Insite Summer 2008 Machine Control Newsletter

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The Construction newsletter from KOREC SUMMER 2008

Over 250 visitors to KOREC’s first ever Trimble Construction LIVE event

This years TCL was all about ‘hands on’ opportunity for heavy and highways contractors to learn about Trimble Construction Technology

Many thanks to all of you who attended our first ever UK Trimble Construction LIVE Event and for making the two days such a success.

For those that couldn’t make it, Trimble Construction Live (TCL) 2008 was a shared KOREC/ Trimble venture held at the Concept Centre, Milbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire in June. It has evolved from an event held by Trimble in Marseille last year where KOREC took around 75 customers from the UK and Ireland.

Due to the level of interest in this event in 2007 and a marked increase in enquiries and take up in both 2D and 3D grade control systems in the months following this, we decided that a joint KOREC/Trimble enterprise would be well received in the UK.

New from KOREC...

“I can’t believe it’s taken 25 years to come up with this!“

This years TCL was all about ‘hands on’ opportunity for heavy and highways contractors to learn about Trimble Construction Technology and how it can work together as part of Trimble’s ‘Connected Site’ philosophy (covered in this issue of Insite).

‘Increased productivity’ is what KOREC customers demand from all the instruments we supply. With the ultra rugged Apache Storm Receiver you can add value and productivity to the laser systems you already own.

TCL also provided the perfect opportunity to get the answer straight from the horses mouth!

Fourteen members of the Trimble team attended from the US and Europe answering questions on development and production through to Trimble’s vision of the future of construction.

Featuring a digital read out – not only will you be able to tell if you are high, low or ongrade – it will tell you exactly how much by!

Not to be outdone, KOREC supplied a full construction and machine control sales team, technical support and trainers.

The event was supported by several of our customers who kindly supplied plant and operators for the two days and demonstrated them throughout. Many thanks to Sinbad Plant, Groundwork Services Ltd and Lancaster Earthmoving. Finning (UK) and Liebherr also kindly supplied machines for an outside exhibition area.

For a full round up and photographs please see centre pages Continued...

New Launch:

The Trimble CCS900 Compaction Control System.

Compact to target density and Check in the same process!

Please call 0845 603 1214 for full details

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Insite Apache Storm Receiver continued...

Ideal for site preparation, you can gauge how hard to hit the stake and how much material to bring in or take out saving considerable time.

Instrument Focus Spectra Precision Dual Grade GL422 Laser and LR60 Display receiver Mini Machines, Maximum Productivity and Massive Value

You can also choose from 5 accuracy levels and select your preferred unit of measurement.

Here are just a few ways the Storm Receiver can increase your productivity: ● NEW SuperCell reception technology increases reliability and durability ● Digital readout of elevation – No need to go “on-grade” to measure ● Full length reception – time saving by easier and faster beam detection ● Large 21-channel linear LCD on front and back allows for fast readings eliminating the need to get “on-grade” to make measurements ● NEW Offset on-grade for excavation – time saver for cut and driving stakes to final grade applications ● NEW Capture function - obtain grade readings remotely when the display can not be seen, ideal for use on a high rod ● Super Bright LED’s provides easy reference in any light conditions – no walking and definitely no squinting! ● IP67 for the best water & dust resistance less down time for repairs / malfunctions ● Anti-strobe sensor - stops unwanted “strikes” caused by construction machinery The Storm Receiver comes with a 3 year “No Excuses” warranty for customer satisfaction. For further information please call your nearest KOREC Construction Sales Consultant.

“I can’t believe it’s taken 25 years to come up with this!

The Storm Receiver is perfect for anyone doing survey work with a staff and receiver. Our survey productivity is four times faster than previously and over time we will upgrade all our receivers to the Storm. We just set it up and it tells us exactly how high or low we are, no need to move anything.

We’ve been using it almost daily and it’s proved to be completely and utterly idiot proof. The anti-strobe feature has also been particularly useful eliminating interruptions from signals off other machines.”

