4th Annual Conference on 3D LASER SCANNING • DYNAMIC SURVEY • LIDAR • DIMENSIONAL CONTROL
- Validate new work processes and technologies to limit construction growth, compress schedules and improve safety
- Learn about project-hardened technologies that enable modular construction and improve off-site fabrication
- Learn how engineering-grade dimension and position data can be integrated with CAD, BIM and geomatics for improved asset management
- Discover best practices from the best surveyors, dimensional control experts and industrial measurement service providers
- Multiple conference tracks
- Dynamic Survey/LIDAR
- Construction
- Asset Management
- Process, Power, Offshore/Marine
- Geotechnical, Mining, Tunneling
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Historic Preservation
- Forensic
- Data Analysis
- See the newest 3D laser scanning hardware and post-processing software
WHO ATTENDS?
Project managers, engineering leads, construction managers, survey heads, asset managers, discipline leads and project control managers...
...from surveying, civil infrastructure, process manufacturing, fossil and nuclear power, transportation, offshore construction, automotive, aerospace and other discrete manufacturing, mining and resource management, LIDAR service providers, shipbuilding, defense and security organizations.
WHY ATTEND?
SPAR 2007 serves up fresh ideas from the smartest, most experienced people we can find on how to apply surveying, dimensional control and position measurement technology to the design, construction and operations of capital assets. Conference topics range from making the business case for using new technologies such as laser scanning, to integrating laser scanning, total station, GPS/RTK and airborne LIDAR data with design, fabrication, construction and operations databases. We also have 20 of the world's best suppliers of hardware, software and services who send their top technical and business people. These suppliers recognize that SPAR 2007 attendees take the good ideas they find and validate at the conference, and drive them forward in their own organizations. We aim to help design leads, project managers, surveyors, construction managers, maintenance managers and others who commit their careers to increasing their organizations' productivity and project execution competence.
New at SPAR 2007 is a construction track – we see more and more cases where optical measurement helps with both brownfield and greenfield projects. Modular construction, dimensional control of fabricated items, integration of airborne LIDAR with GPS/RTK with conventional survey, and intelligent application of 3D visualization are yielding impressive results in an industry well known for its reluctance to change.
We've also added a track on dynamic survey – capturing data from a moving platform. SPAR 2007 features presentations on applications of airborne LIDAR to private- and public-sector construction projects as well as presentations on new technologies that allow capture from helicopters, boats, wheeled vehicles and high-speed rail systems.
Also new are expanded tracks on forensic and security applications as well as historic preservation.
SPAR 2007 attendees come to upgrade their skills and to learn from the very best practitioners about the best ways to address the technical challenges found both in the field and in the office. Best practice is a moving target – the technology for data capture, registration, and integration with CAD and other engineering and asset management systems and visualization is changing quickly. The conference program is designed to allow plenty of question-and-answer time and one-on-one discussions.
Finally, attendees at SPAR 2007 can compare the newest technology from all the world's leading suppliers of 3D laser scanning solutions. SPAR 2007 saves attendees weeks of time otherwise required to track down the top technical people who are inventing and developing these new technologies.
Fresh technologies and work processes for solving engineering, construction and operations challenges – that's SPAR 2007.
Conference Take-Aways – Learn how to:
- Write scope documents to get the deliverables you want on upcoming scanning projects
- Capture all collateral costs to avoid budget-busters on scanning projects
- Assess which of your CAD suppliers support point cloud data integration and how they will support you
- Decide what capabilities are needed in-house for successful project execution and what is best sourced to third-party service providers
- Judge the competence of service providers
- Get your IT department's support for storing and managing point cloud data
- Use advanced laser scanning techniques to reduce the cost of survey work currently executed with manual methods and older technology. Learn when to stay with traditional methods
- Get more value from previously purchased laser scanning hardware and software by refining survey, design, fabrication and construction work processes and improving post-processing efficiency
- Drive rework costs and construction growth to below 1% from current 5% or greater levels on revamp and modification projects
- Reduce project schedule and limit downside exposure to schedule change and scope creep
- Improve dimensional control for new construction and revamp projects
- Improve safety of survey operations by removing personnel from harm's way through remote data capture
- Minimize facility outage and shutdown time with improved construction sequencing and planning visualization
- Improve accountability of engineering, fabrication and construction
- Minimize disruption and inconvenience to the public for road, bridge and tunnel projects
- Understand and assess the capabilities of the world's leading suppliers of terrestrial laser scanning software and hardware to support your project execution processes
SPAR 2007 is the fourth annual Spar Point Research conference focused on advanced dimensional control work processes and 3D laser scanning technologies. SPAR 2006 attendance topped 425 from 20 countries.
