Welcome to Layout Solutions LLC

Layout Solutions provides personnel and technology to assist in layout efforts of nearly every construction trade, environment, and phase. From single trades doing underground work, to full General Contractor support, our business is to save time and profits lost on every project. 

Examples of services that can be provided:

• Simple layout - provide the file or drawing of what you want laid out  and a few control points (known locations that can be dimensioned on a drawing), 

• Coordinated layout - same as above, but for more than one trade at a time. This includes assistance with coordination and scheduling efforts of multiple trades to provide timely layout.

• As built locations - Collection of data inside the building foot print that can be reviewed, or simply labeled and dimensioned over an existing drawing

• Control Management - Once the initial property and/or building corners are set, Layout Solutions can assist owners, and general contractors in maintaining the over all accuracy of the project by routine visits to maintain things like batter boards used by concrete companies during underground work, control lines inside a building, and elevation benchmarks.

• Program development - Contractors wishing to enter the world of using a Robotic Total Station regularly with a full time team member can use Layout Solutions to consult and develop a program. 7+ years of experience of trial and error, and building two programs from the ground up can benefit your company by providing a streamlined approach into the realities of using Robotic Total Stations.

Construction Layout Solutions uses Robotic Total Station technology to facilitate our effort to assist in construction. Robotic Total Stations need two or more known locations that relate to the layout required, called control points in general terms. Once these control points are established, layout can be performed by as a few as one person, with an accuracy of up to 1/16th of an inch. Initial establishment of control points is critical to overall accuracy of a project. Establishment of our own control points is possible after a brief conversation, or an on-site visit, to establish how the project will be controlled.

Construction sites typically contract a Licensed Surveyor to establish boundaries of the property that a job site will build on. Then layout of the project then typically moves to more traditional methods. These can include tape measures, string lines, transits, builders levels, and rotating laser levels. Robotic total station cannot, and should not, replace all of these methods. It can, however, supplement every method listed above. 

With that in mind, most companies will balk at the cost of the equipment and, more importantly, the cost of keeping a trained individual on the payroll year round. Additionally, the support structure to support using a Robotic Total Station can get costly. Layout Solutions can provide the same services for a daily rate, usually at a lower cost than building an in-house program from scratch.