It's the opportunity for us to work with some of our global partners on projects around the world, including the UK. So it's a great place to come and see the trends, see what pressures are on the industry and make sure we're a part of that conversation and the solutions.

Mitch McPherson, global sales manager, 12d Solutions

The opportunity to network with the industry and understand some of the projects that are coming up and how we can add value to those projects is a real highlight. Being able to support the tunneling industry in an event like this is very much what, where we're coming from.

Daniel Breukelaar, business development manager, Bachy Soletanche; Sophie Burns, bid project director, BESSAC

We find it's a beneficial event to showcase our products and services. I think as a supplier, early engagement with, tier ones and clients is always something that we look to focus on. So, having the opportunity to be able to demonstrate our services is a great opportunity.

Matthew McCarthy, UK sales manager - head of infrastructure, Peri

It's been very good! There's been a lots of interest in the new product, because one of the issues that we're seeing here in the, the UK market is that for a contractor, for instance, to do their survey work or manage their designs, they're using multiple, software packages to do all the different types of features that they want to do, and we are offering a one-solution package for everybody.

Graham Wirth, survey product manager, 12d Solutions

This is a market that we're, we're looking to progressively enter and hopefully gain some traction and speak to the right people, so NCE Tunnelling was the, the go-to event for us this year to meet and network with, like-minded professionals.

Dexter Dolman, technical sales manager UK, geotechnical, DYWIDAG

For us it was very important to come to the UK to start spreading the word that we are doing tunneling as well as, we are the second-biggest manufacturer of single-ply in Europe. So it's about niching up, different fields that we work on and export our expertise.

Vanessa Dos Santos, tunneling & mining manager, Protan

It's really good to have the whole industry together, both from the design consultants, engineers, those leading the concept work, right the way through to delivery partners and the main contractors.

Lisa Artemis MCIM, marketing director, Conquip

For us, it's a chance to network with the professionals working in the industry and also to showcase a lot of our technology which is used heavily across the industry, throughout the country. There's lots of people from overseas here as well, so yeah, good place to, to catch up.

Rob Williams, tunnelling solutions,  SSCS

Essentially speaking, it's our first event. We've had a great success in terms of the people, who've come to see us this year.

Richard Stroud, business manager, CENdri