Beginner to Advanced Setting out training
 
This course is intended for beginners, graduates, assistants, and junior engineers seeking to learn to use surveying equipment and to be able to work as a junior engineer or a surveyor.
 
It will improve your skills and employability prospects by learning to use manual and robotic Total Stations, levelling equipment, and GPS, as well as the principles of levelling, surveying, and setting out. You will also learn to read general arrangement plans, sections, and elevation drawings.
 
This course is offered on the first three weekends of each month for two months (12 days), as well as a block of 9 consecutive days from the first Saturday to the following Sunday, with another 5 days two months later.
 
We also provide post-training support by email or telephone.
 
Should you require a qualification, upon completion of the beginner-to-advanced course, you should register for the ProQual Level 3 Diploma in Engineering Surveying. The normal fee for existing engineers is £1595, but learners progressing from beginner to advanced will only be charged £195 in certification fees. 
 
Course content
 
Total Stations
· set up the total station over a point
· carry out relevant calibration checks.
· (horizontal and vertical collimation error, trunnion axis, prism constant, optical/ laser plummet, diaphragm orientation)
· list the possible sources of error when using a total station
· list techniques for improving and checking your accuracy and precision
· view, edit, add, and delete data
· install a network of primary control points from scratch (traverse)
· install accurate secondary control points (retro targets)
· create a local coordinate system
· measure and set out reduced levels with the total station
· describe a range of methods for plumbing columns and walls
· set the position and orientation of the total station using the resection
· set the position and orientation by setting up over a known point and referencing another known point
· take a topographical survey and record the results systematically
· measure the horizontal distance and level differences between points
· stake out points of known co-ordinates using the stake out function
· stake out points in relation to a baseline using the reference line function
· import and export data
· discuss the relationship between Total Station and GNSS equipment 
· explain the scenarios when you would choose mechanical and robotic total stations
 
Levelling and taping
Course content:
 
· Record work correctly and to the industry standard
· Incorporate robust checks to all levelling
· List the sources of error in levelling
· Carry out a level survey (existing features or as-built)
· Set elements to a fixed level, i.e. top of concrete levels
· Measure the reduced level of ceilings and soffits
· Transfer Temporary Benchmarks (TBM) to create new Temporary Benchmarks (TBM)
· Check that the level is in correct calibration – two peg test
· Set up profile boards for level excavation
· Set up profile boards for sloping excavation
· Set up batter rails for cut and fill
· Apply the principles of various levelling equipment
· Calculate gradients for the purpose of setting out
· List the sources of error in taping
· Set out right angles and rectangles using a tape measure
· Set out on sloping ground
· Incorporate checks when setting out using a tape measure
 
Detailed practice and understanding of Total Stations, manual and robotic
Total Station programs
Setting up instruments over a point
Establishing instrument position by various Resection programs
Establishing bearings (north direction)
Setting out programs and methods
Setting out piling, external works, drainage, groundworks, RC and steel frames structures
Setting out roads, arcs and ramps
Working out slopes, gradients
GPS for establishing site control, surveying and setting out
Revision of levelling
As built surveys
Extensive setting out practice using site drawings
Learning to use two man and robotic Total Stations
 
 
Please note that to achieve a qualification, learners must progress to the Diploma in engineering surveying course at additional fees. 
 
For further information, please contact Reza Nobakht on 020 8143 8970
Or, email us at finchleycollege@yahoo.com
 
Fee: £2329 plus VAT (£2795), plus £195 certification charges payable at the end of the course.