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A contract was awarded to Tessella in August 2008, covering the design and specification of a major data management system to support the Geosphere characterization programme.

Mark Claxton, associate director at Tessella said, “We are delighted to not only have won this significant contract in an open tender but that Tessella are still providing valuable contributions. It further demonstrates our commitment to provide innovative IT solutions to the UK nuclear industry.”

The RWMD is the body charged by Government with implementing geological disposal of the UK’s higher activity radioactive wastes. The system being researched and designed by Tessella will provide the underlying software infrastructure and data standards supporting the RWMD in its work over the decades to come.

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About Tessella
For decades, Tessella has been successfully delivering IT and consulting services to world leaders in R&D, science and engineering. We enable our clients in life sciences, energy, the public sector, and consumer industries to achieve a wide range of objectives, including, forecasting floods, developing fusion power, enhancing military sensor capability, improving drug discovery and development efficiency, and reducing risk to health and the environment in the extraction and production of oil and gas. With offices in Europe and North America, global companies rely on Tessella for business critical assignments.

Meet Tessella
Tessella are sponsoring the Decommissioning, Immobilisation and Management of Nuclear Wastes for Disposal, (DIAMOND 09) taking place on the 9 -10 September 2009, at the National Railway Museum, York.

Dave Dungate of Tessella, will be presenting ‘The Application of Acoustic Signature Technology for HLW processing at Sellafield’ at the event.

Tessella will also be exhibiting at the Twelfth International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management (ICEM’09) held on October 11-15th 2009. ICEM’09 is a global information exchange, featuring engineering and scientific solutions to environmental problems.

Press contact at Tessella
Christina Tealdi | Marketing Communications & PR Executive
Phone: +44 (0) 1235 555511 | Mobile: + 44 (0) 779 9346453
christina.tealdi@tessella.com

Tessella presented and exhibited at the ‘Doing Business with the World’s Scientific Research Facilities’ which was held at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London on September 16 2008.

Tessella’s work in scientific software – and particularly the fusion technology arena – spans more than 20 years. Tessella’s scientific software specialists have worked on many of the key systems at the Joint European Torus (JET) experiment at UKAEA Culham in the UK, the world’s leading centre for research into fusion power. It is here that teams of scientists from all over Europe have been given the important remit of conducting fusion experiments with a view to generating a plentiful and environmentally safe energy source for the future. Tessella’s presentation explored how professional software engineers and project managers with the right academic backgrounds can contribute to the success of large research projects.

The one day event brought together academia, industry and European and UK-based Large Facility representatives for a combined conference and exhibition.

Groundbreaking technology, TAPAS, has transformed traditional train maintenance by introducing a remote condition-based maintenance system, which can be applied to existing mid-life fleets as well as new rolling stock.

Nick Clarke, technical manager at Tessella said: “I am extremely delighted that TAPAS has won this award.  TAPAS has increased the reliability of the Class 455 fleet from 6,000 to 16-17,000 miles per failure, which is excellent news for passengers, at the same time as reducing routine maintenance time.”

Nick Clarke continued: “The changes in the structure of the transport industry have driven companies to modernize and seek new solutions to key challenges such as asset management, condition monitoring, maintenance planning and revenue management. One of Tessella’s defining qualities is to add value to our clients business by taking capabilities and technologies developed in one industry sector and using them to deliver innovative solutions in a completely different sector. Uniting innovation with previous experience, Tessella is perfectly placed to help organizations exploit new technology and so take their performance, and the services they provide, to another level.”

In 2007, Southern, HSBC Rail and Tessella won the Railway Industry Innovation Award in the category of Engineering and Information Technology showing the continued success of TAPAS.

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Notes to editors:

For press enquiries or to arrange an interview with Tessella please contact Christina Tealdi, Marketing Communications & PR Executive, on +44 (0) 1235 555511 or christina.tealdi@tessella.com
For press enquiries or to arrange an interview with Southern please contact Chris Hudson on 020 8929 8673 or chris.hudson@southernrailway.com
For press enquiries with HSBC Rail please contact Wendy Filer on 020 7380 5057 or wendyfiler@hsbc.com

• Founded in 1980, Tessella specializes in the application of innovative solutions to scientific, technical and engineering problems, and its offices within the UK, US and the Netherlands have built long-term relationships with organizations at the leading edge of the scientific and engineering world. Tessella is vendor independent and recommends ‘best of breed’ solutions, whether this involves custom software development or off-the-shelf solutions
• HSBC Rail (UK) Ltd owns approximately one third of the UK’s rolling stock and provides a comprehensive range of rolling stock and management services for rail passenger and freight markets. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank plc, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc.  HSBC Holdings plc serves over 128 million clients worldwide through around 10,000 offices in 83 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With assets of some US$2,354 billion at 31 December 2007, HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations. HSBC is marketed worldwide as ‘the world’s local bank’.
• Southern provides rail services in south London and between central London and the South Coast, through East and West Sussex and Surrey, and parts of Kent and Hampshire. Last year Southern carried 120 million passengers. Their 3,500 staff manage162 stations and operate and maintain a fleet of 300 new and refurbished trains.

