How complicated can it be to redesign a simple bus stop?

If the Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) offered frequent-contractor points, the professional land surveyors at CES Group Engineers would likely be triple-platinum members.

On many jobsites throughout the world, layout for a structure’s mechanicals is still done using a measuring tape, a string, and a lumber crayon. Not so for HPS Mechanical, which is well into its fourth year embracing layout technology based on a robotic total station.

Scotland is known for harsh weather, and this storm already had been named "The Beast from the East." The storm would hammer the region with high winds, freezing temperatures and driving snow, but Harland could not allow the monstrous weather to deter the work.

The Trimble S9 and S9 HP total stations are built for specialized applications such as monitoring and tunneling, where optimal speed, accuracy and reliability are needed.

The Leica FlexLine TS03, TS07 and TS10 models are designed to improve productivity in the field by automatically capturing height.

Sokkia’s iM-50 manual total station is designed to provide powerful performance in an affordable package.

Topcon Positioning Group announced the Topcon GT series of robotic total stations is now available for use with Autodesk BIM 360 Layout software.

The Spectra Precision FOCUS 35 is a motorized total station providing high speed, accuracy and precise measurement.

In June 2017, a freakish storm, later described as a once-in-500-year rain event, dropped more than seven inches of water on central Michigan in just 36 hours.