Courtney, a King Among Cornishmen

I have known, followed and documented Courtney King’s business expansion for many years now, having written at least two articles in Earthmovers and various posts on the blog and our social media platforms, so I was even more delighted to see my great friend and industry colleague Peter Haddock pay him a visit recently to produce another of his legendary video interviews.

As part of Peter’s ‘South West Connected Tour’ he paid a visit to Courtney King who is a very happy Leica Geosystems 3D machine control customer, and even more impressed by the support he receives from One Point Survey.

Peter met Courtney on what is the companies largest project to date in the popular tourist destination of Newquay in Cornwall.

The works involves the construction of a brand-new road which will form an access to another major housing development in the area in due course. The job involves levelling and compaction of a vast amount of locally quarried and recycled material extracted from the vast China Clay pits locally.

Talking about the project Courtney said, "There is no room for error on a job like this as on this section in particular, we have to build up the road base to meet a new bridge. "So, it's a project we could only deliver by working to a model using 3D machine control on our Doosan DX225LC-7 excavator and Caterpillar D5K2 dozer." He added: "Since adopting the Leica MC1 system, we have had a lot of help from the One Point Survey team getting used to how it works. "This has involved training for the whole team, including myself, the operators and our support engineer.

We have even involved the client in the process, which has been important to the management of the job. "They now have direct access to the model and can see our 'as dug and dozed' progress each day, which is a great management tool.

"And if any changes to the model are needed, these can now be sent straight to the machine over the GPS network by our engineer, who doesn't even need to be onsite. "It has literally changed how we work, and I have already added Leica onto two of our smaller excavators used mainly on our house building projects”.

Having been a plant operator for many years before starting his own business, Courtney is one of those people who is really passionate about the industry. And it's great to learn how he continues investing in his business to deliver complex and challenging projects in the region.

Checkout Peter’s Content with Media video below.