For KOREC Technical Support Analyst Darius Mirdamadi, a recent training request from our Mapping Consultant Martyn Palmer, took him slightly out of his comfort zone when he found himself 2500 miles away in a mountain range in Armenia! Training a group of geologists involved in gold prospecting for Lydian International, Darius spend two days teaching them how to use their new Trimble ProXRT and Recon controller with 10cm Oministar accuracy to collect borehole information for GIS analysis. Safely back at his desk, Darius reports that the team were keen and fast learners , treated him like family and everything went… Read More

The 14 July issue of NCE featured an article on the issue of machine control for construction activities. On the 23rd August, KOREC customer Nick Caulfield of Caulfield  Contractors, an Essex based family owned company that specialises in installing drainage systems, responded to this piece in an NCE viewpoint column and explained why he decided to invest in Trimble machine control for future growth and how this technology has contributed to the work he is doing on the M25 widening project. The NCE piece is also available on line but can be viewed only by subscribers at NCE website

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

Trimble® Tornado™ antennas deliver improved GNSS and L-band performance including yield—the ability to obtain positions under difficult GNSS conditions. The antenna has been updated with the following enhancements: It no longer includes integrated magnets on the bottom of the antenna, enabling it to be used in conjunction with the Trimble LaserAce™ 1000 rangefinder. Customers wishing to directly mount the antenna on the roof of a vehicle should use a separate magnetic mount. It can now be used in conjunction with Trimble GeoExplorer® 3000 series handhelds. Issues whereby GeoExplorer 3000 series handhelds in some cases would shut down when connecting with… Read More

Version 5.20 of the Trimble® GPS Pathfinder® Office software is now available. Key updates include: Updates to the Data Dictionary Editor, improving the display of the features list, the use of graphical picklists, importing from and exporting to ASCII data dictionaries, and importing from Microsoft® Access® databases. It is now possible to print out and export to ASCII data dictionaries for Trimble TerraSync™ software version 5.00 and later. Print Preview is also supported. ASCII import has been enhanced with the ability to type or paste menu options into a form, which significantly speeds up creation of menus with many options,… Read More

Version 5.20 of the Trimble® TerraSync™ software is now available. Key updates include: Trimble QuickPoint data collection mode for easy, productive one-click data capture. Working in Trimble QuickPoint™ data collection mode, repetitive GIS point features can be collected with a single press of a button, a tap of the screen. Trimble LaserAce 1000 rangefinder integration. Data collection in QuickPoint mode is fast and efficient—just one remote measurement is required to log GIS point features to collect more measurements in less time. New Centimeter edition providing wider support for survey-grade RTK receivers. The new Trimble TerraSync software Centimeter edition supports a… Read More

The Municipal Reporter system version 1.30 is now available and includes the following enhancements: Support for the automatic export of shapefiles whose import is supported by the majority of GIS databases. Enables issue information from the Municipal Reporter system to be easily and quickly transferred and viewed with other assets and maps in a GIS. Real-time update of issues and worker locations in a GIS enables an instant view of field crews and issue status for faster decision making. When the information is in a GIS, it can be used for longer term planning such as identifying issue trends and… Read More

INTERGEO is the world’s largest event and communication platform for geodesy, geoinformation and land management so of course you can expect a strong Trimble/KOREC presence at this German show! Combining a trade fair with an extensive conference programme, the event runs from September 27th-29th in Nuremberg and promotes itself as ‘the industry’s largest and most important gathering’. The Trimble stand can be found in Hall 7, stand A105 Visit the Intergeo website for full details.

The powerful Trimble CB460 Control Box is the new premium operator interface display for the Trimble GCS900 Grade Control System portfolio. With its large 7-inch screen display, the Trimble CB460 Control Box greatly enhances the operator experience on all machine types. It is the same size screen size as the older Trimble CB430 Control Box and almost 3x larger than the CB450 Control Box. While maintaining the same display size as the CB430, the total size of the unit housing is Brighter Screen USB connection for data transfer Larger Memory and Faster Processor Slimmer box allowing more flexibility with mounting… Read More

Available to existing GCS900 users is the Trimble® GCS900 Grade Control System version 11.30 for the Trimble CB430 Control Box. The update offers several new hardware options and software functionality to make the system easier to use, more flexible to operate, and easier to transfer data across the Trimble Connected Site™ portfolio of solutions. Trimble SNM940 Connected Site Gateway for giving 2 way data flows for production reporting, updating new models directly to the machines and accessing internet based GNSS base stations Trimble MS972 GNSS Smart Antenna for cab mounted CCS900 compaction control systems Trimble HS410 Heading Sensor for the… Read More