Jon Rasmussen, Director, AME Surveys purchased the Tiny Surveyor from Aptella for use in the rail line project the team are currently working on. This project involved setting out 200km of rail line. To lay the sleepers down they needed a mark on the ground every 3m. “It makes life easier! I personally went down and did about 2.5km for the railway line, half of that was on an arc, so marks every 3m and that would have taken at least 10 hours in the field but with the Tiny Surveyor it took 2.5 hours. There’s a definite 4-to-1 ratio there,” said Mr Rasmussen. “It also frees us up in that it means that the whole job is
Intelligent positioning solutions provider Aptella to distribute Omnidots’ innovative wireless vibration monitoring equipment throughout Australia and New Zealand. Omnidots specialises in easy to setup, autonomous, reliable vibration monitoring systems for use in infrastructure and geophysical applications. Under the agreement, Aptella has been appointed Master Distributor for the Omnidots range. “The Omnidots solution is unique in its capacity to deliver a fully automated, wireless, and integrated vibration monitoring platform that can be installed and setup in minutes,” said Andrew Jones, Monitoring Marketing Development Manager at Aptella. “The Omnidots range compliments our other deformation monitoring solutions and has already received very positive feedback from customers using it for commercial construction and infrastructure projects,” he added. Vibration monitoring equipment is important in
Rob Lyon, Registered Surveyor and Director, ARP Surveyors, an expanding start-up business focussing on cadastral surveys and engineering surveying has been using the Topcon Total Station from Aptella for the past 12 months for all his cadastral surveying purposes. Mr Lyon initially purchased this instrument due to ease of use and the quality of support provided by Aptella. “It was the simplest system I could find with the best offer in respect to support, which is especially important when it comes to the use of a new instrument and getting the job done,” said Mr Lyon. Topcon Total Station improves systems and processes After implementing the Topcon Total Station, Mr Lyon found that he was able to
James Sharpe, Survey Manager, CPB Contractors, purchased the Tiny Surveyor GPS line marking robot from Aptella for the West Gate Tunnel Project that involves an upgrade of the existing West Gate Freeway and a new tunnel. “It’s quite a major upgrade of an existing freeway in the western suburbs of Melbourne. It involves a complete reconstruction of the freeway, it’s not just a widening, we’ll basically be rebuilding the whole freeway in stages” said Mr Sharpe. “The Tiny Surveyor will be used for all the projects moving forward. There’s always an intensive road line-marking component on all our road projects.” Why the tiny Surveyor? Another CPB Contractors Project team was already using the Tiny Surveyor so Mr Sharpe
Reece Wilson, Director of Shire Services, Central Darling Shire Council purchased the Tiny Surveyor – Road Line Marking robot from Aptella for a range of road works projects including an initial seal works project. “Central Darling Shire is the largest council in NSW but it’s got the least population, we cover about 53,000 square kms and we have a fairly vast unsealed road network so a lot of the roadworks we do, not only for our own councils but also under contract with Transport NSW, are initial seal works,” said Mr Wilson. “The Tiny Surveyor comes in very handy for those capital works projects with roads. They’re normally 5-10 km sections at a time and we need to
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The National Measurement Institute (NMI) advises that industrial scales should be calibrated every 6-12 months depending on the stresses applied to the scale, or after major hydraulic work is completed on the scale. This is for maintaining accuracy, fairness, and to comply with regulations that could otherwise cost you. Maintaining accuracy No matter how robust your industrial scale is, over time it becomes less accurate from natural wear-and-tear. Maintaining accuracy is important for both trade and non-trade purposes, including adhering to the load bearing capacity of a machine, or ensuring you have enough of a certain material for a construction project. When measuring large quantities of material, even a small discrepancy in the scale’s accuracy can result in
