Quarry Keeps Finding New Savings with Drone Data

Getting stockpiles surveyed for volume to complete Vista’s month-end reconciliations was a time-consuming routine. Surveyors could deliver data on the quarry’s 40 or more acres of stockpiles in about five days. The company bought their…

Real-Time QA on the Job Site

Georgiou Group is an Australian building and civil construction company that delivers a wide range of engineering services across industries such as urban development, oil and gas, transport, precast, water infrastructure and ports and marine.…

Precise 3D paving boosts safety at transport terminal

Usually asphalt is paved with ride-ability in mind but not at the NSW Ports’ Intermodal Logistics Centre at Enfield in South-West Sydney. It requires one of the world’s most level surfaces. Bumps, uneven grades or accumulated water can…

Extracting value – using drones to survey quarries

Aidan O’Connor, the managing director of ASM Ireland, is one of the country’s most knowledgeable commercial drone operators, with particularly extensive experience in the field of quarry surveying. Waypoint caught up with Aidan to blast…

Shortening the project from 120 to 42 days

Interstate 25, a major highway through Colorado, has some of the oldest segments of freeway in the state. It was originally built in the 1950s and no efforts to modernise it were made until recently. The Colorado Department of Transform…