HEADS^® Site ^TM

The versatile site design software for industrial plants and townships

Supported Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows XP

HEADS Site software from TechSOFT Engineering Services (I) Pvt. Ltd. Primarily for the engineering applications in Town Planning projects which is a large investment sector in the industry of developing countries and also applicable for the improvement and extension of existing Townships in developed countries.

HEADS Site handles Topographical and Spatial Survey Data Processing effectively for most economic Site Levelling and Grading which is the primary job for Land Development. The developed land is used for platforms for the construction of Housing Projects, Industrial Plant Projects, Extension of Urban Areas etc. These involves tasks like Levelling, Grading, Planning of Platforms for Constructions of structures, Site for Stadium, Hospital, Parks, Public Utilities, Roads, Road Junctions, Swimming Pools, Electrical Sub Stations, Rail Stations, Airstrips, Truck Lay Byes, Bus bays, Parking Lots, Water Distribution System, Drainage, Landscaped areas etc.

All these are handled by designing suitable Ground Sites in the simplest and best ways in HEADS Site. The various Planning, setting out and Construction Drawings, Estimation of Earthwork for Cut & Fill are generated with highest possible level of accuracy and with sufficient information details. HEADS Site is the most complete and best software in the international market place to design sites most effectively.

In HEADS Site, the USP lies in its simplicity for applications which are very complex processes and such simplicity is hardly available in other market available products.

Site Levelling & Grading

For any site development project the Levelling Grading is the next job for preparing construction platforms at various elevations and maintaining desired slopes in 3 Dimensional perspectives. The estimation of Earthwork in Cut & Fill is computed accurately by software HEADS Site in well formatted Tabular format following Stations defined along the reference Line. Along with the Digital Terrain Model (DTM) it generates Contours, Elevations on Grids, 3D Surface etc. and all as CAD Drawings. The built-in CAD engine is ighly powerful with complete drafting and editing facilities. The drawings are compatible to AutoCAD and all other popular CAD softwares.

Technically HEADS Site software is based on String modeling technique and is today’s established name in offering the users all the facilities essential for Town planning and Site development. It accepts User’s Design Data in the form of Text Data and Site Survey Data from Total Station or Auto Level in the form of GENIO, TXT or 3D DXF Drawing file. It offers the facility to use commonly formatted data structures to create automatic modeling and Analysis. It generates Detail Reports and Drawings to display visual presentation and finally to create CAD construction drawings.

HEADS Site has its own powerful CAD engine and is best appreciated for its Features, Completeness, Versatility, Sophisticated Production, Speed of Processing, Simplicity and Exchangeability of Input and Output with other commonly used CAD software.

HEADS Site handle various engineering applications in a Township or Industrial Plant development project and generates results which helps project authorities to plan for the development most practicably and take appropriate decisions from the techno-economic viability of the project. The various planning processes are assisted by the applications of HEADS Site in the ways described below:

Topographical Survey

HEADS Site is complete in respect of Survey facilities, it processes Survey data available from Total Station, Auto Level, GPS, Compass Survey and develops Ground Model, Digital Terrain Model (DTM) by Delauney Triangulation, Ground Contours at user given primary & secondary intervals, 3D Surface with rendering, Ground Long and Cross Sections, Digital Mapping, Traversing and closing error correction by Bowditch, Transit & Close Link methods, EDM Survey, Coordinate Transformation from WGS84 to Lambert Conformal Conic Projection (Long Lat to East North) and the reverse with Spheroid Everest 1956. The Surveyed Ground is compared with the Proposed Levelled Ground and the Earthwork is estimated in terms of Cut & Fill.

The Survey reference pillars can be installed by obtaining Traverse coordinates with closing error distribution either by Bowditch or Transit or Closed Link method.

The Digital mapping facility enables the users to prepare Survey base Plan drawings over Google Pictures using the CAD engine of HEADS Site.

