This 3-day course comprises days 3-5 of the 5-day course, Setting Out For Construction. It is aimed at anyone is required to use a total station for setting out or surveying on a construction site. You will receive 3 month free 'Community' SOFC Membership and will be issued with a CITB certification completion of this course.
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Description
Course content
By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:
- Set up the total station over a point
- Carry out the relevant calibration checks (horizontal and vertical collimation error, trunnion axis, prism constant, optical/ laser plummet, diaphragm orientation)
- List the possible sources of error when using a total station
- Use techniques for improving and checking your accuracy and precision
- View, edit, add and delete data
- Install a network of primary control points from scratch (traverse)
- Install accurate secondary control points (retro targets) using the correct procedure
- Create a local coordinate system for a building on gridlines
- Use the correct procedures for measuring and setting out reduced levels with the total station
- Describe a range of methods for plumbing columns and walls
- Set-up the position and orientation of the total station using the resection or occupied point programs
- Take a topographical survey and record the results systematically
- Measure the horizontal distance and level differences between points using the tie-distance function
- Set out points of known co-ordinates using the stake out function
- Set out points in relation to a baseline using the reference line function
- Set out points at given chainages and offsets along a radius e.g. road centrelines using the reference arc function
- Measure irregular areas and volumes
- Transfer large amounts of data from the total station to the computer and vice versa
- Describe the capabilities and limitations of GNNS equipment
- Describe the capabilities of robotic total stations