University spin-out company receives prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise
- Andrea Stephenson
- 6 days ago
- 1 min read
University spin-out company Geoptic has been honoured with a King’s Award for Enterprise for its pioneering approach to assessing the condition and safety of railway tunnels.
The King’s Awards are the highest official UK awards for British businesses.
The award for Geoptic, in the Innovation category, recognises the unique use and application of a harmless form of natural radiation to assess problems in railway infrastructures.
This so-called cosmic ray muon technology can scan structures through thousands of metres of soil and underlying rock. It can then map variations in density caused by voids, shafts and collapsed structures that cannot be seen from within the tunnels.
