Research, development and delivery

Breaking through barriers in construction, technology and compliance.

Nexus Versa is a research, development and delivery company working where construction meets technology. We research and develop new materials, build monitoring hardware and software, analyse structures, and write the standards and systems that make doing the job properly the easy option.

Where the right tool does not exist, we build it.

Pull-off test on the underside of a RAAC plank
Research in the fieldPull-off testing on real RAAC panels
  • ConstructionTwo decades of structural diagnostics, repair and monitoring
  • TechnologySensor hardware, software and apps built in-house
  • StandardsAuthors of the UK's only dedicated concrete scanning standard
  • DeliveryDirector-led, from the first call to the finished job

Start with a straight conversation.

No sales team, no hand-off. You speak to the people who will do the work, we tell you honestly what is possible, and you decide from there.

What we do

The skills under the bonnet.

Construction knows its problems. Technology knows how to solve them. Very few teams speak both languages. These are the capabilities we bring to every project and every product we build.

01

Materials research and development

CFRP strengthening developed from first principles: samples gathered and tested, pull-off trials on real panels, load tests and a system taken through to UK production.

02

Structural monitoring

Our own sensor hardware and closed, encrypted networks reporting deflection, strain, vibration, crack movement and environment in real time, with alerts when thresholds are crossed.

03

Analysis and diagnostics

Concrete scanning, GPR and non-destructive testing, and the harder part: interpreting the data, stating its limits and turning it into decisions an engineer can rely on.

04

Software and apps

A CRM and compliance platform built for construction and NDT, mobile apps for crews and managers, websites and the internal tools that turn raw site data into answers.

05

Standards and competence

We wrote the UK's only dedicated concrete scanning standard and the competence framework behind it, because the industry needed a benchmark and nobody else had set one.

06

Field delivery

Surveys, testing and remediation on live sites, from rail, highways and water assets to listed buildings, with drone and ROV access where people cannot safely go.

How we work

Where others work around a problem, we remove it.

Most barriers in construction are not technical. They are habits, gaps between trades, and tools that were never built for the people using them. Four rules keep us honest.

Build what is missing

Our monitoring hardware, analysis software, apps and compliance platform were all built in-house. When something does not exist, we make it rather than working around it.

Evidence before opinion

Samples tested, trials run on real panels, systems proven on live sites. If it cannot be measured or verified, it does not go into the method, the product or the report.

Honest about limits

We say what a method, a survey or a piece of software can and cannot do before you rely on it. Limits that are not declared are limits that get ignored.

Director-led, every time

The people who scope the work are the people who deliver it. Nothing is passed down the line once the contract is signed.

Neil Smuts, Technical Director and Co-Owner of Nexus Versa
Leadership

A team led by someone who has done the work.

The team is led by Neil Smuts MCIOB MInstNDT FRCSP, Technical Director and Co-Owner. Neil spent seventeen years advising structural engineers, architects and specialist repair contractors across the UK, South Africa and Malta, then took technical direction of a UK structural repairs firm working on infrastructure and listed buildings.

He sets the technical direction across everything we do, from site diagnostics to the software and apps we build, and brings the same rule to all of it: understand the real problem on site before building the answer.

  • MCIOB, Chartered Institute of Building
  • MInstNDT, British Institute of NDT
  • FRCSP, Register of Concrete Scanning Professionals
  • President, UK Concrete Scanning Standard

Where the experience comes from

  • Rail and highways HS2, Network Rail and Highways England environments
  • Water utilities Thames Water, Severn Trent and United Utilities assets
  • RAAC strengthening a CFRP system built for RAAC, now in UK production
  • Live monitoring IoT sensor networks reporting deflection, strain and crack behaviour in real time
  • Heritage and high-risk buildings remediation and conservation of listed structures
  • Commercial estates IHG Hotels and JDE Group
Contact

Talk to the team.

Whether it is a structure you are not sure about, a compliance process your team is fighting, or an app or platform that does not exist yet, the first step is a conversation.

Nexus Versa survey work from a boat beside a concrete road bridge