Total Station

» Miller Bonded uses state of the art GPS software and equipment to accurately complete layout based upon our coordination drawings.

Total Station Innovative GPS Layout » With advanced technology and highly trained personnel, our layout proves to be an accurate, time and money saving process.

Total Station is surveying software and equipment that is used to identify locations of points in the field of where hangers and sleeves go based on triangulation and/or GPS. Once we have coordinated a job using Navis Works and everyone has signed off on the model we begin our next step in the process of conveying this information to the field plumbers, pipefitters, and sheet metal workers. Prior to implementing this process to convey this information we had to complete drawings and the field installers would pull measurements with tape measures and set their sleeves or hangers. Now we set points in AutoCAD for our hangers and sleeves based on the locations of the coordinated duct and pipe. Once we have completed locating the points in our coordinated drawings we export the points from AutoCAD into the Total Station equipment and lay out the points on the deck or slab for the field installers to use. This process requires coordination with the surveyors on the job so we can get the locations of columns and other key points on the site in order to make sure that the information we are producing from our detailing software is going to coincide with the building in the field. The process is very accurate and saves time and labor costs.