11.26.25 | Jacquelyn Miller
By Randy Allen, Senior Survey Project Manager and Lidar Mapping Manager, ESP Associates, Inc. Let’s be honest: not many people get excited about roundabouts. But Randy Allen sure does! To the untrained eye, it’s just concrete and asphalt, but they are a microcosm of civil engineering. Read more about the mapping of their design and …
11.25.25 | Jacquelyn Miller
A road less traveled: Minnesota’s Department of Transportation’s innovative journey to cloud-connected construction: The innovative journey of how a major department of transportation progressed to cloud-connected construction and achieved $4.7 million in savings. READ MORE
08.26.25 | Jacquelyn Miller
When faced with mapping over 10,000 linear feet of utility tunnels, Colliers Engineering & Design applied advanced scanning technology, including the Trimble X7 3D laser scanner, rather than rely on traditional surveying methods. Article (starting on page 16)
12.2.24 | Cristy Cormier
Read how RPS ensured the stability of Brisbane, Australia’s heritage-listed Story Bridge during a construction project using a Trimble automatic geotechnical monitoring system, including Trimble 4D Control with the help of dealer UPG. Customer story
04.10.24 | Cristy Cormier
FACTO GEO was asked to provide a survey of a data center in Paris, measuring the roof to a milimeter level so that a critical dry cooling system could be installed properly. The team used a combination of Trimble SX12 scanning total station and Trimble X7 3D laser scanning system to perform a combined survey …
03.7.24 | Cristy Cormier
Civil engineering firm Proyform Global uses the Trimble MX50 mobile mapping system and the Trimble SX10 scanning total station as part of their technology stack that helps them efficiently asses the state of flight fields at airports around Spain, improving safety. Juan Pablo Jiménez, founder of the Madrid-based Proyform Global, said, “Trimble is here to …
08.25.23 | Cristy Cormier
Surveying airfields regularly is required, but many airfields in the UK are in remote locations with limited cellular service and vertical guidance to aircraft can obscure the satellites that deliver GNSS data. Matt Currie, a flight inspector and support engineer with Thales Group, leverages the advanced capabilities of both Trimble correction tools, VRS Now and …
08.10.23 | Cristy Cormier
Maintaining roadways is a challenge for any transportation agency, requiring multiple site visits, testing, mostly paper-based historical documentation and considerable experience. Read how National Highways in England used technologies, including Trimble MX9, Trimble DA2 and Trimble Catalyst, to create a living digital twin, resulting in improved asset resilience, increased asset life and a safer smoother …
06.19.23 | Cristy Cormier
Calgary-based Global Raymac facilitated Strathcona County’s first fully registered digital twin roadway inventory that is now foundational to the county’s asset management activities. Read More
05.17.23 | Cristy Cormier
Constructing 23 miles of natural gas pipeline in northern Michigan required surveying and engineering firm Wade Trim to perform extensive survey construction staking and as-built measurements to comply with rigorous requirements. Integrating Trimble Access Pipelines software into the process optimized all survey data into the master project database to deliver the utility company’s required metadata …
05.3.23 | Cristy Cormier
In the last two years, the GBM Group has embarked on a growing opportunity to use 3D laser scanning to advance and optimize cell tower inspections across Bosnia and Herzegovina, allowing customers to better manage and monitor tower structural integrity. Read More
04.14.23 | Cristy Cormier
Find out how New Zealand survey firm, GPSit Precision Land Mapping, used Trimble Catalyst subscription-based GNSS positioning to scale-up agricultural mapping of kiwifruit orchards. Read More
03.16.23 | Cristy Cormier
Read how Geo Infra, a civil engineering design agency in The Netherlands, is embracing 3D laser scanning technologies to provide flexible surveying services to civil engineering and contracting firms. Read More
02.2.23 | Cristy Cormier
Efforts are underway to restore the Mediterranean seafloor through reforestation of seagrass. A huge part of this has been done with the help of underwater photogrammetric surveys and object-based image analysis (OBIA). Learn how a research team utilized Trimble eCognition in this study. Read More
10.24.22 | team@eighthats.com
 Published DateOctober 10, 2022 Géodunes is a French environmental consulting firm based on the Côte d’Opale in Dunkirk. It specializes in coastal development and geomorphology and is currently in charge of analyzing the effectiveness of sand replenishment activities at the Alliés Dike in Dunkirk. The dike is part of an important flood prevention program which …
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10.17.22 | team@eighthats.com
A Walk in the Park  Published Date September 30, 2022 With help from the local geospatial community, high school students in Port Colborne, Ontario, created new maps for the District School Board of Niagara (DSBN) Adventure Campus Outdoor Education Center. Jonathan Fletcher, an innovative geography teacher at Port Colborne High School, jumped at the chance …
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10.5.22 | team@eighthats.com
Learn how Ryan Companies US Inc. is using Trimble software and hardware solutions to transform 122 acres of land—of the former Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant—into a thriving urban community.
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10.5.22 | team@eighthats.com
Discover how a Trimble Inpho workflow and a Phase One camera helped Germany’s LGL bring new life to historical aerial images, showing how the Baden-Württemberg landscape has changed over time since the Second World War.
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