Trimble latest launch, ‘Remote Assistant’ provides real-time technical support to site workers or earthworks machine operators, without the time and cost of waiting for a technician to drive to the construction site. Trimble Remote Assistant is the latest feature in Trimble Connected Site for construction.  The new feature means less downtime waiting for a resolution equalling better site productivity, less fuel waste and a better bottom line. “With Remote Assistant, we are making it easier to resolve problems that may arise on the job site,” said Roz Buick, vice president of Trimble’s Heavy Civil Construction Division. “Supervisors can train inexperienced… Read More

Now available through KOREC are the Instructor led Trimble Courses for UK and Ireland customers. The courses available cover: – 2D GCS900 Operator for Dozers – 2D GCS900 Operator for Excavators – 3D (Total Station) GCS900 Operator for Dozers – 3D (GNSS) GCS900 Operator for Dozers – 3D (GNSS) GCS900 Operator for Excavators – Advanced GCS900 Operator / Supervisor Courses generally run for a day (6 hrs) and are based on your site utilising your machines.  You can enroll up to 4 people on a course which includes detailed fieldwork followed by manual and written assessments. Successfully completing the course… 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.

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

KOREC is delighted to announce that it has won a substantial order from Hydrex, a leading specialist plant and equipment rental company, that operates throughout the UK. The order, which includes five Trimble GCS900 Machine Control Systems, will supplement the three GCS900 systems already owned by Hydrex and effect the upgrade of three further Trimble 2D systems to 3D. The new systems will be fitted on five Komatsu D41 road/rail dozers and used by the company’s Rail Services Division. This Hydrex division operates from twelve depots nationwide and currently owns the largest and most modern fleet of road/rail excavators and… Read More

Braving the cold, blustery and extremely wet weather Cumbria has to offer, KOREC have recently supported a successful open-day in Carlisle for Network Rail. Put on by Quattro Plant, the open-day objective was to demonstrate to Network Rail’s upcoming maintenance and renewals teams how the newest rail technology can benefit them. KOREC have supplied Quattro plant with numerous state-of-the-art Machine Control systems over recent history, and to showcase Trimbles talents a Trimble GCS900 UTS system was equipped on one of Quattro’s D41 Komatsu dozers. The one day event kicked off at 9.30 in damp conditions with a minature scale demonstration… Read More

Intergeo 2009 – the world’s largest conference on geodesy, geoinformatics and land management – has once again been a hotbed of Trimble activity with new releases of Survey, Construction and Machine Control products. Full details will soon be live on our website. For those that can’t wait, here’s a quick run down of what’s coming soon…. Survey A new Trimble S3 Robotic Total Station - a great foundation for getting a survey team into Trimble’s Integrated Surveying.   A new version of Trimble Business Centre Software 2.20 – providing fully integrated corridor and surface applications for road management with an enhanced graphic engine… Read More

The KOREC Machine Control and Support team continue to demonstrate their unrivalled expertise in the UK Rail sector supporting Hydrex and Babcock Rail with yesterday’s Health & Safety and Demonstration day at Babcock Rail’s new facility in Hamilton, Scotland. The KOREC team were demonstrating the benefits of the Trimble Machine Control and Total Station solutions to Babcock Rails Technical team, with three instrument configurations on show: Trimble SPS930 Robotic Total Station with Trimble GCS900 Machine Control for grading Trimble SPS930 Robotic Total Station with a Multi-Track Prism for setting out Trimble SPS851Base Station with SPS881 Smart GPS Antenna for track… Read More