Entries by SITECH

No room for error at 322 km/h

Racetracks are often one of the most demanding jobs. The paving needs to be smooth – at 322 kilometres per hour (or 200 miles per hour) there is no room for error. Scotty’s Contracting & Stone were well aware of this when constructing the National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park in Kentucky, USA. Tolerances were tight […]

Visualising mining data

According to Nathan Pugh, Business Area Director Mining Solutions for Trimble, the easy solutions for achieving efficiencies have been achieved. Companies now need to connect their different silos in the mining environment and value chain to optimise their operations and achieve efficiencies. Nathan details how the Microsoft HoloLens is able to help companies do that […]

GDA94 has updated to GDA2020

The Geocentric Datum of Australia was adjusted on 1 January 2017. This is to combat the movement of the tectonic plate on which Australia sits, more than 1.5m north-east since 1994. This movement creates discrepancies between local and global coordinates that are derived from GNSS. Make sure that you are aware of the sources of […]