GPS Technology

We utilize GPS technology at our job locations to provide a high degree of accuracy and consistency with our cuts and fills. The precision obtained with GPS technology allows us to utilize our equipment effectively and efficiently and have the ability to provide our clients with a concise, tightly speced projected result.

GPS is a satellite-based navigation system that engages a network of twenty-four U.S and twenty GLONASS (Russian) satellites orbiting the earth to provide triangulation and accurate navigational signals. A land-based antenna, or receiver, can track the information provided by the satellites to compute the receiver’s position accurately. A Base Station is set up over a known point, and transmits data from the satellites to the GPS. The data received by the GPS provides high precision information of 1/10th of a foot or better.

By using the GPS system over the traditional "wooden stake" method, we are able to eliminate costly re-staking and surveying costs, as well as have the ability to control elevation and slope anywhere on the job. This allows us to increase the productivity of our employees.

How is GPS Technology Impacting Construction?

We are faced with a wide range of obstacles such as changing terrains that need to be cut or filled, areas that need culverts or bridges, along with other natural obstacles such as rivers and streams. With GPS technology, instead of the painstaking practice of stakes, tapes and transits, we can use a land-based receiver to simply move through the terrains and map the area using GPS technology.

With GPS technology, we can survey the geographical area while increasing the accuracy and speed of the survey information. You can now take that survey information and transmit that to the equipment operators who can effectively and efficiently operate the equipment to maximize investment.