Construction Set Out: Australian Builders’ New Best Friend
Construction Set Out: Australian Builders’ New Best Friend
Introducing Construction Set Out
Have you ever tasked your skilled tradesmen with hours of set out, painstakingly using a string line and tape measures? Or forked out hundreds in labour costs, only to discover your work was out by a few critical millimetres? Suffered extra project time re-doing your work, or trying to organise a surveyor to come to site?
You are not alone.
An estimated 90% of construction sites Australia-wide are still using string lines and a tape measure for set out. This leads to measurement mistakes, which leads to project delays and an increase in project costs to fix these mistakes. Surely there’s an easier way. That’s why Total Tools is offering a hassle-free, easy, construction set out solution for builders across the country.
This construction set out technology takes a building plan and positions it to your real-life job site, saving on labour costs and time. If your project makes use of a crane or is a large commercial build, you need digital construction set out! With the ability to stake all manner of points and lines, see your position relative to the design and check your work instantly, you take full control over your work and deliverables.
The Topcon LN-150
Topcon’s digital construction set out kit, the Topcon LN-150, offers millimetre accuracy and integrates seamlessly into your workflow.
On average, 30% of sites use a surveyor for site set out, which is costly, and they are not always available when you want them. Australia is currently facing a national shortage of around 1,500 surveyors, which makes things just that extra bit difficult. The other 70% of sites put the liability on sub-contractors to set out their own points with string lines and tape measures.
The traditional string line method, apart from often leading to measurement mistakes, is also tedious. Traditional string lines involve two or three labourers walking around with a paper plan, tape measure, and string line - that’s your workers spending hours not on the tools.
As a self-levelling instrument, builders can use the Topcon LN-150 by simply referencing a few points on site, and letting it calculate the rest. With one instrument, one builder, and a few minutes, the Topcon LN-150 dramatically reduces mistakes, decreases labour costs, time on site to get the job done, and costs associated with re-work.
Never touch a string line again!
Discover what Topcon’s LN-150 construction set out kit can do for your next project. If you think measuring more accurately and efficiently sounds good to you, just contact the team at Total Tools and never set out a string line again.
