Setting Out For Construction

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What you'll get:

Levelling and Taping;

  • The principal of levelling
  • Levelling terminology
  • About the level
  • Setting up the level
  • Reading the staff
  • Parallax
  • Staff verticality
  • Checking and adjusting the pod bubble
  • Principal of the 2 peg test
  • Two peg test booking example
  • Level survey principal
  • Level survey booking example
  • Transferring a TBM principal
  • Transferring a TBM booking example
  • Transferring a TBM calculations and checks
  • Inverted staff reading
  • Inverted staff reading booking example
  • Setting out levels
  • Checking levels
  • Profile boards for level excavation principal
  • Profile boards for sloped excavation principal
  • Profile boards for drainage run preparation calculations
  • Profile boards for drainage run booking example
  • Profile boards for drainage run demonstration
  • Batter rails principal
  • Batter rails for an excavation tutorial
  • Batter rails for fill tutorial
  • Setting up a laser level

Total Station

  • Introduction to the total station
  • About the total station
  • Setting up over a point
  • Best practice observing
  • Calibration certificate
  • Putting it into the box
  • Temporary and permanent adjustment
  • Collimation checks - Observing
  • Horizontal collimation error booking example
  • Vertical collimation error booking example
  • Diaphragm orientation check
  • Traverse principal
  • Traverse booking example
  • Traverse whole circle bearing 
  • Traverse table
  • Resection
  • Volume of a stockpile
  • Reference line/reference arc
  • Instruction for a resection (Leica TS06 or TS09)
  • Instructions for stakeout function (Leica TS06 or TS09)
  • Exporting data from the total station
  • Importing data into the total station
  • Setting up control points for practice exercises

Maths: Basic angles, distances and coordinates

  • Outline and objectives
  • Introduction to Pythagoras
  • Pythagoras (how to calculate the diagonal of a rectangle or triangle)
  • Pythagoras - Worked example
  • Calculator short cut for Pythagoras
  • Quiz 1: Pythagoras
  • Introduction to angles
  • Convert decimal angles to degrees, minutes and seconds
  • Quiz 2: angles
  • Trigonometry basics
  • Enter INVERSE sin, cos, tan in your calculator
  • Quiz 3: Trigonometry
  • Introduction to coordinates
  • Distance between two coordinates - worked example
  • Quiz 4: Coordinates
  • Introduction to Whole circle bearings
  • WCB worked example 1
  • WCB worked example 2
  • WCB worked example 3
  • WCB worked example 4
  • Quiz 5: WCB
  • Test yourself
  • Summary

£340.00 GBP

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