Further reading

Trimble Sync Manager in two minutes on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RAlZZ21hwKw

For a more detailed review, follow this link: https://youtu.be/ot_Y8J4J3hE

Full details on the Trimble Geospatial website: https://geospatial.trimble.com/sync-manager

If you need any assistance with updating or installing any of these software packages, please contact support@korecgroup.com or call 0151 931 670.

On a recent mobile mapping mission, KOREC employee Graham Beckford was lucky enough to pass not one, but two pre-historic jewels in England’s crown – Stonehenge and the Uffington White Horse.

Despite dull and grey conditions, there was no missing the new Professional Services vehicle as it drove up alongside the ancient stone circle – one of Europe’s most recognisable and oldest monuments built around 5,000 years ago.

Mounted on top of the car is the Trimble MX9, a LiDAR based mobile mapping solution which rapidly captures pointclouds and images for highway surveys. A mobile mapping device such as the MX9 can be driven at normal speeds to capture survey data without the disruption of road closures.

Inclement weather persisted for Graham’s mission as he passed from Wiltshire and into Oxfordshire, specifically the Vale of White Horse to photograph the 3,000 year old hill monument – just visible in the background of this photograph.

Have you been on any mobile mapping adventures recently? Why not submit your pictures to our monthly KOREC Photo Competition by emailing marketing@korecgroup.com.

If you’d like to find out more about mobile mapping, our professional services division or anything else do not hesitate to contact us.

We’re celebrating the eventual arrival of the Tokyo Olympics with our own mini competition, as well as highlighting our ‘dream team’ product line up.

For the duration of the Games, we’re asking customers and colleagues alike to submit their best snaps on the theme of the Olympic motto – Faster, Higher, Stronger.

We welcome photos and videos which inspire and motivate, evoke strength or stamina, and which represent the Olympic ideals. This is your chance to let your imagination run wild, and let the spirit of the games inspire you.

We have a winning podium heaving with sweet treats for the top 3 places – a deluxe Golden Tower of goodies for the winner, choco robots for runner up, and a lucky Penny choc for third place. Send your entries to marketing@korecgroup.com before the end of the closing Ceremony (8th August) to play.

Inspire a Generation

Watching the triumphs of Team GB, with the likes of Tom Daley, Matty Lee, Tom Dean and Adam Peaty bringing home the Gold (with plenty more to come, we think!) has made us think of our own dream team.

Recent additions to the Trimble Geospatial product portfolio, such as the ‘magical’ R12i, the SX12 scanning total station, the market-leading X7 laser scanner, and the brand-new MX50 mobile mapping system, makes us think we truly have the best team around.

Couple that with our friendly, approachable and knowledgeable team of consultants and technicians, and our specialist teams covering Professional Services, Mapping, and Support – we really do think we’re the team to beat.

We celebrate this with a series of Olympic-inspired images, highlighting some of our ‘star players’.

Keep your eyes peeled on the KOREC Group social media channels to see them dotted throughout the next week and a half.

Enjoy the Games!

#TeamKG

What’s the best way to stay in the loop with the current trends, events, offers and news in the geospatial industry?

Well, one way is to make sure you’re signed up to the weekly KOREC round up email.

Every Friday, we curate a selection of the most relevant, interesting and informative content from KOREC, our partners, and the wider industry – and deliver it straight to your inbox.

That way, you know you’ll never miss out on upcoming offers, promotions, webinars or events.

And because we’re feeling extra generous, from April onwards, we will randomly select 5 lucky people from our mailing list to receive a mini R12i figure, totally free!

All you need to do is sign yourself up to the mailing list; Sign me Up!

Feeling lucky? Sign up and you could be winning!

The Ts & Cs

1. To qualify for the free gift, you must complete the mailing list sign up page in full, with your name, email address and company name
2. At the end of each month, KOREC will randomly select 5 individuals from the mailing list to win a free R12i model
3. KOREC will email the 5 lucky winners in order to obtain a postal address for sending the free gift. If we do not have a response to this email within 10 working days we will pick an alternative winner for that month.
4. Maximum of 1 free gift per customer
5. This offer is only open to customers who are based in the UK (excluding Scotland) and the Republic of Ireland
6. If no R12i model is available we will offer a gift of similar value, or higher.
7. This offer begins in April 2021. We reserve the right to withdraw this offer at any time.