Alan Dobbins, Operations Manager, Twintec (specialists in concrete flooring contractor in the field of steel fibre reinforced concrete)

Four ways a Spectra Precision laser-based control system can improve your productivity!

No need for a grade checker Never stop to measure Know exactly when you’re at grade Get to grade much faster By using laser-based grade display systems to guide the cutting edge to grade, you can speed up grading operations, increase accuracy and maximise profits. In effect, the operator becomes an instant grade checker, spending less time walking the job site and more time in the cab being productive. One of our most popular laser-based control systems is the Spectra Precision LR60 Display Receiver with a GL422 dual grade laser.

Easily transferable to a wide range of machines, the LR60 is rugged, portable and highly flexible. Designed to be used as a stand-alone display receiver for backhoes, excavators, dozers and trenchers, key features include: ● Excavator boom plumb indicator and an angle compensation indicator which automatically calculates and corrects the grade display for the angle of the dipper arm. ● Ability to check grade with the dipper arm extended or retracted up to 30 degrees ● Built-in plumb indicator for fast, accurate grade checking ● Four selectable accuracies for each on-grade location The GL422 is a cost-effective, automatic self-levelling laser that’s ideal for levelling, grading and vertical alignment with plumb. Featuring a 2-way, full function remote control, do everything with the remote control that you can do at the laser keypad. Features include: ● Grade reverse on both axes, up to 100m away from the laser – even from the cab! ● Self-plumb in the vertical position ● Automatic temperature and grade compensation for high accuracy in any weather or geographical location. ● Ability to turn laser beam off on three sides of your choice to eliminate interference with other teams on the site with stray beams. ● HR550 Receiver provides an operating diameter of up to 800m

For full details on any KOREC product or service please call your local Construction Representative on 0845 603 1214 or visit www.korecgroup.com

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Special Offer “We’ve been using the GL422 in conjunction with an LR60 receiver mounted on a 13 tonne 360° Hitachi excavator. Once set up, the LR60 has reduced our labour costs and increased accuracy. We recently arrived on site at 4.30pm on a Friday to do a road profiling job. We used the laser for straight grading and not a single peg was required. The clear LR60 display arrows directed us up, down, left, right. With no need to leave the cab or bang in pegs, we saved 3 hours on this job – particularly welcome at the end of a long week!

It’s a simple feature, but the ability to use the remote control from the cab has been invaluable. Our machine operator can avoid getting out in muddy conditions and save battery life by shutting down the laser when it’s not required. We can also use it to turn off the laser beam on three sides when we have brick layers on site to prevent interference with stray beams.”

Andy Goodman, Capstan Civil Engineering, Avonmouth, Bristol (Contracts Manager specialising in engineering and surveying)

Our current ‘Excavator Package’ special offer has been extended until the end of August to include all readers of Insite. For further information, please call 0845 603 1214.

Excavator Pack Includes: Dual grade laser Transmitter GL422 with hand receiver HR550 Display receiver LR60 with angle compensation MM-1 Magnetic Mount £3246 (+vat)

Spotlight On...

The Connected Site What does the future hold for construction?

The “Connected Site™” strategy is the answer that comes loud and clear from Trimble, but what is the Connected Site solution, who benefits and how is it relevant to the UK market?

The Connected Site strategy is Trimble’s vision of how the future construction environment will operate and underlines Trimble’s own move from a provider of products to a provider of solutions. It is a place where the application of advanced positioning and information technology plays a pivotal role in improving accuracy and productivity in all phases of the construction process – Feasibility - Planning – Building – Maintenance and Operating - with the ultimate aim of allowing all stakeholders in a project to share knowledge.

Based in Somerset, Gartell and Son is a growing family business concentrating on groundworks and sports field construction throughout Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Devon.

“We pride ourselves on being a family run business that offers the sort of reliable and high quality service customers can depend upon. Our customers recognise the Trimble/Spectra Precision brand and what it stands for – accuracy and efficiency. When it came to upgrading existing site equipment, we went straight for the Spectra Precision GL422 and LR60 system. We already use a GL722 laser on our bigger sites and wanted a shorter range dual grade laser. The GL422 and LR60 provide the accurate results we demand and have allowed us to make considerable material savings. We particularly liked the compensation enabled angle and plumb bob indicator on the LR60 – this has really allowed us to work faster.