Contact details

Tessella Support Services plc (Headquarters)
3 Vineyard Chambers
Abingdon
Oxfordshire, OX14 3PX
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1235 555511, Fax: +44 (0) 1235 553301

Tessella also has UK offices in Burton upon Trent, Cambridge, Stevenage, Warrington and Winchester

Tessella Support Services plc
Tauro Kantorencentrum
President Kennedylaan 19
2517JK Den Haag
The Netherlands
Tel/Fax: +31 (0) 70 354 2296

Tessella Inc
233 Needham Street, Suite 300
Newton, MA 02464
USA
Tel: (1) 617 454 1220, Fax: (1) 617 454 1001
Tessella Inc also has an office in Washington DC

info@tessella.com

The core software has already been in use at TNA for four years, as the basis of their award-winning ‘Digital Archive’ system, and is currently being significantly enhanced as part of TNA’s Seamless Flow programme. Other users of SDB include the British Library, the National Archives of the Netherlands, and the National Archives of Malaysia.

Dr Robert Sharpe, Tessella’s Head of Digital Archiving Solutions, explained: “We are delighted that the Bundesarchiv has joined the growing SDB community using our advanced archiving solution. We are especially excited about using the Active Preservation technology to add true policy-driven long- term preservation capabilities”.

Jean-Marc Comment, responsible for delivering the project for the Bundesarchiv, said “Tessella’s reputation as technology leaders in Digital Archiving, and the growing acceptance that SDB is the solution of choice to the archiving community, convinced us to select them for this demanding project”.

Kevin Gell, Managing Director of Tessella, concluded: “The challenges of Digital Preservation are considerable and best faced by leading institutions working together. This contract will allow us to continue to build our technology so that the whole SDB user community can benefit. In combination with our work for the US National Archives and Records Administration (through Lockheed Martin), and the PLANETS European Commission funded research programme, we will be able to continue to offer innovative solutions to these complex problems. We are delighted to be supporting the Swiss Federal Archive”.

On Thursday July 24th 2008, Dr Robert Sharpe will be speaking at the 16th International Congress on Archives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on ‘The Problems of Digital Preservation of Archives’.

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Notes to editors:

• For press enquiries or to arrange an interview with Tessella Support Services plc please contact Christina Tealdi, Marketing Communications and PR Executive on +44 (0) 1235 555511 or christina.tealdi@tessella.com
• Founded in 1980, Tessella specializes in the application of innovative solutions to scientific, technical and engineering problems, and its offices within the UK, US and the Netherlands have built long-term relationships with organizations at the leading edge of the scientific and engineering world. Tessella is vendor independent and recommends ‘best of breed’ solutions, whether this involves custom software development or off-the-shelf solutions
• Tessella has over 20 years of proven expertise in the area of reliable and authentic long-term preservation of electronic records, both for government and scientific organizations. In recent years a number of mainly academic and government organizations have been at the cutting-edge of facing up to the digital preservation challenge, and Tessella has played a key role in a number of the most practical of these initiatives. For more information please visit: http://www.digital-preservation.com/resources/digital-archiving-challenges-webinar/

Kevin Gell, Managing Director of Tessella, explained: “To be selected for the framework, we had to demonstrate that Tessella has the appropriate bespoke application development skill set, a proven track record, and that we provide excellent value for money. We are delighted to be supporting the British Library.”

The British Library is one of the world’s greatest research libraries. It provides world-class information services to the academic, business, research and scientific communities and offers unparalleled access to the world’s largest and most comprehensive research collection. It also operates the world’s largest document delivery services providing millions of items a year to clients all over the world.

Dr Robert Sharpe, Tessella’s Head of Digital Archiving Solutions, continued: “Tessella is also supplying the British Library with our Safety Deposit Box technology as key components of their digital archiving solutions. The technology has been designed to help memory institutions (including libraries and archives), who are already skilled at preserving paper material, to face the problems posed by preserving material stored in digital formats.”

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Notes to editors:

• For press enquiries or to arrange an interview with Tessella Support Services plc please contact Alison Smith, Marketing Manager on +44 (0) 1235 546609 or alison.smith@tessella.com

• Founded in 1980, Tessella specializes in the application of innovative solutions to scientific, technical and engineering problems, and its offices within the UK, US and the Netherlands have built long-term relationships with organizations at the leading edge of the scientific and engineering world. Tessella is vendor independent and recommends ‘best of breed’ solutions, whether this involves custom software development or off-the-shelf solutions

• The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It provides world class information services to the academic, business, research and scientific communities and offers unparalleled access to the world’s largest and most comprehensive research collection. The British Library’s collections include 150 million items from every era of written human history beginning with Chinese oracle bones dating from 300 BC, right up to the latest e-journals. For further information visit www.bl.uk

Tessella Contact details:

Tessella Support Services plc (Headquarters)
3 Vineyard Chambers
Abingdon
Oxfordshire, OX14 3PX
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1235 555511, Fax: +44 (0) 1235 553301
Tessella also has UK offices in Burton upon Trent, Cambridge, Stevenage, Warrington and Winchester

Tessella Support Services plc
Tauro Kantorencentrum
President Kennedylaan 19
2517JK Den Haag
The Netherlands
Tel/Fax: +31 (0) 70 354 2296

Tessella Inc
233 Needham Street, Suite 300
Newton, MA 02464
USA
Tel: (1) 617 454 1220, Fax: (1) 617 454 1001
Tessella Inc also has an office in Washington DC

info@tessella.com