March 3-5, InterContinental Hotel, Houston, Texas
5th Annual Conference on 3D LASER SCANNING • DYNAMIC SURVEY • LIDAR • DIMENSIONAL CONTROL
- New technologies for design, construction and asset management
- Best practices for surveying, capturing and engineering with existing-conditions data
- Dimensional control for new construction and revamp projects
- Dynamic/kinetic/mobile data capture
- 3D laser scanning, LIDAR, GPS, digital imaging
- Expanded three-day format
WHO ATTENDS?
Project managers, design leaders, asset managers, engineering managers, survey heads, dimension control managers and discipline leads...
...from civil infrastructure, transportation, offshore construction, shipbuilding, process manufacturing, automotive manufacturing, power generation, and defense and security organizations.
WHY ATTEND?
SPAR 2008 serves up fresh ideas from the smartest, most experienced people we can find on how to apply surveying, dimensional control and position measurement technology to the design, construction and operations of capital assets. Conference topics range from making the business case for using new technologies such as laser scanning, to integrating laser scanning, total station, GPS/RTK and airborne LIDAR data with design, fabrication, construction and operations databases. We also have the world's best suppliers of hardware, software and services who send their top technical and business people. These suppliers recognize that SPAR 2008 attendees take the good ideas they find and validate at the conference, and drive them forward in their own organizations. We aim to help design leads, project managers, surveyors, construction managers, maintenance managers and others who commit their careers to increasing their organizations' productivity and project execution competence.
SPAR 2008 attendees come to upgrade their skills and to learn from the very best practitioners about the best ways to address the technical challenges found both in the field and in the office. Best practice is a moving target – the technology for data capture, registration, and integration with CAD and other engineering and asset management systems and visualization is changing quickly. The conference program is designed to allow plenty of question-and-answer time and one-on-one discussions. Finally, attendees at SPAR 2008 can compare the newest technology from all the world's leading suppliers of 3D laser scanning and dimensional control solutions. SPAR 2008 saves attendees weeks of time otherwise required to track down the top technical people who are inventing and developing these new technologies.
Fresh technologies and work processes for solving engineering, construction and operations challenges – that's SPAR 2008.
Conference Take-Aways – Learn how to:
- Write scope documents to get the deliverables you want on upcoming scanning projects
- Capture all collateral costs to avoid budget-busters on scanning projects
- Assess which of your CAD suppliers support point cloud data integration and how they will support you
- Decide what capabilities are needed in-house for successful project execution and what is best sourced to third-party service providers
- Judge the competence of service providers
- Get your IT department's support for storing and managing point cloud data
- Use advanced laser scanning techniques to reduce the cost of survey work currently executed with manual methods and older technology. Learn when to stay with traditional methods
- Get more value from previously purchased laser scanning hardware and software by refining survey, design, fabrication and construction work processes and improving post-processing efficiency
- Drive rework costs and construction growth to below 1% from current 5% or greater levels on revamp and modification projects
- Reduce project schedule and limit downside exposure to schedule change and scope creep
- Improve dimensional control for new construction and revamp projects
- Improve safety of survey operations by removing personnel from harm's way through remote data capture
- Minimize facility outage and shutdown time with improved construction sequencing and planning visualization
- Improve accountability of engineering, fabrication and construction
- Minimize disruption and inconvenience to the public for road, bridge and tunnel projects
- Understand and assess the capabilities of the world's leading suppliers of terrestrial laser scanning software and hardware to support your project execution processes
SPAR 2008 is the fifth annual Spar Point Research conference focused on advanced dimensional control work processes and 3D laser scanning technologies. SPAR 2007 attendance topped 575 from 20 countries.
