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How Much Do Construction Layout Errors Cost?

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When it comes to construction layout, even a very small error can lead to potentially serious consequences. Just being a few degrees off on an angle can result in pre-fabricated systems not fitting correctly at install. Incorrect layout often results in clashes with other elements or services, disrupting the schedule, creating re-work, wasting materials, time, and money. These mistakes add up to significant losses over the span of a project:

 

When it comes to construction layout, even a very small error can lead to potentially serious consequences. Just being a few degrees off on an angle can result in pre-fabricated systems not fitting correctly at install. Incorrect layout often results in clashes with other elements or services, disrupting the schedule, creating re-work, wasting materials, time, and money. These mistakes add up to significant losses over the span of a project:

 

When it comes to construction layout, even a very small error can lead to potentially serious consequences. Just being a few degrees off on an angle can result in pre-fabricated systems not fitting correctly at install. Incorrect layout often results in clashes with other elements or services, disrupting the schedule, creating re-work, wasting materials, time, and money. These mistakes add up to significant losses over the span of a project:

 

What if there was a smarter way to work? A way to perform layout directly from the building model without manual measuring? What if there were tools created specifically with the layout contractor in mind, that were accurate down to the millimeter, and increased production by over 50%? What if those tools cost less than the average construction layout mistake?

Trimble RPT600

The Trimble RPT600 Layout Station is the building construction professional’s newest essential tool to make short-work of common building layout and as-built measurement projects. The system measures distances and finds positions simply and easily, enabling your team to deliver accurate field work.
Applications:

  • Floors
  • Walls and ceilings
  • Formwork
  • Mechanical
  • Electrical
  • Plumbing

Trimble Robotic Total Stations

The Trimble® RTS Series Robotic Total Stations help contractors perform building construction layout and data collection tasks significantly more efficiently because the workflows are built specifically for contractors. Featuring Trimble Field Link software, the RTS series offer multiple levels of precision and feature sets to meet the needs of a broad range of customers and applications. With convenient, flexible one-person operation, you can move fast to perform jobsite layout and measurement tasks in the field with confidence. The system measures distances and finds positions simply and easily, enabling your team to deliver accurate field work.
Applications:

  • Layout of control
  • Layout of excavation lines
  • Layout of concrete forms and anchor bolts
  • As-built checks
  • Layout of control lines on concrete paid for subcontractor
  • Layout of hangers, sleeves and underground pipe

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