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Tough Choices and Laser Scanning Won
by Corey Bell, CM-BIM, BuildingPoint Mid-America
I could have stayed longer but with the recently updated Trimble TX8, we completed a target-less registration in less than 4 hours.
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As-Built Distillery
It's that moment when you find yourself at a crossroads where personal interests and work intersect: You realize that you get to perform a laser scan of a currently operating Bourbon distillery and you're a huge fan of Bourbon.
You're faced with some tough choices. After avoiding the temptation to dive headfirst into a wooden vat of honey-colored miracle elixir, we went ahead and performed a scan of the area.
The choice of equipment and its technology was easy, however. This area could best be described as a stacked stone basement, craggy walls, damp and dark, and very congested. Yet with using the recently updated Trimble TX8 with camera, we performed 7 scan setups and then completed a target-less registration of the space in less than a total of 4 hours.
All told the process of setting up the scanner in each location took longer than the scan themselves.
Quick Registration
Then, using Trimble RealWorks, the target-less registration took less than 15 minutes to complete. Not too bad for an area where one would be hard pressed to find many square edges or surfaces to use for mapping station to station. This project brought new meaning to the slogan "will work for booze." So if you need your distillery or other building that is missing proper as-built information, let us know and we will be happy to show off the power of these combined products.
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To deliver polished, professional estimates that reflect your corporate brand, WinEst's built-in features include Custom Reports
Estimators need, on a regular basis, specific reports that shows an estimation with:
- Estimate break-down structure
- Estimate summaries (Uniformat, UCI Codes, by Building or Area, etc.)
- Estimate clarifications/qualifications
- Estimate Mark-ups (shown or hidden)
Trimble's WinEst estimating software has built-in features that allow users to create and run their own specific/custom reports. The estimator can quickly:
- Create a view of the estimate within the software and print that exact view
- Utilize XML coding to create reports that are linked with special WinEst keywords
- Utilize additional tools to make their reports and summaries more dynamic
- Improve their workflow
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Gaining Success with Project Access Controls
Construction projects are difficult enough to manage on their own, not to mention the added complexity of
safety, security, and compliance.
Trimble's CrewSight allows the monitoring and controlling of project sites, along with the project's workforce costs.
Safety and Security Used To Be a Gamble
Throughout the years, construction sites have been considered "safe" by using fences and by having faith in people--when in fact, those type of strategies failed to effectively provide security 24/7. With the influx of high-profile construction and high-security project sites, access is quickly becoming a major differentiating factor for success among contractors and owners.
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Sure, you can always put up a fence and keep most people out, but what will prevent folks from sneaking in, en masse, in front of others, or from entering the site during off-hours? Further, how can you track the site entries accurately with the utmost faith that everyone is properly accounted for?
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A Secure Site Can Now Be A Sure Thing
Trimble's CrewSight not only offers the ability to monitor and control the access of people onto your site, it also allows the ability for people to be accounted for at safety meetings or for verification of crew sizes, and includes reporting tools. You can also identify "hot" or "no go" zones on a project and identify specifically who may have entered into an area that should not have.
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Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to monitor access, your site can reduce safety issues, improve visibility on workforce costs, and operate with improved control.
Accountability Is Key For Keeping The Site Secure AND Safe
CrewSight can be paired up with cutting-edge access control solutions to monitor only your workforce teams on the jobsite. These tools also help management teams identify when certain individuals make it on the site. In addition, unauthorized or unmonitored individuals can no longer be dodged-in when others enter.
Aside from safety and security, compliance on projects is another important factor in your success. Monitoring the workforce for MBE/WBE/DBE for onsite workers or other specific requirements will be greatly improved and simplified.
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