About Us
We are bringing highways materials testing into the 21st Century.
Our technology helps asphalt contractors build roads without the need for manual record keeping or in-situ testing. Automation helps to improve worker safety and deliver better quality road construction whilst reducing costs and providing high-value information for use in asset management and deterioration modelling.
We believe that automation technology has the potential to unlock a wave of productivity that will help to build the high-quality infrastructure of the future in a safer and more sustainable way. HDS is a proud participant in national and international research projects to develop highways construction technology and our approach is now being used in the UK, Ireland and the USA.
Everyone working for HDS has lived and worked with problems in the road construction industry and, over time, we became increasingly frustrated with the lack of productivity, vision and innovation that is holding the industry back. We’re here to change that.
Our Management Team
Joe Charlesworth
Managing Director
Chris Freeman
Head of Research & Development
Ruairi Charlesworth
Head of Business Development
Liang Shen
Lead Software Developer
Shaun Wilson
Technical Manager
Gregor Wilson
Operations Manager
Claire Harvey
Head of Finance
What is 21st Century Materials Testing?
Automation & Digitalisation
Our Industries
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Highways
Automated quality assurance for asphalt materials testing. Highway Data Systems have the technology you need to optimise every part of your highways construction process.
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Earthworks
Continuous compaction control improves compaction quality and site safety whilst saving contractors money and delivering high-quality digital data for use in asset management.
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Surveying
The HDS laser surveying team delivery traffic speed surveys for texture, profile, grip, IRI, SMTD, MPD and more. Helping avoid traffic management costs whilst ensuring site safety and high accuracy reporting.
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Surface Dressing
HDS is always looking for the next area of infrastructure to improve. Watch this space...