TerraDat was established by Nick Russill and Rob McDonald in the UK in 1992 and is based since then in Cardiff, the Capital City of Wales. In the beginning our dominant expertise was in seismic refraction, shallow seismic reflection and geo-electrical techniques applied to ground engineering problems. During the second and third years the Company's scope had widened to cover landfill and environmental assessments using the latest technologies. Work had developed from a UK base to a worldwide prospect employing all modern geophysical methods.

Since the beginning, growing success of TerraDat has been highlighted not only by an impressive client base, but also several business awards including Most Successful Welsh New Business in 1993, an Innovation Award in 1996 and Young Entrepreneur of the Year, 1998. The Directors were recently made Honorary Lecturers at the University of Wales and Nick Russill recently addressed the Institute of MBAs talking about "innovative ways of achieving entrepreneurial growth in a small business."

During the past two years TerraDat UK has invested considerable amounts in developing its own internal resources especially in the areas of micro-gravity, seismic, ground radar and electrical tomography and is now widely regarded as the best-equipped company of its kind in Europe.