Kansas City: Steering toward stability

The air in Kansas City is thick with the tang of engine oil and the roar of 70,000 fans. Relentless and seemingly unstoppable, the No. 6 Trimble Ford Mustang Dark Horse and its driver, Brad Keselowski, tear across the tarmac with speed that relies on precision built into the track itself. The speedway’s D-shaped design requires that drivers never lose sight of the track ahead, especially in the steep turns. That same certainty is shaping how the people of Kansas live and work.

Local solutions for a global event

A tide of fans will soon wash over Kansas City and its surrounding suburbs. This summer, the city will host several high-profile FIFA World Cup matches, along with tens of thousands of soccer fans from around the world. By empowering communities with AI-enhanced tools to plan and respond, Trimble is helping Kansas City turn variables into data points. Simulating every footstep, and anticipating every potential bottleneck, local leaders across the city and its surrounding areas are ready to welcome visitors to cheer on their favorite teams.

Empowering the next generation

Data is only half of the equation when ensuring predictability. It takes well-molded minds to understand how that data can impact communities across the state. In the Trimble Technology Lab at Kansas State University, the next generation of construction professionals is learning to bridge that gap. With high-precision workflows mastered before they set foot on a jobsite, they’re becoming the tech leaders that Kansas needs to build a more certain future for every resident.

Kansas City’s digital twin

From the cantilevered canopy of CPKC Stadium to the healing halls of Saint Luke’s, JE Dunn has over 100 years of experience shaping the Kansas City skyline. Now, by standardizing Trimble technology across their active jobsites and embracing a “build it twice” approach (once digitally and once physically), JE Dunn has replaced worksite uncertainty with total confidence. That digital foresight translates into real-world reliability for the stadiums, hospitals and homes that continue to shape the city’s future.

Predictability at every turn

When builders and new graduates work with total confidence, they remove the friction from Kansas’s evolution. Now, the people shaping the region ensure that every new landmark builds a sense of community, and that the relentless pace of these rapidly growing cities turns into a steady, reliable rhythm.

Add Trimble to your toolkit

Explore the specific solutions and workflows that enable initiatives across Kansas.

• Cost-effective city solutions
  Preparing for the world to show up on a city’s doorstep is no easy feat. With Trimble Unity Maintain, Kansas City ensures that its infrastructure remains ready and resilient and turns anxiety of the unknown back into anticipation of the event.

• Flawless field layouts
  Like JE Dunn, use a digital twin to bridge the gap between office designs and field reality for massive time and cost savings. Trimble FieldLink syncs your data to eliminate guesswork, ensuring every project is perfect the first time.

• Surveying the future
  From the campus of KSU to the build sites of JE Dunn there can be no doubt: data-driven decision-making ensures precision. Projects across Kansas trust total stations like the Trimble SX12 to streamline their workflows and improve their communities.