Concreting leaves no room for error. Pour a slab with incorrect fall and you’re facing jackhammers, disposal costs, and starting from scratch. Super flat floors, critical heights, proper drainage grades on hardstands, hold down bolts for columns, these all demand millimetre accuracy across vast commercial and industrial sites.
You’re managing this while dealing with skilled labour shortages and working around multiple trades competing for the same space, all while being held to top tier standards where the financial consequences of mistakes are severe.
We’ve seen the biggest uptake of digital technology from concreters, and it makes sense. Top tier commercial and industrial contractors across Australia are adopting these solutions because the efficiencies are undeniable. You’re eliminating reworks, bringing more capability into your scope like detailed excavation, and proving conformance with digital traceability instead of relying on your word.
Whether you’re a residential concreter working with tight budgets and limited resources on driveways and house slabs, or a commercial contractor managing complex industrial warehousing projects, digital layout and machine guidance technology gives you control, independence, and confidence. From initial excavation through final pour and sign off, these tools help you meet demanding specs, stay self-reliant, and deliver work that stands up to scrutiny.
The Topcon LN-50 is your gateway to modern layout technology. It revolutionises entry-level layout by providing an affordable, easy-to use total station for contractors and builders transitioning to digital
workflows.
The worlds first 3D positioning system designed specifically for construction setout. The LN-160 builds on the foundation of the LN- 50, introducing greater versatility by offering a range of 130m, and the option of using Topcon Field Software.
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The Topcon GT Series represents the pinnacle of
robotic total station technology, delivering unparalleled accuracy, speed, and reliability for the most demanding projects.
GPS layout complements optical systems by providing rapid positioning across large sites when you need 20 to 30 millimetre accuracy.This is your solution for the pre concrete phase: marking out pad footing locations, strip footings, edge boards, and any detailed excavation work where millimetre precision isn’t immediately required.
No daily setup needed, no line of sight limitations, just clear sky access. Jump out of your vehicle, turn the rover on, and start marking positions across vast distances without resetting.
The flexibility GPS provides matters on complex commercial and industrial sites where plant and machinery create line of sight challenges and multiple trades work in tight proximity.
Mark out a day ahead of excavation work, stay in front of your program, and switch to optical when you’re ready to dial up accuracy for actual concrete placement and critical positioning.
The software is identical to what you use with optical systems, so you’re not learning separate workflows. GPS handles the rapid positioning phase efficiently, letting you cover ground quickly during enabling works, then optical takes over when you need tight tolerances for pour preparation and finishing. Both eliminate dependency on physical marks that don’t survive site activity.
The HiPer CR is an ultralightweight and compact solution that minimises pole weight, ensuring easy mobility and field usability.
The HiPer XR delivers precision and efficiency, tackling your challenges with RTK accuracy and Dynamic TILT Compensation technology for effortless measurements even in difficult conditions. Its anti-jamming capabilities ensure reliable performance, while the lightweight, rugged design withstands harsh environments.
Automated marking systems like the Tiny Surveyor autonomously marks out points and lines onto your subgrade and pads.
For projects where you’re marking out building pad extents, or detailed excavation for pad and strip footings, automated systems can handle the marking process without manual layout.
While adoption is in the early stages for concreting applications, automated marking represents forward progress in efficiency for large scale commercial and industrial projects.
As the technology continues to develop, it offers potential for concreters working on massive footprint projects where manual marking is time intensive and where autonomous solutions can mark positions faster and more consistently than traditional methods.
TinySurveyor Plotter is designed for roadworks on even surfaces such as new concrete layers in road construction. The compact design makes it easy to transport and deploy. The high-visibility safety beacon and ultrasound sensors allow the robot to operate safely in spaces with live traffic or other equipment.
Reality capture provides the verification and documentation commercial and industrial projects demand. After pouring, use scanning solutions to verify tight tolerances on super flat floors, confirm proper grading on hardstands, and validate that water drains correctly into pits.
Instead of traditional methods like dipsticks and FF number markups, scanning generates fully colourised heat maps of slabs with point decimation under 10 millimetres, providing comprehensive visual data that makes conformance immediately obvious.
This elevates your deliverable to clients. You’re not just saying the work meets specifications, you’re providing detailed visual proof with millimetre accurate data across the entire surface.
For super flat floors with strict standards like 3 millimetres fall over 3 metres, or graded hardstands where drainage must flow correctly, scanning captures far more information than manual spot checks and presents it in formats that clearly demonstrate quality.
This is particularly valuable for commercial and industrial concreters working to top tier specs where proving conformance is as important as achieving it. Reality capture acts as insurance on your work, documenting what you’ve accomplished in detail that protects you and showcases the precision you’ve delivered.
Precision, accuracy, and reliability are central to what you do – they are the core principles of reality capture. And despite rapid changes, tighter budgets, and complex projects with stringent requirements, you’re still expected to do more – scan more, process more, model more, and offer more – with less.
NavVis MLX offers an unrivaled combination of agility, ergonomics, and outstanding data quality from a handheld device. It seamlessly integrates into AEC, surveying, and reality capture workflows both on-site and in-office.Â
Portalcam is the first handheld device that captures reality as interactive 3D environments using breakthrough 3D Gaussian Splatting technology.
