With live demonstrations, 100,00 sqm of working machines and over 200 confirmed exhibitors, Plantworx 2013 is set to be huge. The new three day event which starts on the 14th of May will feature a variety of construction demonstrations and site applications. KOREC will be in attendance with both a terrace stand and a 12m x 12m dig zone. Our dig zone will hold a dozer and an excavator both equipped with the latest machine control technology from Trimble. This will give delegates a chance to see Trimble machine control in action in a live working environment. Our team of… Read More

KOREC are pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting at this year’s Railtex. The show will bring to together technological innovation from across all sectors of the rail supply market. The KOREC team will be on hand to chat about the full range of equipment on display. Centre stage will be the GEDO rail trolley equipped with laser scanning capabilities. This provides accurate as-built survey documentation and clearance information for railway track maintenance and modernisation. The Aibotix Aibot X6 hexacopter will also be on the stand, allowing delegates a first hand view of the product which featured on Channel… Read More

KOREC’s survey consultant, Ian Hall covered how the BIM model can be used on the construction site and how you can improve your productivity and accuracy when setting out. Ian demonstrated reports showing issues and conflicts as construction progresses and talked through the simple user interface available with Trimble Field Link. The webinar was 35mins long and explains how your site workers can clearly visualise the design and set out more efficiently, check work and report back in real time. You will learn how you can extend the Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) workflow processes… Read More

KOREC is pleased to announce that along with Trimble we will be exhibiting at the upcoming Instrumentation & Monitoring event in London. Delegates at the event will have the chance to discuss Trimble’s broad portfolio of monitoring solutions with representatives from both KOREC and Trimble. The conference is in its 4th year and is expected to host 120 professionals from  the industry. Demand for monitoring is on the rise. Ageing infrastructure, construction projects, and natural events require improved awareness of motion and this provides opportunities for surveyors to expand their services and add new clients. Monitoring is a critical component… Read More

At the start of December the London Mapping Festival held their 2012 Showcase at the home of cricket; Lord’s in London. The show is the UK’s largest, free to attend exhibition for the mapping and surveying community. The prestigious venue saw over 450 attendees, 48 exhibiting organisations and a full schedule of keynotes and master class presentations. We were joined on our stand by partners from the UAV world; Gatewing and SenseFly.  Both brought their unmanned aerial vehicles which received a lot of attention from guests. SenseFly displayed the brand new eBee, the successor to the Swinglet CAM which is… Read More

KOREC recently exhibited at Scotland’s Smart Cities Conference in Edinburgh on the 31st of October 2012. The event’s aim was to bring together leading thinkers, practitioners and industry leaders to discuss the ‘Smart City agenda’, and how it might meet the complex challenges facing Scotland’s cities. Our own mapping consultant for Scotland, Craig Jarvie, was on hand to demonstrate both the Trimble Municipal Reporter system and Trimble Field Inspector. Recent government targets have meant that the use of technology has become a more important aspect when working to ensure greater freedom and flexibility in the delivery of services. Geographic information… Read More

Sometimes it’s the simple things that make life just a little bit easier and Trimble’s VRS Now is a service that more than delivers in this area. Just to remind ourselves, we caught up with Stuart Cartwright of The SUMO Group who explains just how useful VRS Now can be….. The SUMO Group is a multi-disciplinary survey business operating through a network of 30 fully equipped survey teams, strategically located throughout the UK.  The Team Sumo section of the company is currently undertaking survey work for sub-contractor GPC Cumbria, specialists in shore end work on windfarms, on RWE Innogy’s flagship… Read More

The RWM Exhibition (in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management) is the biggest event in the UK dedicated to recycling, waste management and resource efficiency and boasts 72 free seminars, 90+ key speakers and over 600 exhibitors, one of which is Trimble/KOREC on Stand 20A70. The Trimble/KOREC portfolio for this show provides complete positioning solutions and services, starting at waste collection through transportation and landfill disposal and of course representatives from both companies will be on hand to answer your questions. Trimble will be showcasing their new SiteFID solution for the first time in the UK. Trimble’s SiteFID… Read More

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.