Tag Archive for: Trimble

Create corridors with ditches

See how to include a ditch beside a road responding to the elevation of the road using the Station and Elevation Table in Trimble Business Center – Heavy Civil Edition.

Technology helps a small contractor overcome a big problem

There stood Beau Wissing, staring at a mess someone else had created — and now was his to fix. “It was a disaster,” Wissing says of the parking lot being built for a new grocery store. Heartland Concrete Construction, based in Nebraska,…

Oitagawa Dam Build with Trimble Grade Control

When your city has suffered a significant flood, the development of your reservoirs becomes even more important. This was certainly the case with the Oitagawa Dam, located in Kyushu, the third largest island in Japan. The construction of this…

Launching the new Cat machines with a show

The Official Opening of the Caterpillar Distribution Centre at Yatala went ahead last Friday (20th May). The 80 plus customers that attended the invite only event were treated to a tour of the new facility. They also watched a demonstration…

But “Old School” ways are working

Do you hear about the machine control systems out there and think ‘I could change, but the “old school” ways are working for me, so why bother’? That was what Silver Spur Constructions, from Oklahoma thought too, until they started testing…