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    SITECH products on the job—top left, clockwise: Robotic Total Station; Trimble machine guidance gear; In-cab monitor; Trimble Tablet
BuildingPoint Pacific). The Trimble dealership of- fers laser levels, construction lasers, optical instru- ments, machine control systems, surveying and en- gineering software, GPS systems, and accessories.
MOVING DIRT SMARTER
Within the next decade, contractors won’t be able to compete without machine control technology. Developers already request it in the bid process. “It’s changed the way we move dirt,” said David Larsson back in 2015—now general manager of BuildingPoint Pacific. “In the old days, you moved dirt twice: once from the cut to a stockpile, then to the fill. With 3D machine control, you can control the cut and the fill at the same time. Now dirt gets moved once.” The results? Heightened efficiency, faster cycle times, and less wear and tear on the machine and the operator.
But it’s a lot more than just the hardware. SI- TECH sells a process. The SITECH team spends half their resources training customers on their new systems. Trimble software maps a jobsite and broadcasts that information out through the Cloud so everyone on the job is working from the same view in real-time. Gone are the old blueprints spread out across the hood of a contractor’s truck. Trimble Business Center (TBC) software takes a CAD file and turns it into a 3D rendering on a screen right inside the cab. The operator knows ex- actly where he’s at because he can see his machine on the screen. He knows what his elevation is and where the edge is. He knows how to adjust his moldboard for the cut. Or he can flip a switch, and the blade will drive to grade automatically. “Today, we can make a machine like a motor grader thirty to fifty percent more productive,” says David Lars- son. “It’s not about horsepower anymore. It’s about
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