通过测量技术建立更美好的未来

作者：Renata Barradas Gutiérrez

房屋，建筑物，学校，桥梁，道路和任何基础设施不仅在支持它们的材料和结构中，而且在建造它们的人们的工作和知识中。资格和熟练的劳动不仅对建筑业，而且对于社会和国家的经济福祉而言，从未如此重要。手工艺贸易学校，职业学校和学员计划可以为建筑项目和建设建筑公司提供宝贵的动手和工作经验。

这Rural Development Organisation (RDO), founded in 2012 and established in Tanzania, is aware of the life-changing potential of learning a new trade. RDO, in partnership with Eine Welt Gruppe Schlins - Röns, works to improve the long-term living conditions of the people in the regions of Mdabulo and Kilolo, in the highlands of Tanzania, through diverse programs based on the principles of sustainability and knowledge transfer. RDO is opening opportunities to young men and women through vocational training and building projects – undertakings where Leica Geosystems equipment has proved useful.

激光和级别的变革力

For young people in the region, mainly living from subsistence farming, RDO training centre is a hub of opportunities to expand their prospects by接受有关各种工艺交易和可持续农业实践的培训。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，” explained Johannes Rauch, project manager at Eine Welt Gruppe Schlins - Röns.

To支持RDO的任务，Leica Geosystems捐赠了Leica NA730 automatic level, aLeica Rugby 800系列旋转激光和组织的距离计。从那时起，设备一直是支持RDO项目的关键。

“我们经常频繁地使用Leica Geosystems设备。这使我们的工作变得更加容易。在建筑工艺人员的培训中，这些设备会大大提高培训的价值和现代性，”劳奇说。

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.

在Mdabulo的RDO课程中心，通过动手社区项目，学生使用自动级别，旋转激光和距离计来了解建筑和获取技能的基础。学生学习使用橄榄球系列激光器进行不同的应用程序，包括土地级别，成绩检查，斜坡领带，垂直对齐模板和隔离墙。同样，使用NA730自动水平，学习者了解如何测量距离，设置标准基准线，定义高度差异并读取高度。

“培训是通过建筑工匠学校的常规课程进行的。现在，使用激光和电平设备牢固地固定在课程中。每年，大约有40名学生接受激光，水平和距离仪表的培训，”said Rauch.

提供饮用水，建造更好的学校

Leica Geosystems设备还用于该地区基础设施的建设，包括学校，建筑物和供水厂。截至目前，已经建立了三个供水混凝土罐，目前正在两个学校建造四座学校建筑物。

“ Leica Geosystems设备在建造我们的项目建筑物中特别有用，”said Rauch.

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.

Surveying the construction site of an elevated tank in the village Isele, Tanzania, to provide water supply.

在具有深山谷和高度的丘陵地形上进行计划，挖掘和建造供水基础设施并不是一件容易的事。为了正确地，NA730自动级别用于长距离的长距离3.5 to 4 kilometres to measure foundationsand precisely plan pipe-laying terraces in connection with gravity pipelines.

“Previously, the foundations were done with a slat and spirit level or with a cord spirit level. Deviations up to 15 centimetres at distances up to 15 metres were the rule,”said Rauch.“指某东西的用途the levelling device greatly simplified planning and made it safer。此外，我们已经成功地提高了准确性。”

赋予人们权力

授权人他们最大的g和想法ood – 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.