Accuracy from the get-go

Lowcock Builders is a 4th generation family-owned construction business based in Bowen, Queensland. Specialising in commercial builds, director Jack Lowcock explains how deploying surveying and machine control technology has helped to streamline workflows and increase accuracy on recent projects. The company invested in Topcon’s LN-150 robotic total station to enable fast, accurate set out of designs without the need to offset from PDF plans or create profiles. “Before the Topcon total station we had a manual instrument that you needed two people to operate,” Jack said. “The LN-150 is much more user friendly as a fully robotic, one-person setup.”   With Topcon’s FC-6000 field controller running MAGNET Field software, the Topcon LN-150 solution uses optical positioning technology to set-out