We’re delighted to have been featured in several industry publications this month!

GeoConnexion UK (March/April 2021)

Our group Commercial Director, Mark Poveda uses his regular colum in this issue to look at a quarted of technology solutions that are helping the engineering and construction sectors stay safe and adapt to the new normal.

Read it here

Civil Engineering Surveyor (February 2021)

A single click…

A 21^st century workflow designed to tackle some very modern challenges

How the ECC Group tackled COVID head-on with a unique digital construction workflow designed to keep their largest projects on track, improve site productivity, cut contractor’s unseen costs and reduce the impact of COVID – all through a single click on a URL.

Read it here

AEC Magazine

A problem shared

We’re back to the ECC Group and their 21st centruy workflow with this one which was featured in the March/April issue of this useful BIM technology publication.

Read it here

KOREC Group have cemented their dedication to the construction industry, by becoming a signed-up member of COMIT.

Short for Construction Operation & Maintenance through Innovative Technology, the organisation’s mission is to foster greater ties between the construction and technology industries, in order to speed up the adoption of innovative technologies in the sector.

As a leading supplier of cutting-edge construction solutions (such as the X7 laser scanner, RTS total stations and XR10 mixed reality headset) KOREC has the solutions, the experience and the expertise to drive forward productivity, safety & collaboration in the sector.

KOREC is a leading supplier of digital construction solutions to both the UK & Irish construction markets

KOREC join major industry players such as Balfour Beatty, BAM Nuttall, Costain & Morgan Sindall in the group, and hope to play a strong role in communicating the effectiveness of digital construction workflows to industry partners – both small and large.

KOREC make their COMIT debut this Friday at the ‘Happy Hour’ event, joining a panel discussion on the theme of ‘How to leverage data from the field to drive greater Quality, Safety & Productivity on your sites’.

KOREC’s UK Sales Director Mark Reid will represent the company at the session, and join the panel discussion following a presentation by fellow member Novade.

This will be followed by KOREC’s own presentation to the COMIT members at a session in May.

Find out More

• To find out more about the work of COMIT, take a look at their website
• Take a look at KOREC’s digital construction solutions
• Follow KOREC Construction on LinkedIn

3 old total stations bound for the skip at Malcolm Hughes Land Surveyors (MHLS) in Swansea have been brought back to life and donated to the National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) to help their monitoring of shipping off the North Cornish Coast. The NCI is a voluntary organisation keeping a visual watch along UK shores and when ships get into trouble, they are there to alert HM Coastguard and direct the appropriate rescue services.

Last summer Volunteer Watch-keeper Chris Angove approached MHLS Land Surveyor Jon Grigg over a drink asking how more accurate bearings and distances could be obtained from their St Agnes Head station. Jon was able to locate 3 non-working instruments (2 Trimbles and a Geodimeter 600) from Swansea and gained permission to try to get them repaired.

Jon Grigg (MHLS Swansea) presents the 3 instruments to Jim Jefferis and Chris Angove at the NCI station St Agnes Head

In October Jon was able to arrange a free repair, service and upgrade for all 3 instruments through KOREC Group – who’s Engineer John Salter even remembered working on that actual Geodimeter 20 years ago! John, along with help from other members of the KOREC workshop team, gave up his lunchtimes to calibrate, repair and check over the instruments before passing them to Jon for use.

The NCI will be using the instruments to measure a vertical angle difference from the horizon to a ship at sea – this is used to calculate a very accurate distance (using expanded Bowditch chart calculations) as well as an accurate bearing, which can then be relayed to the emergency services to quickly reach any vessel in distress. With a visible horizon of over 20 miles, their normal estimates can sometimes have an error of several miles. Using these instruments should see any errors reduced to less than a few hundred metres which could be the difference between life and death in a rescue scenario.

A watchkeeper using a Trimble device

In mid-January the NCI station went “live” with the first of the instruments and their band of volunteers are being trained in their use. This new life given to old disused instruments could well assist in saving lives at sea in the years to come.

Setting out is a laborious, time-consuming yet vital stage of the construction process.

With our February trade-up offer, you can ensure you have the most robust, most productive and most cost-effect setting out workflow available.

To make things better, we’ll give you £4000 / €4500 to upgrade your old survey kit for a brand-new, setting out solution built for the digital construction site.

