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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the SCRIM^® road survey vehicle, we shared a SCRIM® fact each week during 2017. Fact #1: W.D.M. Limited celebrate the 50th anniversary of SCRIM in 2017 – it was the machine that resulted in the company first becoming involved in the highway asset management sector.  Fact #2: ...

A W.D.M. Limited staff member visited the National Motorcycle Museum recently and found an example of how road surface friction was measured and recorded in the UK in the early days of motoring.  Today, WDM^® is the only licensed manufacturer of...

The latest version of W.D.M. Limited’s UK Pavement Management software (ukPMS) has successfully completed its annual health check. The system is regularly independently tested to cover the loading, processing and reporting of data and also when an existing version is modified. Version 4.10 of the PMS and ukPMS is scheduled for release by the end of...

W.D.M. Limited team presented their road survey equipment and consulting services on Stand F06 at Highways UK 2016 event which took place at the NEC in Birmingham on 16 and 17 November 2016. The Highways UK event brings together those responsible for the planning, operation and future-proofing of the UK's road network. Whilst at the show, WDM^...

W.D.M. Limited has completed the manufacture of a new SCRIM^® road survey vehicle for one of Italy’s largest road services companies. The new SCRIM® is the second road survey vehicle that WDM^® has built for Sineco Spa and was loaded on to a low-loader at WDM^...

The SCRIM^® machine built for the FHWA in America by W.D.M. Limited, which is being evaluated by researchers at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI), has successfully competed in a comparison trial with locked wheel friction testers in Texas. The Federal Highways Administration took delivery of the SCRIM® road survey vehicle more than 18...

W.D.M. Limited combines more than four decades of experience in road condition assessment with cutting edge technology to enable road engineers to manage their highway and road assets in the most efficient and cost effective way. More than 70 highway engineers from across Scotland and the North of England will be in Perth on 26 October to find out...

More than 50 highway engineers from Wales and the South of England attended the W.D.M. Limited Asset Management User Group meeting in Bristol on 13 October 2016. They all use elements of WDM^®’s integrated asset management software to plan and schedule highway authority work, which includes routine maintenance and pavement management. The engineers are invited...