Finchley College
Advanced Setting out, site surveying and site engineering
course syllabus and practical exercises list
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Theory and practice learning to use surveying instruments
History of Total stations and their development
Practice sessions with the aim of learning to;
Creating jobs, folders, naming jobs
memory management, types of memory, their capacity and differences
entering, editing, searching and deleting data as well as naming points
Distance measurement, slope, horizontal and vertical distances
Applications and benefits of distance measurement in real life situations
Calculating distance from instrument to one or more points
Measuring distance between remote objects
Measuring angles and distances using automatic levels
Using automatic levels for rough setting out and surveys
Levelling using distance measurement
Using total stations for levelling through coordinate system
Using dumpy, automatic and laser levels for levelling
Testing equipment for accuracy and calibration
Levelling with automatic levels using standard format
Inverted and negative levels
Drawing contour lines in a levelling survey
Measuring angles using Total station and automatic levels
Practical exercises using Total stations
Topographic survey of a road
Survey of internal and external features of a building
Plotting surveys using Auto Cad or drawing on graph paper
Total station programs and Setting out methods and technique
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Site engineering practical tasks
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Site engineering practical tasks
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Reading and understanding construction
drawings including;
Architects, engineers and reinforcement
drawings
Understanding sequence of operations in
ground works
Knowing what is going to happen next
and what is required of you as an
engineer
Establishing control networks
Creating your own grid systems from
scratch
Working on large projects with global
coordinate systems
Working on very small projects were no
control points are provided
Understanding global and local grid
systems and how to manipulate them
Traversing
Types of traverse, open and closed
networks
Planning a traverse and adjustment
methods
Checking an existing traverse
Using part of a closed traverse as an
open traverse
Using spread sheet programs to adjust
raw data of a traverse
Carrying out site surveys
Surveying façade of a building for line
and level
Levelling
Using dumpy level, reading staff,
Setting out and calculating distances
using dumpy levels
Calculating areas and volumes
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Checking dumpy level, laser level and
total stations for accuracy and calibration
Testing total stations for horizontal
angle, vertical angle and levelling
Adjusting levelling bubbles on levels and
total stations
Plumbing lift shafts and building facades
using string lines and plumb lasers
Using a local coordinate system for
plumbing
Checking a column for plumb
Checking beams and ceilings for level
Controlling verticality and plumb of a
building during construction
Deciding on number, size and location of
plumbing holes
Safety measures when using plumb
lasers
Checking if two walls are parallel
Calculating internal angle between two
walls
Setting out lines and 90 degrees and
other acute angles
Setting out ramps, slopes and calculating
falls
Drawing contour lines of a field survey
Transferring points through a building
Checking if two lines are parallel
Calculating intersection coordinate of
two lines
Using a programmable calculator for free
station or resection program
Using a Programmable calculator
Calculating coordinate of a point
Global Local coordinate transformation