Leica iCON build: Foundations
Digital construction apps for positioning and pouring concrete piles and slabs for building foundations
As a concrete contractor, your foundation work is critical to the success of any building construction project. However, relying only on manual methods doesn’t allow you to optimise your expert workflow. With Leica iCON’s digital construction tools, bring productivity and accuracy to the next level within the processes you already use, finishing work faster with less rework and material waste. iCON build workflows for building foundations enable you to layout and pour piles and slabs quicker and more accurately, complete easy checks to ensure confidence along the way, and create reports to prove your results.
First-time experience using the Leica AP20 AutoPole
Experience the Leica AP20 AutoPole in action with Fabian, a layout specialist from the Swiss building construction company Gautschi. Our video showcases how he effectively utilises the AP20 and highlights its advantageous features that help simplify construction workflows. Watch the video to gain insights from Fabian and witness the AP20's capabilities.
Digitally define the points you need
When digital drawings don’t include or make it hard to find the points you need, the Sketching app provides digital construction tools to adapt CAD designs to your work, allowing you to create points, lines, arcs, and circles in seconds. Additionally, fix incomplete data, immediately respond to site changes, and quickly input elements to speed time to layout and position with confidence.
Pour the right amount in the right place
Ensuring you pour the right amount of concrete in the right place is crucial for foundation work, but accuracy is difficult with string lines and offset grid lines laid out on busy sites. The Layout Points app allows you to shift from these imprecise manual methods to faster digital point navigation using visual guidance with colour codes that indicate point quality and provide assurance. Additionally, easily layout offsets, anchor bolt patterns, and check the finished foundation elevation - all while integrated tolerance checks increase precision. With the Layout Lines app, layout control lines, parallels, perpendiculars or arcs and apply offsets, allowing you to align columns, and define slab edges and boundaries quickly and easily.
Quickly check before and after you pour
Checking work throughout the foundation pouring process is crucial for minimising rework and material waste. With the Checks app, ensure the accuracy of areas, perimeters, and angles in 2D and 3D before you pour. Compute the amount of concrete you’ll need with the box volume feature, making more exact estimates for less waste and lower costs. After pouring concrete, check deviations against the design with the point to line function and quickly access all your results on the easy-to-read info panel.
Prove and report layout accuracy
Provide a clear record of the work you’ve done and the layout accuracy you achieved with the Report and Export functionalities. Show how well the reality represents the design, export as-laid and as-built positions to design teams for updates, and minimise rework for the trades coming after - all as an easy and integrated extension to your building foundation workflow.
Minimise rework to achieve sustainability goals and ensure your construction project success
Discover how reduce rework with the Leica iCON portfolio
Leica iCON iCR70
Mid-range construction robotic total station for general layout applications.
- Layout lines for footings, pits, and foundations for excavation
- 80% increase in productivity over other conventional layout practices
- 4-button keyboard for simple operation
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Leica iCON iCR80
The ultimate construction total station to maximise efficiency on site.
- Ability to layout complex designs
- Especially useful in congested sites with many distractions
- Layout points on blinding layer, such as pipe insert or cut-outs before pouring concrete
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Leica AP20 AutoPole
A revolutionary smart system for Leica robotic total stations.
- Removes the last analogue step in the robotic total station workflow - the manual pole
- Faster and more reliable layout with fewer mistakes
- Delivers a true digital construction workflow using TargetID, PoleHeight, and Tilt Compensation features
Leica iCON iCB70
Most efficient manual total station for construction with integrated 4G modem.
- Take the no-tapes and no-strings approach to construction measurements
- Layout points and lines quickly and accurately, even on complex structures
- Perform verticality checks on formwork and structures
Leica iCON iCB50
Entry level manual total station for construction for increased productivity.
- Take the no-tapes and no-strings approach to construction measurements
- Layout complex structures easily
- Complete fast and accurate as-built measurements
- 5 inch colour touch screen and full numeric keyboard
Leica iCON gps 70 T
Speed up – anytime, anywhere with the iCON gps 70 Smart Antenna.
- Permanent tilt compensation and resistance to magnetic interferences
- No need to hold the pole vertical and level the bubble when measuring
- Rugged aluminium housing and IP66 / IP68 protection for the harshest site conditions
Leica iCON gps 160
The Smart Antenna that balances functionality, flexibility and ROI in a way no one else can!
- Flexibility and ability to support a variety of daily building site tasks
- A large display with clear navigation for quick and easy setup, without additional hardware
- Allows measuring and stakeout with a tilted pole
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Leica iCON gps 30
Designed to facilitate the shift from traditional measurement methods to modern digital.
- The ultimate entry-level antenna for digital construction workflows
- An exceptionally lightweight and compact GNSS RTK rover, built with the operator in mind
- The highest level of position reliability in its class
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Leica iCON CC200
A high-durability controller for the most demanding on-site requirements.
- The ideal solution for all on-site positioning and measuring tasks, including on-machine applications
- Ready to withstand even the toughest site conditions, featuring ‘rain’ and ‘glove’ mode
- Large 10’’ screen with more map visibility
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Leica iCON CC180
A well-rounded and compact controller for all construction tasks.
- Display with a comprehensive work view for increased productivity
- Intel 12th Generation processor to swiftly load and process large and complex designs swiftly
- Finger/rain, glove or stylus operation modes
- Excellent connectivity with up to 500 m when operating with a Leica iCON total station
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Leica iCON CC170
Ideal for customers seeking a versatile, lightweight and small-sized field controller.
- Full-LTE support and one modem for all regions
- Optional Long-range Bluetooth® allowing connectivity and operation up to 600 m away from the total station
- Hot-swappable batteries, eliminating the need to stop and save your work or quit applications to change the battery
Sustainable and speedy: How Prex Co. achieves their construction goals
The Leica iCR70 robotic total station and Leica iCON build software support Prex Co. on their mission to build zero emission houses in Japan.
The Leica iCR70 robotic total station and Leica iCON build software support Prex Co. on their mission to build zero emission houses in Japan.
Increasing efficiency in Building Construction with Leica iCON Robotic Total Stations
As building construction projects become more challenging, more advanced solutions are needed that bring smarter workflows and automation to overcome the productivity gap on site.
As building construction projects become more challenging, more advanced solutions are needed that bring smarter workflows and automation to overcome the productivity gap on site.
Concrete contractor saves time and money by implementing digital layout
Read how Walrite was able to achieve its return on investment within two months of using the robotic total station.
Read how Walrite was able to achieve its return on investment within two months of using the robotic total station.
