With Aptella’s expanding global footprint and the growth of our operations into Southeast Asia, UK and Europe, New Zealand, it is timely to reflect on the global construction laser market, from both a recent historic viewpoint and future trends that may influence the market. According to US based company, Global Market Insights, the construction laser market was valued and over $2.5 billion USD in 2022 and is anticipated to grow at compound annual growth rate over 4% between 2023 and 2032. The industry includes all types of laser levels and ancillary measuring devices including GPS receivers, machine control and leveling equipment for civil contractors and all types of levels for construction trades. The highest percentage of leveling equipment
Position Partners to rebrand as Aptella Intelligent positioning and automation solutions provider announces new name and brand launching early 2024, in response to employee and customer input. Formed in 2008, Position Partners was created when five successful Australian state-based businesses joined forces after listening to customers that wanted to work with a unified, national company. 15 years on, the firm has taken similar steps and will rebrand the organisation to Aptella, reflecting the breadth of automation and positioning solutions and services the company offers. With locations throughout Australia, Southeast Asia and New Zealand, the business supports the civil construction, building, mining and geospatial industries with world-leading technology solutions. As emerging systems develop in automation, robotics, and augmented positioning
In the ever-evolving urban planning and surveying landscape, staying ahead of the technology curve is essential. Western Australian company Harley Dykstra, a land development consultancy firm of Surveyors, Town Planners, and Project Managers has taken a leap forward by incorporating the NavVis VLX mobile mapping and reality capture scanner into their existing workflow. With offices in Perth, Forrestdale, Bunbury, Albany, and Denmark they cover a large portion of the Southwest of Western Australia which naturally means their work is diverse and requires a broad spectrum of skill sets and technologies to offer clients the best solution. “Harley Dykstra has always endeavoured to be a leader in embracing new technologies and we have been creative in applying them,” said
Fixposition AG, a Swiss-based supplier of high-precision positioning technology and the inventor of Vision-RTK, has joined forces with Aptella to offer customers in Australia and New Zealand the Vision-RTK 2, a fully integrated solution for vision enhanced centimetre-level positioning to accelerate field robotics. Aptella supports the construction, infrastructure, mining, agriculture and related applications where high accuracy Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning is required. The company’s agreement with Fixposition will enable customers in Australia and New Zealand to enhance positioning accuracy, particularly in challenging environments where signal is obstructed or inconsistent. The Fixposition Vision-RTK 2 solution augments GNSS signals using inertial measurement units (IMUs), visual odometry and other sensors, combining multiple technologies in a single platform to compensate
New advances in technology can help quarry operators reduce waste and manage end-to-end material movement accurately and efficiently. Loader and excavator scales are now commonplace in the quarry industry, providing live information to operators and management of the weight and type of material loaded into each truck on site. With accurate weight and a digital record of each load, on-board weighing systems help to ensure the safe loading of trucks to mitigate chain of responsibility risk, reduce machine wear and fuel consumption, and eliminate over- or under-loading. More advanced systems such as the Loadmaster Alpha 100 loader scale solution, are trade approved to enable quarry managers to transact off the recorded weight and ensure every load is optimised
Aptella will support customers looking to retrofit heavy equipment with Teleo’s remote-operated and autonomous solutions across Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. Intelligent positioning solution provider Aptella announces an agreement with Teleo, a US-based company building autonomous technology for heavy equipment. “With ongoing labour and skills shortages in the construction sector, there is more work to be done than there are people to do it,” said Martin Nix, CEO of Aptella. “Automation and remote-control solutions from Teleo will help our customers to increase productivity with one operator capable of operating multiple machines in a safer, more comfortable environment,” he added. With more than 30 years’ experience fitting machine control solutions to all makes and models of heavy earthmoving
Tasmanian engineering firm Gandy and Roberts recently deployed mobile mapping technology to improve its service offering for architects and builders through accurate, accessible point clouds at all stages of the construction lifecycle. As advocates for technology to increase efficiency and reduce rework, the team at Gandy and Roberts encourages clients to try out innovation and new methods. “The construction industry is notoriously slow at embracing technology, but our clients appreciate that we think outside the box a little bit and suggest giving new methods a try, both for the architects at the design phase and later the construction team,” said Klaus Stroehl, a company director. Klaus said he has kept a close eye on scanning technology for the
When Vitruvius was approached by Fulton Hogan for a solution for the monitoring part of the North Island Main Trunk Route project in the North Island of New Zealand, Richard Foot, Surveyor, Vitruvius implemented Senceive Tilt Nodes and Gateway from Aptella. Fulton Hogan needed to monitor roughly 160m of track on the North Island Main Trunk Route project and three existing rail overbridges carrying State Highway 1 in the North Island of New Zealand as part of the enabling works package. This package involved building a crash wall and piling for three new overbridges for the state highway being constructed as part of the Pukekohe to Papakura rail electrification project. Vitruvius partnered with Aptella to implement 92
