ and the Gold Command Centre by West Yorkshire Police, logging over 2000 incidents in 48 hours.   Alex Nancolas,  Command, Control & Communication Manager (C3 Manager) for the UK stages of the race had this to say about Gaist’s technology.

"Phenomenal  IT system production and implementation, Gaist glued the Tour de France operation together for stages 1 and 2.  Stable under load, it impressed numerous partners"

Gaist’s Managing Director, Steve Birdsall says, “You don’t have to be managing an international cycling event to use AssetStream. The same cost effective technology is now available to Councils that want an easy to use, web based system to manage their cycling route assets, condition information and share it with the stakeholders, including the public. The system is highly innovative and allows Councils to bring a wide range of information together into one system that is very easy to use.”

AssetStream is web based and can be deployed within minutes, with minimal ICT overhead. The same system can be used for any number of tasks including; Surface Water Asset Management, Public Rights of Way, Streetlighting and street furniture etc.

AssetStream is soon to take over from Gaist’s GRP-2 system as it’s flagship product when a full Highways Asset Management version is launched in spring 2015.

For more information Gaist call Gaist on 01535 631006.

November 2014

gaist's success has been highlighted recently in the performance of its client Blackpool Council in the annual national public satisfaction survey carried out by MORI on behalf of the National Highways and Transportation Network.

While the survey, which involved 116 local authorities, found that overall views about the condition of highways in the UK are still at near record low levels, Blackpool Council bucked the trend. It gained the largest improvement for overall satisfaction, tackling congestion and road safety while also gaining the best overall score for road safety. The authority was also rated in the top five for improvements in public transport, walking and cycling, and highway maintenance....  Read More

March, 2014

For a second year Gaist Solutions have been recognideb by the Chartered Institution of Highways Technicians 2014 award for Asset Management. 

The GRP2 System was highly commended by the judges for its innovation and contribution to whole of life asset management.

Gaist were winners of the award in 2013 in a joint entry with Blackpool Council and Lafarge-Tarmac. 

August 2014

Gaist are pleased to announce that they are to strengthen their partnership with York University with a further Knowledge Transfer Partnership in the area of applied computer vision technology due to start later this year.

March, 2014

For a second year Gaist Solutions have been shortlisted for the Chartered Institution of Highways Technicians 2014 award for Asset Management. The winner will be announced on 11 June 2014.

Gaist were winners of the award in 2013 in a joint entry with Blackpool Council and Lafarge-Tarmac. 

March 15, 2014

West Yorkshire Police are using the Gaist GRP technology as a basis for their planning of the first two stages of the Tour de France event which will be held in Yorkshire in July 2014

Gaist's GRP Technology already underpins the West Yorkshire Resilience Forum's data sharing and is currently going live in North Yorkshire.