Fundamentals of Surveying
 
Surveying is an exciting, rewarding, and secure profession. There is a great demand for competent engineers and surveyors. This is a great starter course for beginners or a good revision for graduates to upskill and learn to use Total Stations and levelling equipment as well as practice settinng out methods.
 
Graduate training market
 
The market is good; employers seek competent graduates who can easily work using surveying equipment. Search the CV library for site engineers or setting out engineers. Pay rates range from £120 to £300 per day.
You may have achieved your degree years ago, or studied the setting out and surveying unit in the first year of the degree course, and are out of practice using surveying equipment. The training will ensure you can work on site unaided.
 
You could earn about £1000 per week within a year.
 
Graduates have always had a tough time. We know this because we went through the same process many years ago. We understand the difficulties graduates face in securing employment.
 
Employers pay high rates to agencies and rightly expect value for money. Although recruitment agencies advertise for graduates, they are very reluctant to employ one who graduated a few years ago and cannot use Total Stations and other surveying instruments. It is significantly worse for overseas graduates.
 
Key learning topics:
Setting up the total station, carry out relevant calibration
Sources of error when using a total station
Techniques for improving and checking your accuracy and precision, view, edit, add, and delete data
Install a network of primary control points from scratch
Install accurate secondary control points (retro targets)
Create a local coordinate system
Measure and set out reduced levels with the total station
A range of methods for plumbing columns and walls
Set the position and orientation of the total station
take a topographical survey and record the results
Measure the distance and heights between points
Stake out points of known co-ordinates using the stake out
Stake out points in relation to a baseline using the reference line function
Import and export data
Relationship between Total Station and GNSS equipment 
When to choose mechanical and robotic total stations
Emergency First Aid
 
At the end of this course you could progress to the advanced level course which is offered in the afternoons.
 
Locations:
London:
8 Saturday morning sessions over two months or 8 consecutive days from the first to the second Saturday of a month: £1245.00 plus VAT (£1495)
 
Times: 08.30 am to 12.30 pm
 
 
To book this course, please complete the online booking process or make a bank transfer payment, including your name as a reference. 
 
Finchley College (this is a business account)
Sort code: 09-01-27
Account no. 44018113
Alternatively, pay online, www.finchleycollege.com
 
For more information, please call Reza Nobakht on 020 8143 8970
 
Email: finchleycollege@yahoo.com