Application Reports

Trimble LM80 Perfect Choice for Active Learning at University of Liverpool

Trimble's LM80 Layout Manager has proved the perfect choice for University of Liverpool Engineering students keen to learn skills relevant to working on a real-life construction site.

Hobson & Porter Adopt Latest Trimble Setting Out Technology

Hull based building contractors Hobson and Porter have replaced their traditional survey instruments of theodolite and tape with the very latest in setting-out technology from Trimble. Swapping time-honoured methods for a Trimble 5600 Robotic Total Station and LM80 Layout Manager.

Trimble 3D Machine Control for Fitzpatrick Excavator

Faced with an earthworks project on a massive scale, coupled with tight time restraints, the Environmental Division of Fitzpatrick saw Sittingbourne as the perfect site to introduce 3D machine control technology into their working practices as an alternative to traditional time consuming setting-out methods.

Buckingham Group Adopt Trimble 3D Machine Control for Rail Project

Following an analysis of the West Coast Main Line TV4 job requirements, Buckingham decided that the introduction of machine control technology could provide a worthwhile increase in productivity and performance on the TV4 project.

Jones Bros Utilise Trimble GCS900 for Challenging Highway Project

Projects in Wales often have special features of engineering interest due to the difficult terrain and geology, anything from slate to hard rock. Engineers therefore need to have expertise in maritime works, tunnelling, river diversions, landscaping and environmental protection, mineral deposits and geology as well as the skills of a highways engineer.

Spectra Laser Machine Control Key to Smoother Sports Surfaces

Sports surface specialist The Landscape Company is aiming to provide an even better finished product following the purchase of a high tech laser grade display system. The system, which comprises two Spectra Precision Laser Machine Control (SPLMC) LR50 laser grade display receivers mounted on the company'�s BLEC Drag Box and a pair of SPLMC CB25 control boxes in the driver'�s cab, is used in conjunction with a Spectra Precision GL722 dual grade rotating laser.

How robotic total station technology found its niche on a landmark gas project.

Thanks to the development of the South Hook LNG Terminal in West Wales, liquefied natural gas (LNG) is set to make a return to our shores after an absence of over 20 years. The end result will be the largest liquefied natural gas receiving terminal in Europe and potentially the world. Undertaking the tank's construction is Taylor Woodrow Construction (TWC) operating as a subcontractor to Chicago Bridge and Iron (CBI). Each tank has a capacity of 155,000 cubic metres, a concrete wall 27.5m high and 0.7m thick and an interior diameter of 94m. Easily able to house an A380 Airbus, these tanks will be some of the largest structures of their type ever to be slipformed.

"Integrated Survey Engineering" key to South Hook LNG terminal project.

As gas stocks in the North Sea diminish, it is planned that Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) will be shipped to a number of import terminals around Great Britain by tanker. One such terminal being constructed in Milford Haven will receive gas from a reservoir called the North Field which is located off the coast of Qatar in the Arabian Gulf.

North Yorkshire Police select 'Connect Survey' solution for time saving at collision scenes.

The North Yorkshire Police Collision Investigation Unit operates out of two offices at Tadcaster and Thirsk and attends around 90 fatal accidents a year. In recent years the unit has increased from four officers to six and as well as attending all fatal or potentially fatal collisions now also attends crime scenes, all off road incidents and scenes on behalf of the Air Accident Investigation Branch. The increased workload, combined with the unit's desire to thoroughly investigate all scenes and keep traffic disruption to a minimum, meant that the demands on the unit's existing robotic total station purchased eight years previously were becoming very heavy.

Protecting Scarborough Harbour

How Robotic technology was used to place 280,000 tonnes of rock on one of Europe's largest coastal protection schemes.

Trimble GPS key to subsurface navigation in Scottish gas extraction test project.

As the UK's North Sea gas supply dwindles and the debate surrounding security and diversity of supply continues, the UK is not alone in experiencing gas supply problems for business and domestic users. There has been some slow progress made to diversify the UK's energy mix and a variety of programmes undertaken to aid the move from being a net exporter to an importer of gas.

How GPS proved a cost-effective solution for the survey of As-Laid and Abandoned Gas Pipelines

An on going gas mains replacement programme covering 1820 km of pipeline in 2007/8 is currently underway implemented by National Grid's Alliance Partners' in each of the four regions.

How Bradford MDC has adopted the latest in high accuracy GPS technology

How Bradford MDC has adopted the latest in high accuracy GPS technology to survey and verify all existing road signage and markings

BOGS, MARSHES and WETLANDS

BOGS, MARSHES and WETLANDS Trimble GPS proves the ideal survey solution for use on the Broadland Flood Alleviation Project

Mapping the Garden of England

MAPPING THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND - Kent County Council "Nowhere in the world will you find a landscape more ravishing than this. It's ours, to look at, to enjoy and to cherish for the rest of our lives. I would die for it." (Albert Finney when playing Churchill).

Smooth Operator

Highway Agency contractors Optima adopt GPS technology

FOOLPROOF TECHNOLOGY!

Using the Trimble 5600DR Total Station to reduce setting-out time by 40%

Taming the Coast

How Trimble GPS is enabling a new approach to coastal monitoring and analysis in the south east of England.

DataFlow

How the towpaths of the UK's canal network are being maintained with the help of GPS and Wireless Technology