Of course, not everything always goes to plan and if there has been a problem, KOREC has been quick to sort it out. Our relationship with KOREC and Technical Representative Chris Donovan has been very good and because of that, we have fitted a GCS400 Grade Control system to our dozer without needing to look at any other alternatives.”

Andrew Gartell (Partner) of Gartell and Son, Somerset.

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Trimble’s Mark Forrest (Heavy and Highway Business Manager, Construction Division) explains. “The adoption of information technology around the world from airlines to banking has revolutionised the way they work. Up until now, construction has been a technology laggard. We are now moving into a different phase due to increasing competition within the industry and the general pervasiveness of technology in all aspects of our lives.”

Jim Veneziano (General Manager, Construction Division) continues, “Progressive customers understand the need to adopt a new and more productive way of working and are making the investment in computer power and communications. The Connected Site solution is scalable and has multiple entry points - contractors of any size in the UK can invest in as much or as little as they want from a broad range of options to get started.”

Mark is quick to point out that many contractors are already using a mix of Trimble GPS, construction lasers, total stations, wireless data communications, the Internet, and application software. As part of the Trimble Connected Site strategy, these solutions can be combined to provide a high-level of process and workflow integration from the design phase through to the finished project, delivering significant improvements in productivity throughout the construction lifecycle.

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Trimble Construction LIVE! With four different stations to look at (clockwise from left, 2D Grade Control Systems, 3D Grade Control Systems, Construction Services and Site Positioning Systems), many visitors extended their visit over two days. Although interest was fairly evenly spread across the stations, the working machine area undoubtedly held our visitors for the longest time.

Those interested could get in the cab to find out more - and many did! Additional presentations showed how all these technologies could be linked up as part of Trimble’s ‘Connected Site’ philosophy.

data onto the controllers. Trimble Construction LIVE allowed us to look at taking this integration a step further with the ‘Connected Site’ philosophy. The ability to link all our partners and field workers with seamless data transfer and knowledge sharing is of particular interest.

The Costain Group is one of the UK’s leading construction companies and our strategy - ‘Being Number One’ – means that we are constantly looking for ways to move forward and adopt the latest technology to keep ahead of the game. Trimble Construction LIVE has helped us assess new ways to do this” Stuart Fagg, Land & Engineering Survey Manager, Costain.

“Trimble Construction LIVE has provided us with the perfect showcase to demonstrate exactly why machine control technology is the way forward for any contractor who wants to increase productivity, cut costs and create a safer site.

Visitors could choose from four different stations

A few of your comments on the day...

“Kelston Sparkes is a forward looking company and we have progressed from using Trimble’s laser based grading systems to the latest dual GPS GCS900 Grade Control system. Trimble Construction LIVE has been an interesting and timely opportunity to see new systems and talk to the Trimble development staff and KOREC sales team about our future plans.”

Kevin Primmer, Managing Quantity Surveyor, Kelston Sparkes Group “Trimble Construction LIVE has been an excellent opportunity for myself and Simon Westall of D&M Plant (our long standing earthmoving contractors) to be part of the development and feedback process with KOREC and Trimble.

This event has given us the chance to look at the GCS900 in conjunction with a UTS (Universal Total Station) for fine grading and find out about Trimble’s Site Supervisor System which combines a vehicle mounted GPS receiver with Site Controller Software on a Tablet PC. This in car system would be great for our construction manager – he’d be able to see exactly where he is on the site, what the cut and fill is for that point and check finished grade against design, all without input from us. On a green field site it would be perfect for initial visualisation with a map on screen of the job.”

Mark Humphrey, Design Engineer, Fitzpatrick Environmental Division

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“We found the event very informative, learning about a lot of new features that we can employ with the equipment that we already have, as well as discovering some interesting new proposals from Trimble.”

