Trimble’s Rail division are continuing to underline their commitment to the rail industry with attendance at a number of key industry events in the upcoming months. Hot on the heels of Trimble and KOREC’s support of the recent Infrarail exhibition  and our own recent Technology Day, Trimble and KOREC will be presenting our rail solutions across Europe. Ron Bisio, Trimble’s Railway Industry Business Area Director, will be presenting at ESRI’s Third Annual International Rail GIS Summit alongside Network Rail who will discuss their Roadmap for GIS. This free, two-day meeting takes place at the International Union of Railways (UIC) Headquarters… Read More

The May issue of CES magazine is the latest publication to feature a KOREC story. Click here or turn to page 35 to read “A Market Matures”.  This three page article looks at Machine Control users outside the traditional core of road and rail. Many thanks to Wayne Barr and Julius Newman of Ground Developments in Scotland who took the time to explain how they are using Trimble Machine Control on a housing development for 162 homes in North Larkshire.

KOREC is delighted to announce that it will be using this year’s Hillhead Exhibition in June to launch the first of its hands-on Machine Control Training Courses. The Trimble GCS900 Machine Control Training Course has been developed in collaboration with Trimble and will be a two-day site based, course aimed at Machine Operators. In a move away from web based training, the course will be led on-site by a KOREC instructor to ensure a more robust training experience for Operators.  This practical approach will allow those attending to see systems and machines first hand and in a context relevant to… Read More

Channel 4′s the Time Team is back for a new series. In previous years it has proved the perfect showcase for the introduction of Trimble instruments to a main stream audience…and now it will be introducing UAV technology as well in the form of SenseFly’s Swinglet CAM. KOREC’s Rob Hudson was quick to draw the Swinglet CAM to the attention of John Gater,  head of  the series’ Geophysics team and consequently yesterday saw Martyn Palmer on site with the Time Team  in North London helping them out with some aerial photography. Martyn reports that despite some strong winds, the Swinglet… Read More

Infrarail opens its doors to visitors today and it promises to be a busy show. With a number of high-profile rail projects in progress and continued debate over Sir Roy McNulty’s rail industry review Infrarail has attracted some big-hitting keynote speakers. Rt Hon Theresa Villiers MP, Minister of State for Transport will open the show today with a look to the Government’s priorities for rail reform for the future. Howard Smith, COO of London Rail heads up the list for Wednesday and Thursday sees Network Rail’s MD of Investment Projects Simon Kirby present Network Rail’s new approach to supplier engagement and… Read More