Let’s be honest. Construction is rarely straightforward, especially when it comes to project design and layout data. Sometimes you have a model. Often times, you don’t. That’s why you should choose a layout solution that is perfectly suited for both. Enter the Trimble RTS Series.

With the Trimble RTS, you never have to limit yourself to either 2D linework, or 3D models simply because the Trimble workflow ensures that either method is a simple and as efficient as possible. Why choose, when you can have the best of both?

Construction Happens In Plan View
There’s a reason buildings have been built from the top-down vantage point of the plan view. It’s accessible, familiar, and it just works. The Trimble 2D workflow has been refined and developed over the past 15 years to create the most seamless and intuitive experience in the industry. Whether generating points in the office using Trimble Field Points (link) or in the field with Trimble Field Link, the 2D realm is easily inhabited by your RTS unit. And because it’s been built with usability and functionality in mind, you’re creating points and taking shots and measurements in hours, not days.

Laying Out From A Model Couldn’t Be Easier
Increasingly, fully coordinated models are being provided to the project stakeholders. These models contain a wealth of depth and information. But all of this information is useless and wasted without accessibility. Trimble Field Link helps to effectively filter, categorize, and display the model information that is most important to you, for your specific task. Leveraging the power of fully capable field computers, you can easily load and navigate the actual building model in the field, giving an unprecedented level of visibility and perspective that allows project teams to quickly identify and alleviate issues and errors before they become change orders.

With Trimble Field Solutions, you can easily leverage 2D plans, 3D models, or both on your next project. To see this powerful capability on your project, simply contact your BuildingPoint representative today, or simply click the link below to request an on-site demonstration.

Check out the first of our new Tips And Tricks videos covering Trimble Field Link. In this short video, we show you how to install Trimble Field Link with Trimble Installation Manager, along with some other helpful tips to get you started. To see more videos in the series, click the link below.

We’ve heard it a million times. “Thinking out of the box” is a good thing in nearly every instance. But there is one time where it isn’t the best solution. Reporting. Reports are the common currency in which your company communicates and evaluates current progress. Powerful, insightful reporting allows contractors and project stakeholders to instantly grasp emerging trends and issues before they snowball into complex problems and schedule delays. And custom reporting is much more than just placing your company’s logo at the top of the page.

The reality is that every company and project is different. Relying upon an out of the box report often misinterprets or doesn’t fully account for the variables that make your project and organization unique. With Trimble Prolog, users have complete and unfettered access to the industry’s most mature and extensible reporting structure. This means that your reports answer the questions that matter to you.

Trimble Prolog leverages the power of both Microsoft SQL and Crystal Reports to provide a familiar interface for editing new reports, or creating your own. In fact, Trimble Prolog comes pre-populated with over 400 reports that you can customize or tweak as a starting point, further decreasing the time it takes to get started with truly customized reports. And of course, BuildingPoint is at your side to help you scope, design, and implement your reports. If you’d like to learn more, contact your BuildingPoint representative today.

Satellite positioning and layout has traditionally found a place in heavy civil and geospatial applications. The open sight lines and clear view of the sky are perfectly suited to tasks where a wide expanse of the horizon is visible at any point throughout the day. Additionally, this technology has continually been refined to provide a remarkable level of accuracy and repeatability. With the Trimble R8s and Trimble Field Link, now you can bring the simplicity and reliability of satellite layout to your building construction site.

As a solution engineered specifically for building construction, the Trimble R8s combines the simple and easy setup of GNSS, with the familiar and intuitive Trimble Field Link interface, which is purpose-built for building construction and the challenges contractors face every single day. This powerful pairing means that you can layout footings, foundations, and even check existing conditions with the same data used for your precision layout tasks. For quick and easy measurement and verification, the Trimble R8s presents a turnkey solution that is easy to learn and operate.

To learn more about the Trimble R8s, check out our short video over view on our product page by clicking the link below. To schedule an on-site demo, contact your BuildingPoint representative today.

Sure, we all know that the early bird gets the most robust meal options every morning, but can contractors say the same thing when it comes to business development models and visualization?

Historically, comprehensive BIM deliverables are often developed once a project has been secured. But more and more often, contractors are finding that an effective VDC strategy is to push this model creation earlier into the business development process. As the Foundations team briefly discussed on a recent podcast, bringing low detail models into the pre-bid stage can greatly increase cost transparency and visibility into how a project is actually constructed. But specifically, how is this accomplished?

Precision layout technology, such as the Trimble RTS873 or the Spectra Precision QML800G have been proven to dramatically increase the efficiency of interior layout for even the most straight-forward and basic designs. But setting aside this fact for a moment, what about the other end of the spectrum? What about layout projects that are painfully complex and irregular?

More and more often, contractors are finding themselves challenged with completing large, intricate and irregular projects that possess constantly evolving shapes and footprints. And these challenges are also continuing to push further into the construction site as well. As owners request more organic and natural design influences, interior wall layout can become a daunting task, very, very quickly.

One of the unique advantages to application-specific interior layout solutions is the ability to layout varying levels of complexity with the exact same level of effort. Using an RTS or QML solution, interior contractors have the ability to completely ignore the inherent complexity on any particular project and simply focus on performing remarkably accurate layout. Imagine laying out out a 40 foot s-wall in the same amount of time it takes to layout a conventional perpendicular wall set. With precision positioning, this efficiency is possible.

To learn more about our interior layout solutions, or to schedule an on-site demonstration to see how you can make complexity irrelevant on your next project, contact your BuildingPoint representative today, or simply click the link below.

One if the biggest issues facing the construction industry is the need for detailed and accurate CPM schedules. However, it’s no easy task to make CPM schedules actionable, and get the reliable progress updates you need from the field. With LeanSight, Trimble is introducing a solution for this problem. LeanSight can work with your CPM schedule and makes it easy for your project team to track work completed and submit progress reports. Cloud and mobile solutions help to put the actionable schedule in the hands of the field team.

Learn about the all-new Trimble LeanSight in next week’s Trimble Webinar on Tuesday, March 28th at 12:00 Eastern.