Martin Forster, Contracts Manager, Owen Pugh “We visited Trimble Construction LIVE primarily to see 3D machine control systems working in a site environment that would also allow us to get in the cab, talk to the operators and assess the benefits first hand. Our aim is to move Costain towards a ‘stakeless’ site and the main advantages of that were underlined by our visit today – increased productivity, the ability to work faster, save on materials and, most importantly, increase safety on site by reducing the number of people on the ground.

We have a long-standing relationship with KOREC and are currently using two Trimble GNSS R8 GPS, a NetR5 base and Robotic Total Stations on the M25 Widening Junctions 1b to 3 and A2 / A282 Dartford Improvement Schemes for the Highways Agency. These contracts are nearing completion and have gone very well. The integration between the total stations and GPS means that we’ve been able to cope with around 20 revisions of the design with little or no down time by simply uploading the revised

We were using Spectra-Physics lasers over 20 years ago and are a technology focused company moving from the earlier laser based systems to what we have today, the very latest Trimble GCS900 Grade Control System. We use this with either dual GPS when working to a tolerance of +/-15mm or with an ATS (Advanced Total Station) for fine grading when an accuracy of +/-5mm is required. The benefits for Sinbad Plant are clear cut. We can advise contractors and hire plant that will deliver specific competitive advantages to our customers in terms of time saving, cost savings (both in fuel and materials used), increased accuracy – the job needs doing just once to get it right – less supervision because we can work in a virtually stakeless site and less environmental impact.

We are currently using a GCS900 with an ATS to form a car park which rises and falls on a curve and covers 15,000 sqm. This

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Insite job would have been impossible with a laser because of the curve – only a 3D system would deliver. The job demanded an accuracy of +/-5mm to ensure that our tarmac usage was correct and the site was entirely stakeless. It’s difficult to know exactly how much our productivity improved on this job, but I would estimate at around 50%.

We like and understand Trimble technology and over the years have built up a strong relationship with both KOREC and Trimble.

As contractors become more informed, we will equip all our excavators with 3D machine control and events like Trimble Construction LIVE show that there is a positive move in this direction. It’s been a great showcase for the technology and machinery that’s now available and a perfect opportunity to ask questions and see how technologies can work together in a real construction environment.

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Connected Site continued

Trimble suggests three main entry points for the UK contractor depending on current need: Connecting Site Positioning Systems Connecting Grade Control Systems Connecting Mobile and Personal Assets Mark concludes, “The benefits for the contractor are clear. They have the tools to increase productivity, save time, reduce costs, achieve higher accuracy and importantly deliver the same benefits to the job’s owner in the form of accurate, timely information, managed costs and reduced risk. These are the factors that win contracts in a competitive Trimble’s Mark Forrest market. I can’t stress too highly that these benefits can be gained by even the smallest contractors – the key to the Connected Site is scalability and multiple points of entry.”

What can Connecting my Site do for me? ● Reduce unnecessary travel time and fuel costs ● Keep operators in the field where they are most productive, and reduce machine downtime through remote machine diagnosis to increase utilisation time ● Ensure all machines and site workers have the correct data as soon as it is available ● Ensure site workers are kept in synch with each other and in line with design changes from the engineer or data preparation team, and eliminate mistakes and rework caused by using wrong or out of date information Control files Surface files for volumes and laid material thickness checks ● Manage and organise project data over the lifetime of a project

Steve Simmons of Sinbad Plant

The support for an event like this shows just how much more open minded and enlightened contractors have become when it comes to looking at new ways to improve productivity. However it is not uncommon to see GPS happily used for setting out and on that same site, still see string lines, so there’s still a way to go yet.”