The Lixel L2 Pro is a highly integrated, high-precision handheld 3D reconstruction device featuring an all-in-one design and simple one-touch operation developed by XGRIDS.
LixelKity K1 is a compact handheld scanning and modeling device newly introduced by XGRIDS. With a lightweight ＜1kg body, it integrates 48 MP ×2 panoramic vision modules and a 360° LiDAR, capable of real-time generation of centimeter-level colored 3D models.
Machine guidance integrates positioning technology directly with excavators and compact track loaders, bringing precision to excavation and subgrade preparation. For excavators, you’re looking at detailed excavation for strip and pad footings without marks on the ground.
For compact track loaders fitted with grader or box blade attachments, you’re achieving final trim on subgrade, spreading sand, and preparing surfaces to precise heights before pouring.
The operator sees the digital design in cab, views bucket or blade position in real time, and works to millimetre accuracy without anyone checking levels on the ground.
In the case of a compact track loader, this is fully automated control, not just an indicate only system. Hit a switch on the stick and the system raises and lowers the blade automatically based on design and machine position. You’re driving forward or backward while the system handles vertical adjustments to trim gravel at correct heights.
This matters enormously for concreters: correct subgrade heights prevent over usage of concrete that costs money and not achieving thickness that compromises structural integrity and fails to meet minimum standards.
With skilled labour shortages and tight programs, machine guidance delivers efficiency by eliminating manual checks, improving safety by keeping people out of danger zones, and ensuring work is done right the first time.
For residential concreters, machine guidance lets you create designs on site for simpler projects like pools without needing consultant drawings, building on existing operator skills with cost effective upgrades to equipment you already own.
Ditch setout in the ground. Don’t stress over lost marks or working from offsets. See and dig to design, directly from the comfort of your cab.
Prep for footpaths, garden beds, and retaining walls with precision.
External works teams benefit from MC-Mobile when grading driveways, preparing garden beds, or setting out retaining walls and drainage systems.
Projected layout systems project complete plans at full scale onto construction surfaces, showing positions visually without traditional marking. For concreters working on complex commercial projects where coordination with other trades matters, projection can display slab layouts, penetration positions, and service coordination elements simultaneously.
This technology works best in interior or structured environments where you’re coordinating placement with multiple other contractors.
While this may not be primary technology for most concreting applications, it has value in specific scenarios where visual coordination prevents conflicts during placement or where you’re working closely with mechanical, electrical, and plumbing contractors on complex slabs with numerous penetrations and embedments.
Projection shows everyone the same information simultaneously, reducing coordination errors and helping ensure accuracy on placement intensive projects.
The Mechasys XR Projector ensures consistent accuracy and enhances the efficiency of your layout operations with a highly productive visual workflow.Â
The Topcon LN-50 is your gateway to modern layout technology. It revolutionises entry-level layout by providing an affordable, easy-to use total station for contractors and builders transitioning to digital
workflows.
The worlds first 3D positioning system designed specifically for construction setout. The LN-160 builds on the foundation of the LN- 50, introducing greater versatility by offering a range of 130m, and the option of using Topcon Field Software.
The Topcon GT Series represents the pinnacle of
robotic total station technology, delivering unparalleled accuracy, speed, and reliability for the most demanding projects.
GPS layout complements optical systems by providing rapid positioning across large sites when you need 20 to 30 millimetre accuracy.This is your solution for the pre concrete phase: marking out pad footing locations, strip footings, edge boards, and any detailed excavation work where millimetre precision isn’t immediately required.
No daily setup needed, no line of sight limitations, just clear sky access. Jump out of your vehicle, turn the rover on, and start marking positions across vast distances without resetting.
The flexibility GPS provides matters on complex commercial and industrial sites where plant and machinery create line of sight challenges and multiple trades work in tight proximity.
Mark out a day ahead of excavation work, stay in front of your program, and switch to optical when you’re ready to dial up accuracy for actual concrete placement and critical positioning.
The software is identical to what you use with optical systems, so you’re not learning separate workflows. GPS handles the rapid positioning phase efficiently, letting you cover ground quickly during enabling works, then optical takes over when you need tight tolerances for pour preparation and finishing. Both eliminate dependency on physical marks that don’t survive site activity.
The HiPer CR is an ultralightweight and compact solution that minimises pole weight, ensuring easy mobility and field usability.
The HiPer XR delivers precision and efficiency, tackling your challenges with RTK accuracy and Dynamic TILT Compensation technology for effortless measurements even in difficult conditions. Its anti-jamming capabilities ensure reliable performance, while the lightweight, rugged design withstands harsh environments.
Projected layout systems project complete plans at full scale onto construction surfaces, showing positions visually without traditional marking. For concreters working on complex commercial projects where coordination with other trades matters, projection can display slab layouts, penetration positions, and service coordination elements simultaneously.
This technology works best in interior or structured environments where you’re coordinating placement with multiple other contractors.
