We are now less than a week away from the live virtual event and conference Infrastructure Now, and KOREC’s virtual stand is having the finishing touches applied today. Registration is free, and the show runs on Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd September. The conference programme provides a chance to hear from leading industry experts involved in UK Infrastructure and with the impending Comprehensive Spending Review and associated 25% cuts looming it aims to deliver some answers to the challenges this presents the industry. Conference Highlights include: Infrastructure specialists from KPMG and Davis Langdon live webinar on the Funding Environment Nuclear… Read More

To conincide with the release of Trimble Business Centre – HCE v2.10, Trimble have also released SCS900 v2.71. This release comes shortly after Trimble released v2.70 of SCS900, however it is not just an interim release. 2.71 brings a number of hotly anticipated addon features Avoidance zones Tap-and-hold deleting of points or lines Level compensator cailbrations for Total Stations

At the end of the 3 day GNSS training course run this past week in Huntingdon, a little time was spent going through how to check the optical plumb on the tribrach. We spend a great deal of time making sure that when we establish new control points using GNSS that the processing is done to a high degree of precision. However during the course of the survey the antenna is generally mounted in a tribrach on top of a tripod. It therefore seems sensible that before undertaking a control survey that the circular bubble and optical plumb on the tribrach are tested. These… Read More

For all those who use Trimble office software to post-process GNSS survey data there is now a new configuration update file available dated 20th August 2010. 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

Yesterday saw KOREC’s Andy McCann and Ross Smith team up at a Network Rail organised event in Tuebrook, Liverpool. Attended by Network Rail staff from the North of England and Scotland, KOREC rubbed shoulders with other invited plant suppliers inlcuding Hydrex and Quattro Plant. The Network Rail event was the perfect opportunity to show off our Network Rail approved GEDO CE Track Measurement Device (TMD) and our Trimble range of Machine Control and Site Positioning Systems including the SPS882 GPS and SPS930 Universal Total Station. In the picture from left to right we have KOREC’s Ross Smith and Network Rail’s… Read More