Steve Simmons, Director of Sinbad Plant

● Notify machine operators when design updates have been loaded into the machine control box ● Maintain firmware and software updates for the machine sensors and control box, keeping them up to date and eliminating incompatibilities between components which could affect machine performance ● Remotely diagnose problems on machines to increase utilisation time ● Know where machines are, what they are doing, and which design they are working with at all times ● Real time production and soil compaction information is available from machines and site workers as soon as a task has been completed Provides an up to the minute status of progress against schedules and status of cut/fill or compaction on each layer being constructed Reduces the need for site measurement operations through use of production data from the machines on site Better utilisation of personnel and equipment assets ● Improve equipment and personnel productivity and efficiency ● Check and control subcontractor activity ● Determine equipment utilisation by project and by asset Hours Fuel burn rate (emissions control) Idle time Working time ● Review and manage load counts, cycle times and utilisation in order to optimize performance ● Integrate the data from Trimble Construction Manager with your ERP or Dispatch system Estimated arrival times, travel times, and on road times for permitting requirements ● Plan maintenance schedules, increase operating life and avoid unscheduled down time ● Warn when unplanned events occur Out of hours ignition Unplanned leaving a Geofenced area ● Manage operator or driver compliance On road speeds Uninterrupted hours of operation

Plenty of ‘hands on’ opportunities in the 2D & 3D machine control station

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Customer Report Excavator mounted Trimble 3D Machine Control system is the perfect solution for Fitzpatrick at 1km² earthworks site UK distributor KOREC and a speedy installation of the GCS900 onto a D&M Plant Volvo EC460-GC it was clear that this system was going to deliver. Within half a day the driver was up and running and found the software pretty well self-explanatory.”

Dual Trimble MS990 integrated GPS receivers were mounted onto the back of the excavator

When it came to prepping a challenging 1km² site of Kent marshland in readiness for the construction of four enormous warehouse pads, civil engineers Fitzpatrick knew that they had a demanding job on their hands in terms of both the quantity of setting-out required and in meeting stringent environmental requirements.

Close to the Thames, the site in Kent, features over 400,000 square metres of car park, four warehouse pads – the largest occupying 95,000 square metres – and a number of tricky environmental considerations including the contouring of ponds, extensive drainage work and the accurate levelling of ditches.

Faced with an earthworks project of this size, coupled with tight time restraints, the Environmental Division of Fitzpatrick saw Sittingbourne as the perfect site to introduce 3D machine control technology into their working practices as an alternative to traditional time consuming setting-out methods. Already established users of GPS for site surveys and familiar with basic machine control technology, Fitzpatrick and their long standing earthmoving contractors D&M Plant, began an investigation into what systems were on the market and the potential benefits that they could bring to this type of job.

Using the System The KOREC team fitted four sensors to the excavator, on the boom, stick, and bucket linkage, and a pitch and fall sensor mounted on the platform of the machine.

Dual Trimble MS990 integrated GPS receivers were mounted onto the back of the excavator which would receive corrections transmitted via a radio back at the Trimble GPS base station mounted on the site office roof. These positioning sensors are used to compute the exact position of the bucket teeth many times per second. In the cab a Trimble CB430 control box uses this position information and compares it to the design elevation to compute cut or fill to grade.

Everything is displayed on the screen in front of the driver.

Back in the office Mark Humphrey used survey software to create the job design, which was then loaded onto a PCMCIA memory card for transfer of the design data to the cab-based control box. D&M Plant driver Vinnie Holton then had the

DXF file of the whole site on screen in front of him and was ready to go. “In the cab I have a choice of views including a plan view and cross section so I know exactly where the bucket is in relation to the design. The flashing light bars and audible alarms are particularly useful and I tend to use them even more than the screen. Even changes in design are no longer a headache. The new data is just uploaded by memory card into the cab.

I’m now working in a virtually stakeless environment and can get on with the job with no need for a banksman. Excavating time is slightly longer than before but using this system I know it’s 100% right first time. There’s no need to get out of the cab to replace knocked over stakes and with no one around, it’s a safer environment to work in. Work is now continuous, not the stop-start that it was before with dump truck drivers waiting around for checks” Checking Whilst D&M supplied the plant for the site, Fitzpatrick set up the control for the job including the purchase of a base station and a Trimble GPS Rover and ACU logger with software for QA checking purposes.

