Total Station Surveying & Setting Out Training Course

Learn how to quickly set up the total station, station and orient, set out lines and levels for buildings, kerbs, manholes, and gullies. Use free-stationing to avoid obstacles when setting out, calculate areas and volumes, prepare drawings in AutoCAD, and more.

Attend Hitechniques' Lantra-accredited Total Station Training Course, gain an industry-recognised qualification, and be more confident on site!

Who should attend

If you work on a construction site in any capacity that involves setting out or surveying for new buildings you should know how to use a total station. This course will cover all you need to know to get started using a 2-man or 1-man robotic instrument.

What you will learn

• setting up  total station
• stationing and orienting to a direction and backsight point
• resection/free stationing from known points
• setting out lines and levels for buildings, kerbs, manholes or gullies
• prism and reflectorless surveying
• OSI Planning Packs - digital & paper
• calculating areas and volumes
• quality control
• and more

Training Schedule

• 09:00 – 11:00 Setting out – Freestationing, setting out points & lines in the surrounding area, recording set out points for quality control
• 11:00 – 12:00 Surveying – set up over a point, survey lines, features & utilities, move to a forward station, continue surveying.
• 12:00 - 12:30 Lunch break
• 12:30 – 16:00 How to set up site control, prisms & prism constants, georeference, surveying essentials

Note: Although the training course is carried on GeoMax total stations with MicroSurvey, FieldGenius and GeoMax X-PAD software, the class gives you firm base for using total station of all different brands.