Course Catalogue

LJMU Partner Taught

To introduce methods of infrastructure route planning. To introduce highway geometry, design & construction. To introduce geodetic and satellite surveying. To demonstrate how total stations and GNSS receivers, can capture data for use in software packages to produce contoured plans and sections. To develop practical surveying skills

Outline Syllabus:Evaluation of infrastructure route choices. Basic highway alignment design. Orientation: The use of the Reference Object (RO) and orientation to the National Grid system of the Ordnance Survey and other coordinate systems. Standard maps and plans, scales and symbols. Safety and Risk Assessment in surveying and construction operations. Horizontal Control: Set up, use and adjustment of the theodolite and Total Station. Introduction to Global Navigational Satellite Systems. Setting out of highways works: Field positioning of points and lines using the Total Station. Applications: Production of site drawings. Orientation and Position: Resection and intersection techniques. Total stations: Demonstrations of the field measurements and coding systems available with total stations and GNSS receivers and their use with a computer software package.

Additional Information:Students will develop their understanding of, and competence in using, land surveying techniques. They will extend their understanding to be able to apply these techniques to highway design.