We are delighted to welcome our first KOREC guest blogger, Steve Bury, owner of Bury Associates Ltd.  Steve has kindly taken the time to tell us how the FARO Focus3D laser scanner and the rise of BIM has changed the way he works. Specialists in BIM and laser scanning services, topographical surveys and measured building surveys,  Bury Associates has been providing its clients with Revit Building Information Models of existing buildings and structures since 2007.  Last year the company’s Revit work on Manchester Central Library contributed to it being named as the ‘most BIM friendly project’ of 2011. Steve’s blog:… Read More

Here is a list of the latest Trimble Survey Division Software & Firmware versions as of 22nd November 2011:- Trimble Survey Controller Version 12.49 (TCU, TSC2) Trimble Survey Controller Version 11.40 (ACU, TSCe) Trimble Access 2011_10 Trimble Digital Fieldbook 6.0.2/7.0.1 Trimble Data Transfer 1.54 Trimble Business Center 2.60 Trimble DINI R 2.0.2 Trimble 4D Control 3.0 Trimble Real Works (Standard + Advanced) Version 7.0 Trimble S6/VX/S8 Firmware 12.2.47 Trimble S3 Firmware M2.1.21 Trimble R8GNSS, R6, R7GNSS, 5800II 5700II Firmware 4.19/4.05 Trimble 5700I, 5800I Firmware 2.34

KOREC is delighted to announce that Dominic Gregrory has been appointed to the position of Survey Sales Consultant for Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and the North East. Dominic has over 11 years of site based experience in surveying and project management roles and has gained extensive hands-on experience of both GPS and Optical instruments in his previous positions for Halcrow, Jacobs and Tata. Responsible for the sales and hire of the full Trimble range of survey instruments for KOREC, Dominic graduated from Newcastle University in 2000 with a degree in Surveying & Mapping Science and gained his RICS Chartership in 2007. Dominic… Read More

It has been brought to our attention that the Ordnance Survey UK are planning to perform maintenance work on their OSNet active GNSS base station system. This will impact all systems related to the OSNet, including Trimble’s VRS Now amongst other GNSS network RTK correction systems in use within the UK. The maintenance work is planned to take place between the hours of 0900UTC and 1000UTC (9am to 10am GMT) on 20th November and 27th November 2011. The planned work is expected to result in a total loss of connections to the OSNet station data stream for up to 45… Read More

Trimble have recently released an online version of their popular (and free!) planning tool for GNSS applications, available at http://www.trimble.com/GNSSPlanningOnline/. If you’ve not heard of the planning tool before, it allows a user to plot the course of the various GNSS constellations over the next 30 days by using a downloaded almanac. The beauty of the online planning tool is that it allows you to view the same information but without having to download any almanac or install any software, thereby taking a step out of the process. The user can position themselves (or their impending survey) using an easy… Read More

5 times smaller and 4 times lighter than its nearest rival, the FARO Focus3D laser scanner has been described as a ‘game changer’ within the industry and as the Focus 3D’s UK distributor, KOREC can only echo this opinion. However when we interviewed Juan Pablo Lemaitre, FARO’s Div. VP of Sales and Marketing, EMEA, at the recent Intergeo show in Germany, the talk was all about FARO’s newly launched SCENE WebShare Software V4.9 for direct 3D measurements on the Web. “‘WebShare’ is the feature that pleases me most about the Focus3D,” explained JP. “It’s a powerful tool for the easy and safe… Read More

The latest edition of GeoConnexion is out now and features two articles from KOREC. Our Operations Director, Oliver Brooks, is a regular contributor with his  ‘Modern Surveying‘ column and this month looks at the subject of smart metering. Not to be outone, KOREC’s Mapping and GIS Consultant, Martyn Palmer, identifies the data capture challenges facing the Utilities and offers up a few solutions incuding Intelligent Trench’s RFID technology and Cloud Computing. The full article can be read online at www.geoconnexion.com  

For all those who use Trimble office software to post-process GNSS survey data there is now a new configuration update file available dated 17th October 2011. This file updates the antenna and receiver information used in GPS post processing to ensure that the best possible levels of accuracy are achieved from your data. As the Ordnance Survey take advantage of the regular improvements in receiver and antenna technology it is important to keep up to date with the characteristics of any new hardware in order to calculate GPS positions accurately and correctly. The latest Configuration update file can be found… Read More

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It has come to our attention that it is no longer possible to compute fixed positions from GNSS (GPS) observations using Trimble Geomatics Office software. This results from the number of GPS seconds rolling over 1 billion shortly after midnight on 14th September 2011 (0 seconds having been set on 6th January 1980) and the WAVE Baseline Processor not being able to handle the numbers involved therefore any data observed on or after this date will not process to a fixed position in TGO. It is still possible to process float solutions although this does not usually provide sufficient accuracy… Read More