Entries by SITECH

Road Construction Production Study

This road construction production study shows how Trimble Accugrade technology can take your road from layout to finished product in 47% of the time of traditional construction methods, saving you man hours, machine hours and fuel consumption.

How satellite technology works

Ever wondered how construction GPS satellite position works? Or how your mobile phone knows where you are for that matter? This short KnowHow video from our partners in the US takes a step back, and explores the basic technology and capabilities of the satellite positioning we simply call, GPS 100 foot = ~ 30m 10 […]

Efficiency helps complete earthworks project early

When Georgiu Group, a national building construction, engineering and property development company, were awarded a land development project, they took this opportunity to review their productivity and cost control. The six-month project in Alkimos, Western Australia, involved moving 600,000 cubic meters of sand, rock and limestone 1.5 kilometers between the cut and fill zones. The […]

Create corridors with ditches

See how to include a ditch beside a road responding to the elevation of the road using the Station and Elevation Table in Trimble Business Center – Heavy Civil Edition.

Technology helps a small contractor overcome a big problem

There stood Beau Wissing, staring at a mess someone else had created — and now was his to fix. “It was a disaster,” Wissing says of the parking lot being built for a new grocery store. Heartland Concrete Construction, based in Nebraska, had been hired to finish grade and concrete pave the 100,000-sq-ft lot. The […]