Daily checks are carried out by Mark Humphrey using the Rover with the same design data as in the cab loaded on the

Mark Humphrey, Design Engineer for Fitzpatrick (Environmental Division) explains, “Following our initial research we trialled a 2D system but after two days of setting it up we found it just couldn’t deliver the results we needed to get the significant time savings and ease of use that would justify our investment.

Upgrading the same system for 3D usage still wasn’t providing the versatility we required so we decided to test a more sophisticated 3D system from a different manufacturer, namely the Trimble GCS900.”

“We were aware that we would be amongst the first users in the country to adopt this technology on an excavator, but following a visit in March from Trimble’s

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Mark Humphrey checks work done with a Trimble Rover and ACU logger and inset, a typical in cab display

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Insite logger. Fitzpatrick has also taken out a license to Trimble’s VRS Now service – the same solution as used by the Ordnance Survey to achieve RTK accuracies without the need to set up a base station - enabling Mark to quickly check work on several sites in one day without the encumbrance of base station set ups.

System Evaluation Mark Humphrey is enthusiastic about the benefits of introducing the Trimble system to the site. “Aside from the health and safety benefits, we are without a doubt reducing setting-out time by around 85% not to mention saving an Amazonian rain forest by not using stakes! Although we still have a few boards around as a rough guide, this is now essentially a stakeless site. The accuracy is well within the tolerances we would expect whatever method we use, but is now achieved considerably faster. This brings us the added benefit of better utilisation of the good material that we are digging out, We know exactly the volume coming out and can therefore reduce the cost of importing additional fill.

Best of all is the peace of mind. We regularly check the machine and control and they are always +/-20mm, well within tolerance. We’ve had no need for any rework to date, everything is exactly as on the drawing and the client loves that” The success of the GCS900 system has led Fitzpatrick to back it up with a second system on the Kent site, this time on a Komatsu dozer where Mark estimates a 100% saving on setting-out time when trimming the enormous 95,000 sqm piling platform.

Future Plans Mark concludes, “It’s fair to say that using 3D Machine Control is now an integral part of our working practice. This is the first project we’ve used it on and with hindsight I can see that there are many ways that we can better manage its usage in the future for even greater productivity.

The systems are entirely interchangeable which means that we can easily move them from machine to machine depending on the factors we can’t always plan for such as weather. Reliable technology has been backed up by KOREC’s fantastic technical support.”

Update June 2008 A year on from his first project with 3D machine control, we catch up with Fitzpatrick’s Mark Humphrey to see if the benefits that the Trimble GCS900 originally brought have been transferable to other jobs.

The Garden of England is about to become the Salad Garden of England!

The biggest greenhouse complex in Britain is currently under construction on the Isle of Thanet and will provide home grown salad all year round using new high-tech environmentally friendly techniques.

This site is five times the size of the previous job Mark was working on and Fitzpatrick

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The biggest greenhouse complex in Britain

is preparing seven platforms for seven glass houses, each with their own reservoir, along with three soak away ponds and 2.5km of road. “This time we are working on an 83 hectare site and have to move around one million m³ of material. If anything the set up is even more challenging than our last site. It’s not just the scale of the project - this site is also the largest archaeological excavation currently underway in Europe. This means that we have around 45 archaeologists on site who literally follow us with a trowel and of course we have to avoid damaging anything of importance buried beneath the top soil. The down side of this is that it’s impossible to work continuously in any particular area. Sections are set out to avoid and in other areas we have to strip the top soil for checking below and await clearance from Kent County Council before we can proceed.”

Mark continues “On this job, we are again working with our long standing earth moving contractors D&M Plant, and are using a CAT D6R dozer, a D61 Komatsu dozer and a Volvo EC460-GC all fitted with Trimble GCS900 systems and have another machine coming soon.

We are using three Trimble GPS Rovers as before for checking and setting out. If we learnt anything from our last job, it’s how to better manage our systems in different areas of the site and this has been particularly useful for maintaining productivity in spite of the stop/start nature of the work. Short term planning has become very important and we are now better equipped to deal with this and manage the plant we have available.”

