News — Civil Engineering
Matterport leverages AI for useful ‘Digital Twins’
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In their latest release, Matterport has given a taste of what’s to come in Reality Capture technology. They’re rolled out an update that’s free for all their subscribers where users can scan a space and then automatically generate a property report featuring a layout plan where each room has been identified by AI and categorised. As well as the floorplan, each floor area and ceiling height is listed in the report and can be exported as a CSV for onward data processing, thereby going from scan to actionable data in no time at all. Aside from this property...
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Surveytech Celebrates Ten Years of Partnership with Survipod
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Ten years ago, Surveytech were pleased to start supplying the Survipod brand to UK companies with a desire for greater equipment safety and measurement reliability.The Original Survipod™ is an innovative setting out tool which replaces the conventional and often unstable tripod. It acts as a robust and stable platform, enabling accuracy and consistency for site set-out engineers.
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Unicontrol Machine Control featuring in a new video on the Diggers and Dozers channel
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We're delighted to feature in a new video on the Diggers and Dozers Youtube channel, where golf course construction expert Patrick Quinn of P. Quinn Construction discusses how he came to choose what machine control system to put on his fleet of excavators. Spoiler: he chose to get Unicontrol supplied and fitted by Surveytech... In the video, he explains how he has invested in two Unicontrol systems for his 15 ton and 13 ton Hitachi excavators that are both equipped with Engcon tilt rotators. There are three factors that Patrick said made him choose Unicontrol: Ease of use - “we’ve got...
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Come see us at Plantworx!
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Plantworx is upon us! The UK’s premier plant and technology showcase is happening on the 13-15th of June in Peterborough. Plantworx only comes around biennially and we encourage construction and civil engineering professionals to attend and pay us a visit!