The course is designed to enable delegates to:
- Understand Engineering Surveying and maps/plans
- Appreciate the Theory of Errors in Surveying
- Know the difference between Accuracy and Precision
- Understand the nature of errors and their effects on surveying and setting out
- Understand the need for Quality Assurance/Control
- Understand the concept of different types of site survey control (primary & secondary etc.), and site grids
- Understand the difference in coordinate systems used on site, and associated problems with Ordnance Survey National Grid
- Undertake setting out calculations from grid coordinates
- Understand the concepts of Theodolites/Total Stations
- Set up and use Total Station/EDM equipment
- Set out points using a total station and coordinates
- Undertake an as-built survey and compare with design criteria
- Use Total Station functions; resection, remote elevation measurement, missing line, and offsets from a gridline (set out from line)