Each of the seven greenhouse platforms has to be trimmed to a specific and very shallow grade of around 1:500 and if not exact, Fitzpatrick will be charged for the

removal of any excess material. Mark explains, “We’re achieving +/- 20mm with the GCS900 and although the original spec was for +/-10mm this was as good as we expected and the asbuilts are spot on. We’ve been working in a virtually stakeless environment again and that’s really saved time. We’ve also been using the system to create the lagoons which are 10m deep and very steep at 1:1. It’s far too steep and dangerous for an engineer with a string line but with the GCS900 no setting out was required. An additional benefit is that we are again getting the job done right first time. With fuel costs continuing to rise this is becoming more and more important” Fitzpatrick will shortly be taking delivery of Trimble’s Site Supervisor System which combines a vehicle mounted GPS receiver with Site Controller Software on a Tablet PC. Mark concludes, “This in car system will be great for our construction manager – he’ll be able to see exactly where he is on the site and carry out checks, all without input from us. It’s another interesting development and application for GPS on the site.”

When the earthworks are completed in August, Mark will return to the original Sittingbourne site for additional work including the putting in of roads and car parks. Mark concludes, “We still have a lot to learn, but it will be interesting to return to our initial job with more experience and even better management of our systems and machines. KOREC has again provided an excellent level of support and been quick to respond to any of our requests” All information kindly supplied by Mark Humphrey, Design Engineer, Fitzpatrick Env. Division. www.fitzpatrick.co.uk

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Training & Support

KOREC News SED Round Up May 13th, 14th and 15th saw KOREC returning to Rockingham Motor Speedway in Northants to exhibit at the biggest SED show for 42 years!

With around 21,000 visitors coming through the doors, we are delighted to report that SED 2008 was our most successful show ever. Thank you to all those who visited us in the Site Equipment Zone and especially to Steve Simmons of Sinbad Plant who kindly provided us with a JCB and operator for live demonstrations of the Dual GPS GCS900 Excavator Machine Control system, Dave Collins for his static dozer showing off the GCS900 ATS system and Finning for their D6K mini excavator with LR60 and D6K with a GCS400 dual laser system.

So what was hot at SED this year - aside from the KOREC team who boasted their best ever SED suntans! The popular Trimble LM80 Layout Manager with the SPS610 robotic total station proved a huge draw, whilst inside, Trimble Construction Manager Software for Asset Management and Tracking gathered interested onlookers….particularly on a rainy last day!

Demand for KOREC training courses continues to grow, and we are pleased to announce the introduction of our most comprehensive training schedule yet for 2008.

The KOREC Training Team are Trimble Certified Trainers and we ensure that they remain up to date with the latest methods, tips and fixes from Trimble.

To request a copy of the Training program for 2008 please call 0845 603 1214 or download our brochure by visiting the Service & Support section at www.korecgroup.com

New Release Nikon NPR Series Total Stations with co-axial laser pointer KOREC is delighted to launch Nikon’s new NPR-302 Series of three long range reflectorless total stations, the NPR-362, NPR-352 and NPR-332.

Each model comes with Nikon’s patented reflectorless system technology providing long distance reflectorless measurement of up to 300m reducing the need for multiple set-ups and a co-axial laser pointer to assist with target identification and reduce aiming time. The Series features 3” and 5” angle accuracy models and high precision distance measurement accuracy of up to +/-(2 + 2 ppm x D) mm.

Designed with simplicity and productivity in mind, all instruments have an ergonomic, alpha numeric keyboard, powerful and intuitive onboard software and an onboard battery life of 16 hours of continuous angle and distance measurements. Nikon’s renowned build quality meets IP56 standards with water and dust proof protection.

New Version of LM80 Trimble has announced the release of version 4.21 of their LM80 Layout Manager, the pocket-sized personal layout tool that lets contractors enter their blueprint, creating a digital replica. This new version is available for immediate download from www.trimble.com.

New features include: • multi-point resection – now use up to five • displaying the instrument direction on the map • auto-pan to current position • total distance calculation • using the last instrument setup location

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