For more details of this limited time setting out offer, download our handy 1-page PDF.

Prefer to speak to an expert? Get in touch via our Contact page.

Find Out More

• Read how the RTS773 helped Felix O’Hare deliver a complex project 6 weeks ahead of schedule – Customer Story
• Read our handy blog ‘Visual Setting Out – 5 reasons why’
• Browse the full range of robotic total station solutions

A well-established policy of embracing survey technology has enabled Newry based contractor Felix O’Hare to position itself as one of the most enterprising companies in Northern Ireland for BIM and digital construction. So it comes as no surprise that under the guidance of Senior Site Engineer, Wayne Nolan, a driving force behind the advancement of survey technology within the company, that Felix O’Hare was one of the first companies in Ireland to adopt a KOREC supplied Trimble RTS and FieldLink system.

Wayne had a clear idea of what he required from a BIM compatible digital setting-out system and this useful case study explains exactly what he wanted and how he met those demands. Read the full story here.

For full details on our special upgrade offer, click here.

Who likes January? OK, don’t all shout at once. We know it’s probably the least-loved month of all, and it’s easy to see why – it’s cold, it’s dark, your bank account is decimated, and it just seems to go on, and on…

But this January is different. This is January 2021, which means that 2020 is officially over. Which is cause for celebration alone.

But January is great for other reasons – it’s a clean slate, a fresh start – the one time in the year when you can sit down, refocus and reprioritise your goals for the coming twelve months.

And whilst you’re making those plans, we invite you to consider three things – service, delivery, expertise.

“Very happy with the service from KOREC – always available when needed”

Service

What does great service mean to you? To us, it’s about making your experience as smooth, as simple and as stress-free as possible. Whether that’s purchasing new kit, undertaking training, organising equipment calibration or repair, or arranging a last-minute survey equipment hire. At KOREC, we pride ourselves on the expertise and professionalism of all our teams throughout the entire sales process – from sales to support, hire to workshop.

This was reinforced by none other than Trimble themselves in November, when both our UK & Irish workshops received Service Provider Certification for another 2 years – a seal of approval from Trimble that our facilities, our tooling and our people are offering the highest level of service available.

Our Dublin workshop team proudly display their Trimble Certification certificate

98% of customers would recommend

KOREC to a colleague

Of course, we know that things don’t always go to plan – 2020 was the living embodiment of this. We believe that the true test of character is how organisations and individuals react when things go wrong. Our dedicated teams will go above and beyond to make that delivery, repair that equipment, and make good on that promise. And even in the toughest of years, we aim to deliver –  94% of customers asked stated there was no decline of customer service in 2020 due to COVID-19.

“It is always a pleasure dealing with such a professional bunch of people, and yes sometimes things go wrong, but its a credit to the guys I deal with how quickly they ensure if there is a problem its rectified and dealt with immediately”

Delivery

Team KOREC will be back on the road from 4th January – rested, refreshed and ready to go the extra mile. Quite literally in some cases…

Newly-appointed Regional Sales Manager Amanda Bradshaw was out on a Sunday delivering kit to a client so they could be up and running on Monday with no loss of productivity.

If 2020 has taught us anything it’s the need to be flexible and adaptable and Amanda is certainly testament to that, taking her family along for the day trip.

“Amanda Bradshaw and Leigh Rowell were extremely professional when I was buying the Trimble TX6 scanner,

amazing product, amazing team”

Expertise

We are proud to supply some of the world’s most cutting edge solutions – whether that’s the award-winning 1-button laser scanning X7, taking to the skies with the eBeeX or the next-level XR10 and SiteVision visualisation tools. For us, expertise is showcasing, communicating and proving the value of these solutions to you. We do that through our national network of geospatial support technicians – located across the UK and Ireland – so you’re never far away from expert help.

90% of respondents rated our Trimble product knowledge either ‘Excellent’ or ‘Very Good’

Before Christmas we took the opportunity to thank these incredible colleagues for their hard work, skill and dedication to customer care – through our ’12 Stars’ campaign. To us they are superstars, not just in their product knowledge, but also their friendly, approachable, and can-do attitude.

To us, our Technical Support team are heroes!

If your current supplier isn’t living up to your expectations, is it time to make a change – and switch to KOREC?