NEWS Kolida Contributes to New Macau University Campus Surveying instruments from Kolida have been used in building a new campus for the University of Macau, China, in the east of Hengqin Island, part of Zhuhai City. The construction project began in 2009 and will cover an area of 820,000 square metres. Now that construction of the main buildings and under-river tunnel have entered the final phase, the road and pipeline are the next targets. Guangzhou Municipal Engineering Limited Company has been contracted to carry out this heavy, urgent and high-accuracy work. After initially purchasing four sets of total stations, the company soon discovered that a more efficient solution was needed to meet the high-precision requirement and tight schedule, and hence added one set of the Kolida K9T RTK to its equipment. With a Pacific Crest BD970 mainboard inside, the K9T is very fast at satellite tracking and initialisation. Since the majority of the high-rise buildings on the new campus have already been completed, most of the stake-out work had to be conducted around them. Although the environment was challenging, the K9T delivered excellent and reliable performance by obtaining data in a matter of seconds. Furthermore, the onboard field software, Kolida Engineering Star, was also a powerful workmate. Thanks to its full range of functions including base map import, road design and point/line stake-out, it significantly speeded up the project progress, allowing what would have previously taken 10 days to be finished in just two days, and thus minimised the overall project cost. The new campus will be 20 times larger than the present one, and will be able to accommodate up to 10,000 students. An under- river tunnel will connect the old and new campuses. https://www.gim-international.com/content/news/kolida-contributes-to-new-macau-university-campus.