通过测量技术建立更美好的未来

Author:Renata Barradas Gutiérrez

Houses, buildings, schools, bridges, roads and any infrastructure you can think of stand not only in the material and structure that support them but in the work and know-how of the people who built them. Qualified and skilled labour has never been more vital for not only the construction industry but for the economical well-being of societies and countries. Craft trade schools, vocational schools and trainee programs can provide the valuable hands-on and work experience needed for construction projects and building construction companies.

这Rural Development Organisation (RDO)，成立于2012年并在坦桑尼亚成立，意识到学习新贸易的改变潜力。RDO与Eine Welt Gruppe Schlins合作 - Röns，致力于改善坦桑尼亚高地Mdabulo和Kilolo地区人民的长期生活条件，通过可持续性和知识转移原则的各种计划，。RDO通过职业培训和建筑项目为年轻男女开放机会 - 列卡地理系统设备被证明有用的事业。

激光和级别的变革力

对于该地区的年轻人，主要是从生存农业生活的年轻人，RDO培训中心是扩大前景的机会receiving training on diverse craft trades and sustainable agricultural practices。RDO的受益人通常来自农业持有和完成强制性教育，但无法继续学习。RDO在专业领域提供的培训包括实践和理论课程，并​​通过州考试完成。

“手工艺交易在这里没有传统，这就是为什么工艺训练场所很少的原因，而且这种培训的基础设施通常非常不良。此外，只有少数中学，只有一小部分人口负担得起，” Eine Welt Gruppe Schlins的项目经理Johannes Rauch解释说。

到support the mission of RDO，Leica Geosystems捐赠了Leica NA730自动水平, aLeica Rugby 800系列rotating laser and a distance metre to the organisation. Since then, the equipment has been key to support RDO projects.

“我们经常使用徕卡呈设备and very often. This has made our work much easier. In the training for building craftsmen, these devices increase the value and the modernity of the training very much,”stated Rauch.

RDO - Centre in Mdabulo – A multi-purpose rammed-earth building built together with graduates and pupils of the RDO - craftsmen school established. The architecture project was provided by ETH Zurich students.

At RDO’s course centre in Mdabulo and through hands-on community projects, students learn the basics of construction and acquire skills using the automatic level, rotating laser and distance metre. Students learn to use the Rugby Series laser for different applications including, land levelling, grade checking, tie in slopes, vertically align formwork, and set out walls. Likewise, using theNA730 automatic level, learners understand how to measure distances, set as-sign datum lines, define height differences and read heights.

“这training takes place through regular lessons at the building craftsmen's school. The use of laser and level equipment is now firmly anchored in the curriculum. Every year, about 40 students are trained in the use of lasers, levels and distance metres,”劳赫说。

Delivering drinking water, building better schools

徕卡呈设备也用于欺诈struction of the region’s infrastructure, including schools, buildings and water supply works. As of today, three water supply concrete tanks have been erected and four school buildings at two school locations are currently being built.

“Leica Geosystemsequipment is particularly useful in the construction of our project buildings, such as school buildings, student hostels, craft workshops, administration buildings, agricultural stables, teaching kitchens, teacher's accommodation, water tank construction, pump houses and field surveying for water pipes,”劳赫说。

A key programme of RDO is the construction and management of drinking water facilities in the villages. Geared with Leica Geosystems equipment, RDO and Vorarlberg experts together with the villagers, dug water pipes from the spring catchments into the villages, wells and founded water cooperatives.

调查坦桑尼亚Isele村高架坦克的建筑工地，以提供供水。

Planning, digging and building a water supply infrastructure in a hilly terrain with deep valleys and heights is not an easy task. To do it right, the NA730 automatic level is used over long distances of up to3.5至4公里以衡量基础and precisely plan pipe-laying terraces in connection with gravity pipelines.

“以前，基金会是按照板条和精神水平或绳索精神水平完成的。距离最多15厘米的偏差是最多15米的规则，”劳赫说。“指某东西的用途the levelling device greatly simplified planning and made it safer。Also, we have succeeded in significantly improving the accuracy.”

Empowering people

Empowering people and ideas to do their greatest good – this is the ultimate purpose behind Hexagon’s technology solutions. In this sense, RDO is leveraging construction tools in Tanzanian communities to deliver access to clean water, provide the structures so children attend school, and prepare a generation of young individuals with a trade and skills to face current and future challenges. Access to measuring and positioning technology has the transformative power not only to build the world around us but provides skilled labour the means to earn a livelihood.