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Survey and Laser is a company that doesn't just want to hire you a total station and then drive away from you. Likewise with sales, we don't just want to shift boxes. We want you to make the most of your hire or purchase.

Survey equipment offers so much to the user today. As well as offering the basic and commonly used setting out functions, all total stations offer many other useful functions that will be of use on every site. Why not make use of them?

These functions may be as simple as accurately obtaining the height of overhead wires running over your site or checking distances from a working drawing against those that you have set out.

As well as these useful functions, even entry level total stations can offer functions as varied as roads geometry, reference line calculations and stock pile volume estimation. Once learnt, they are functions that can increase efficiency and save both time and money.

Most customers who hire total stations do so to set out. Total stations can also record survey data. Depending on how much you need to do, this data can be stored and output either as a simple AutoCAD file or downloaded as raw data or coordinates for further processing. See the NRG section below.

Survey and Laser offer conventional and reflectorless total stations from Leica, Topcon, Pentax and Nikon.

Robotic total stations offer all the functionality and accuracy of total stations with the cost saving and increased efficiency of single user operation. These instruments use Windows mobile technology and offer the user rapid setting out and surveying. We can offer the latest models from both Leica and Topcon.

Survey quality (RTK) GPS can be a deeply complicated business! Survey and Laser have chosen systems that cut out a lot of these complications. With solutions from Topcon and Leica that are aimed squarely at the construction market, many of the confusing terms and acronyms have been removed. With under a day's training a user can be using GPS to either set out or to gather data for ground work calculations. Gathering data using GPS is quicker than using a total station as no line of sight is required. As long as sufficient satellites are visible, 10-15mm accuracy is possible within a wide radius of the base unit. Data output is generally as a simple coordinate file.

Once the survey has been completed, what next? NRG software has been used by the industry since 1989. It offers a direct interface for many of the instruments we offer. A survey can either be downloaded or imported as coordinates. NRG reads the feature code that you have recorded with the survey point and draws the appropriate line or symbol. Much of the time consuming editing and drawing has been done for you.

Very few clicks are required to create a 3D model and contour lines. Stock piles are separated by assigning them surfaces and then obtaining volumes is a simple single click away. It's as simple as that. Volumes to a datum and differences between an original survey and a new surface are also easy to calculate.

Your completed plan can then be exported in many formats, AutoCAD being the most commonly used.

As mentioned at the start of this page, we will not be leaving you in the middle of a field not knowing which button to press next! Basic training on survey equipment can always be arranged. We can visit you on site and go through your hire or purchase to ensure that you gain the maximum benefit from it.