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What is BIM? Building Information Modelling (BIM) uses software to create a model of a building that reacts to change in the way that the real building would. It is designed to make an integrated and collaborative approach to construction possible. Where CAD depicts construction elements with lines that define a structure's geometry, BIM creates each element of the structure...

The selection of a laser scanner can be a difficult decision. 1. Type of laser (wavelength) – How well does the laser reflect off the type of surfaces to be scanned?  Are you scanning metal objects, topography, wet surfaces, dark surfaces? 2. Spot size (pulse width, beam divergence) – What will be the size of the laser spot on the...

Note: you will need the “LGO Surfaces & Volumes calculations” license (Art: 778087) to perform the following – please contact sales@sccssurvey.co.uk for pricing info. 1)    Import a list of 3D points into a Project (from Excel as a CSV, or from observed data from TPS/GNSS). 2)    In the ‘Surfaces’ tab along the bottom of the screen, right-click in the top-left...

During the night of 14 May 300,000 m3 of rock broke off the Valegion mountain and crashed down 1,000 m to the valley floor in the Swiss canton of Ticino, near the village of Preonzo. Thanks in part to Leica Geosystems’ Deformation Monitoring solution GeoMoS local authorities were able to evacuate the valley’s industrial zone and to close the A2...

The 70 employees of the six companies in the industrial zone have resumed their work. But even after this event in Preonzo the Leica Geosystems monitoring system will continue to monitor the slope accurately to protect the people. "More observation points will be installed in an extended zone around the fracture area, which will be continuously monitored for their stability...