While this may not be primary technology for most concreting applications, it has value in specific scenarios where visual coordination prevents conflicts during placement or where you’re working closely with mechanical, electrical, and plumbing contractors on complex slabs with numerous penetrations and embedments.
Projection shows everyone the same information simultaneously, reducing coordination errors and helping ensure accuracy on placement intensive projects.
The Mechasys XR Projector ensures consistent accuracy and enhances the efficiency of your layout operations with a highly productive visual workflow. Whether you’re working on floors or ceilings, its advanced positioning technology provides best-in-class visual projection, adaptable to any job site.
Automated marking systems like the Tiny Surveyor autonomously marks out points and lines onto your subgrade and pads.
For projects where you’re marking out building pad extents, or detailed excavation for pad and strip footings, automated systems can handle the marking process without manual layout.
While adoption is in the early stages for concreting applications, automated marking represents forward progress in efficiency for large scale commercial and industrial projects.
As the technology continues to develop, it offers potential for concreters working on massive footprint projects where manual marking is time intensive and where autonomous solutions can mark positions faster and more consistently than traditional methods.
HP SitePrint is an autonomous, robotic solution that reads 2D plans and prints them directly onto the floor of a construction site. The device is capable of printing not only lines, but other elements such as points, arcs, and text too.
TinySurveyor Plotter is designed for roadworks on even surfaces such as new concrete layers in road construction. The compact design makes it easy to transport and deploy. The high-visibility safety beacon and ultrasound sensors allow the robot to operate safely in spaces with live traffic or other equipment.
Reality capture provides the verification and documentation commercial and industrial projects demand. After pouring, use scanning solutions to verify tight tolerances on super flat floors, confirm proper grading on hardstands, and validate that water drains correctly into pits.
Instead of traditional methods like dipsticks and FF number markups, scanning generates fully colourised heat maps of slabs with point decimation under 10 millimetres, providing comprehensive visual data that makes conformance immediately obvious.
This elevates your deliverable to clients. You’re not just saying the work meets specifications, you’re providing detailed visual proof with millimetre accurate data across the entire surface.
For super flat floors with strict standards like 3 millimetres fall over 3 metres, or graded hardstands where drainage must flow correctly, scanning captures far more information than manual spot checks and presents it in formats that clearly demonstrate quality.
This is particularly valuable for commercial and industrial concreters working to top tier specs where proving conformance is as important as achieving it. Reality capture acts as insurance on your work, documenting what you’ve accomplished in detail that protects you and showcases the precision you’ve delivered.
Precision, accuracy, and reliability are central to what you do – they are the core principles of reality capture. And despite rapid changes, tighter budgets, and complex projects with stringent requirements, you’re still expected to do more – scan more, process more, model more, and offer more – with less.
NavVis MLX offers an unrivaled combination of agility, ergonomics, and outstanding data quality from a handheld device. It seamlessly integrates into AEC, surveying, and reality capture workflows both on-site and in-office.Â
Portalcam is the first handheld device that captures reality as interactive 3D environments using breakthrough 3D Gaussian Splatting technology.
The Lixel L2 Pro is a highly integrated, high-precision handheld 3D reconstruction device featuring an all-in-one design and simple one-touch operation developed by XGRIDS.
LixelKity K1 is a compact handheld scanning and modeling device newly introduced by XGRIDS. With a lightweight ＜1kg body, it integrates 48 MP ×2 panoramic vision modules and a 360° LiDAR, capable of real-time generation of centimeter-level colored 3D models.
Machine guidance integrates positioning technology directly with excavators and compact track loaders, bringing precision to excavation and subgrade preparation. For excavators, you’re looking at detailed excavation for strip and pad footings without marks on the ground.
For compact track loaders fitted with grader or box blade attachments, you’re achieving final trim on subgrade, spreading sand, and preparing surfaces to precise heights before pouring.
The operator sees the digital design in cab, views bucket or blade position in real time, and works to millimetre accuracy without anyone checking levels on the ground.
In the case of a compact track loader, this is fully automated control, not just an indicate only system. Hit a switch on the stick and the system raises and lowers the blade automatically based on design and machine position. You’re driving forward or backward while the system handles vertical adjustments to trim gravel at correct heights.
This matters enormously for concreters: correct subgrade heights prevent over usage of concrete that costs money and not achieving thickness that compromises structural integrity and fails to meet minimum standards.
With skilled labour shortages and tight programs, machine guidance delivers efficiency by eliminating manual checks, improving safety by keeping people out of danger zones, and ensuring work is done right the first time.
For residential concreters, machine guidance lets you create designs on site for simpler projects like pools without needing consultant drawings, building on existing operator skills with cost effective upgrades to equipment you already own.
Ditch setout in the ground. Don’t stress over lost marks or working from offsets. See and dig to design, directly from the comfort of your cab.
Prep for footpaths, garden beds, and retaining walls with precision.
External works teams benefit from MC-Mobile when grading driveways, preparing garden beds, or setting out retaining walls and drainage systems.
Aptella has tailored the Tokara service to deliver benefits for a wide range of stakeholders
involved in a civil construction project, including:
