Ask a civil contractor running mixed machine control what actually slows a job down and the answer is rarely the technology itself. It is the fact that no two machines in the yard speak the same language. One dozer runs one brand’s display, the scraper next to it runs another, and every time an operator swaps machines they are relearning a system instead of doing the job. Machine control stopped being the hard sell a while ago. Almost every business on a job that benefits from it is already running some version of it. The harder question now is whether that fleet is running one system or five, and what all that fragmentation is quietly costing. Topcon’s answer,
NavVis, the Source of Spatial Truth for the built world, is setting new standards for capturing and documenting with NavVis CLX. The new agile, handheld capture device complements NavVis MLX and NavVis VLX and is specifically designed for high-volume, everyday documentation. With NavVis CLX, companies can put trusted, professional reality capture in every hand and on every job, accelerating access to reliable as-built data. NavVis CLX features dual LiDAR architecture, designed to ensure complete, comprehensive data capture, producing clean, low-noise point clouds that can be used for everyday downstream documentation workflows. NavVis CLX is ideal for companies managing a high volume of routine as-built documentation projects, as well as general surveying and reality capture firms with mixed project
Every day across Holcim Australia’s plants, heavy machinery and people share the same tight spaces. Loaders move fast, yards are busy, and the margin for error is thin. For a company that supplies the concrete, aggregates and precast products behind Australia’s roads, bridges and buildings, keeping that environment safe is not a box to tick. It is the job. That is why Holcim, one of Australia’s leading suppliers of aggregates, ready mix concrete and concrete pipe and products, has become one of the earliest and most committed adopters of Blindsight, the AI powered vision safety solution developed by Presien and distributed across Australia and New Zealand by Aptella. A clear line between plant and people Blindsight uses AI
Safety commitments are easy to make but proving they are working is harder. For McConnell Dowell, one of Australia’s largest engineering and construction contractors, that proof now comes from twelve months of hard data collected across a range of civil and rail projects, generated by Blindsight, the AI powered vision safety solution developed by Presien and distributed by Aptella. “We’re always looking for new ways to protect our people,” says Ashleigh Oldham, Senior Safety Advisor at McConnell Dowell. “Blindsight’s an AI system that we fit on some of our pieces of plant. We’ve been using it for about 12 months now, on a range of different projects across civil and rail.” Starting with the risk, not the technology
NavVisCLX & VLX 4 Launch Roadshow October – November 2026 Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta Catering provided Every Site. Every Day. Captured. First Look: Get an insider’s view of the NavVis CLX handheld scanner and the VLX 4 Expert Insights: Hear from NavVis’ Channel Manager and NavVis’ Customer Success Manager about the vision and technology behind the CLX Interactive Demos: Engage with our product hands-on and discover how it offers an unrivalled combination of agility, ergonomics and accuracy Seize this opportunity to see how this game-changing innovation can revolutionise your business. Space is limited, so secure your place today! Reserve Your Spot Perth, 20 October 2026, 8:30 am – 11:30 am: Duxton Hotel Perth
Latest version sees a return of MAGNET branding and some great new features to increase efficiency for both Office and Field users. MAGNET Office v2026.0 New features and improvements for Office users include: AI Chatbot: AI-powered chatbot to provide immediate, context-aware assistance within the application. Twist Screen: Feature allows the user to twist the screen orientation so that North is no longer the top of the screen. Search Context Menu: Enter the name of a routine option to find and run. Spell Check: Spell check feature added for text entities in a project. ADAC Upgrades: Highlight and pan to selected objects and report feature added. MAGNET Field v2026.0 New features and improvements for Field users include: AI Chatbot:
Today, that legacy of precision is being extended by a new generation of technology, with the firm now running a NavVis reality capture fleet supplied through Aptella, comprising two NavVis VLX 2 units and two NavVis MLX units, to compress weeks of fieldwork into hours and give clients a level of site transparency that traditional scanning could never offer. From terrestrial scanning to SLAM The firm was an early adopter of terrestrial laser scanning, bringing that technology into its measured building survey workflow well ahead of many local peers, but it came with a familiar frustration: a great deal of information gathered in the field never made it back to the office in a usable form, since the
Torsa’s Collision Management System has passed independent testing at the University of Pretoria against the most demanding validation process for collision avoidance systems in open cut mining, making Torsa the second company worldwide to pass the test. The distinction certainly matters. Plenty of systems on mine sites offer collision awareness, alerting an operator to a nearby person, vehicle or obstacle and leaving the response to them. Level 9, the highest tier in the mining industry’s framework for vehicle interaction controls, is a different proposition entirely. It means the system itself intervenes, braking or slowing the machine to prevent an incident when a hazard is detected and the operator has not responded. True collision avoidance, not just awareness. For
