Overview:
The course is designed for site managers, trainee engineers, site engineers and those who are involved in setting out and establishing survey control for construction and building work. The course is suitable for staff with some theodolite knowledge, but little or no total station/EDM experience.
The course involves a series of presentations by PowerPoint and practical exercises (both in the training room and outside) to ensure delegates understand the theory and practice of site survey and setting out. Discussion encourages delegates to question their techniques and results to ensure they get the exercises right.
The delegates will improve their understanding of site surveying and setting out equipment and techniques and appreciate the need to apply a Quality Control system to ensure results are correct, checked and documented to prevent costly mistakes on site.
Course Outline:
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
