“We built a very robust integration that captures budget and the procurement cycle. The books between the Finance department and the books in e-Builder Enterprise are in sync."
“Speed to market is everything. We estimate a 15-30% labor savings on any job using Trimble SysQue with Trimble Connect and Trimble Robotic Total Stations.”
“It is mind blowing what you can do using Earthworks. It is making the job easier – as we are able to be more precise and efficient. In addition, it’s also engaging me as an operator.”
“We had to train the new operators and be on site for the first two to three night operations, until everything was optimal."
“Karp-Kneip believes in the benefits of our technology, As a user of guidance systems for its excavators, graders and bulldozers, the Luxembourg-based company has also adopted Trimble’s 3D machine control solutions for its milling subsidiary Rabotech, which supplies the site’s machines with Colas.”
“Siteworks is like a digital filing cabinet. We just grab what we need, and get to work. It’s a critical part of our connected workflow that brings the field and office together in so many ways. The office can send new models to the field just as easily as the field sends to the office.”
“More importantly, the software helps us define our strategy for the days ahead, The Activity functionality combines the data from our operations, like average volumes of dirt we planned to move, the volumes we did move on the project and which machinery we assigned to which jobs and more general info such as dates and the exact location of the job site, because that also impacts the performance. And we include the long-term weather forecast, because as an example: projects in the west of Scotland on average have more downtime due to heavier rainfall than in the east, and production rates in winter are lower than in summer due to the days being shorter. All such information is taken into consideration and allows us to accurately predict when resources will be finished on a certain project. Before having all this data we had to make an educated guess based on past experience.”
“The world is 3D, so it makes total sense to follow a full 3D workflow in our civil engineering business. Over the years we have made the successful transition from a paper-based to a full-digital workflow. The knowledge we have acquired, combined with the state-of-the-art systems and software from Trimble, supported by SITECH and Geometius, has enabled us to grow our accuracy, speed of delivery and profitability.”
“Anna and I started Malacon in 2018 after many years of working as employees in different consultancy companies and for a number of municipalities, Over time the company has grown to a team of around 12. We are part of a local cluster of smaller companies working together on projects. This means we have access to expertise in disciplines like geology, architecture, environmental and water processing, just like in a larger company. We’ve got the best of both worlds: a larger company’s wide variety of expertise and the familiarity and flexibility of a smaller company.”
“When I started at Malacon we all concluded that my knowledge of the software was good enough to start working independently."
“At Malacon, our main competence is road and street design, but we are also at home in landscape design and water and sewer engineering. Both Sara and I have been using Novapoint as our main design tool since the start of our careers. So when we started our own business in 2018, it was an easy choice to keep on using the solutions from Trimble, because we both knew that they fulfill all our needs.”
“The 3D model has become absolutely central to everything we do in the project, As a contractor, using Quadri as a model database means we always have access to the designer's model and can retrieve construction data in real time. In this way, we can use the same updated model as the designer out on the construction site and always work with the correct data.”
“Together, you should set goals early on to establish which parts are valuable for the contractor to receive in 3D, and collectively determine levels of detail that are suitable for different parts of the project. It is important to go through how the contractor can also retrieve data from the model."
“One of the challenges was to communicate obstacles, errors and the need for adjustments throughout production. Quick decisions were necessary to keep up the pace of production."
“Much of what we have done here is ground-breaking."