Built up Area Planning

Site design by HEADS Site deals primarily with the design and management of public space (i.e. the 'public environment', 'public realm' or 'public domain'), and the way public places are experienced and used. Public space includes the totality of spaces used freely on a day-to-day basis by the general public, such as streets, plazas, parks, medical centres, stadiums, auditoriums, education centres, commercial areas, housing areas and other public infrastructure. Some aspects of privately owned spaces, such as building facades or domestic gardens, also contribute to public space and are therefore also considered by Urban design theory.

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Transport Planning & Design of Road layouts

In the United Kingdom transport planning has traditionally been a branch of civil engineering. In the 1950s and 1960s it was generally believed that the motor car was an important element in the future of transport as economic growth spurred on car ownership figures. The role of the transport planner was to match motorway and rural road capacity against the demands of economic growth. Urban areas would need to be redesigned for the motor vehicle or else impose traffic containment and demand management to mitigate congestion and environmental impacts. These policies were popularised in a 1963 government publication, Traffic in Towns. The contemporary Report on congestion pricing was initially promoted to manage demand but was deemed politically unacceptable. In more recent times this approach has been caricatured as "predict and provide" – to predict future transport demand and provide the network for it, usually by building more roads.

Transportation planning in the United States is in the midst of a shift similar to that taking place in the United Kingdom, away from the singular goal of moving vehicular traffic and towards an approach that takes into consideration the communities and lands which streets, roads, and highways pass through ("the context"). This new approach, known as Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS), seeks to balance the need to move vehicles efficiently and safely with other desirable outcomes, including historic preservation, environmental sustainability, and the creation of vital public spaces.

HEADS Site has the power of versatile road engineering software HEADS and is the best solution for planning the road transport system for the project incorporating Junctions, intersections, Grade separated interchanges, Services roads, Flyovers, ROBs etc.

Drainage Planning

Surface drainage by open drains and subsurface drainage by buried pipes are probably the most comprehensively studied subject in land drainage. The relationships between the variables and parameters are well established. The remaining design problems are mostly due to the many other interactions between the soil and the system affecting the choice of materials, methods of installation etc.

Water Supply Distribution Network Planning

A safe supply of potable water is the basic necessity of mankind in the industrialized society, therefore water supply systems are the most important public utility. A colossal amount of money is spent every year around the world for providing or upgrading drinking water facilities. The major share of capital investment in a water supply system goes to the water conveyance and water distribution network. Nearly 80% to 85% of the cost of a water supply project is used in the distribution system; therefore, using rational methods for designing a water distribution system will result in considerable savings.

The water supply infrastructure varies in its complexity from a simple, rural town gravity system to a computerized, remote-controlled, multisource system of a large city; however, the aim and objective of all the water systems are to supply safe water at the cheapest cost. These systems are designed based on least-cost and enhanced reliability considerations.

In general, water distribution systems can be divided into four main components: (1) water sources and intake works, (2) treatment works and storage, (3) transmission mains, and (4) distribution network. The common sources for the untreated or raw water are surface water sources such as rivers, lakes, springs, and man-made reservoirs.

The program DISNET is structured in such a way that it not only enables engineers to design water supply systems in simplest and fastest way but also enables them to design functionally efficient and least-cost systems. It is intended that students, professional engineers, and researchers will benefit from the pipe network analysis and design done by using DISNET. We hope, DISNET will turn out to be the most useful tool for the water supply engineers as some of the fine aspects of pipe network optimization are considered.

DISNET is available as stand alone software or in association with the software HEADS Site to the users for the convenience of the procurement.

The Output is produced as Text Report file and also as CAD Drawing file describing Node wise description for Elevation and available Pressure Head. It also informs about the Pipe number wise Diameter and Discharge for all the pipe in the network. DISNET requires Total Station Survey data of the project site in 3D as Text or GEN format or as CAD drawing. The step wise guide is given in Help menu to enable the user to master the operations in a straight forward way by processing the Tutorial data collected from real life project.