We’re delighted to have another guest post from one of our customers. Graham Mills from The Technics Group takes a look at the effect of 3D laser scanning on the surveying industry. Graham is the Managing Director of The Technics Group. Graham started Sitechnics Ltd, a general surveying company in 1989 and co founded Subtechnics Ltd, a utility mapping company in 1999. Now trading under the Technics Group he employs a team of 35 people and have offices in Guildford, Surrey and Maidstone, Kent. Graham is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors and is President of… Read More

Around this time last year we did a bit of research with our customers to try and find out what they really thought of us as well as listening to any suggestions they had for ways we could improve or do things differently. Most of the research was carried out using an online survey whilst a small number of our customers were interviewed face-to-face by our independent research company. This split between online and face-to-face questioning closely reflects our split between online and offline marketing over the last few years. We took a conscious decision not to attend certain industry… Read More

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

Welcome to the Autumn issue of our KOREC mapping newsletter, Sub-dio.  The latest releases, customer stories, hardware updates and KOREC opinion all feature. If you’d like to receive a hard copy, please sign up here.

My colleague Oliver Brooks’ recent blog takes a look at the hot topic of the moment in the construction and engineering world – BIM. KOREC are recent converts to the world of Twitter and there is a great deal of conversation in the ‘Twittersphere’ around BIM and it seems that everyone wants to have their say. It’s no surprise then that there are BIM events springing up left, right and centre and the KOREC calendar is looking pretty hectic over the next few months as a result. We’ll be attending a number of events for a number of reasons. Like… Read More

This time of year many people have just returned refreshed and rejuvenated from their summer holidays.  I too have just returned from a trip to the beaches of North Wales where I spent many a happy hour building a dam across a small steam flowing onto the beach with the kids.  This dam built with rocks, pebbles and sand managed to hold the relentless stream back for a few minutes before either being overwhelmed by the water or deliberately sabotaged by my youngest!  Without eyes in the back of my head it was impossible to watch the kids and all… Read More

Everyone seems to be talking about BIM so it seemed the perfect topic for my first blog.  BIM, or so I naively thought, was a fairly new concept, with various technological solutions being promoted that would fulfill all our BIM needs.  When I started to research the topic in more detail and discuss it with colleagues in the industry, the overwhelming response I received was that BIM, often under some other term, has been in use for 25 years, or even more.  It was Charles (Chuck) Eastman at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US that first introduced the concept… Read More