Users can find floor flatness and levelness mistakes in near real time from laser scan data and easily visualize high and low areas with elevation and deviation heat maps, contours and grids.

Updated software generates floor flatness and levelness figures from laser scan data, and visualizes wet or hardening concrete slabs' high or low areas with elevation or deviation heatmaps, contours and grids.

But on-site evaluations like floor flatness can also be very advantageous.

"In some cases floor flatness has to be within seven micron.

* Floor flatness: < 4mm/m and min thickness of 500 mm (no antistatic covering).

From the outset, it is important to realise that floor flatness and floor level are two different things and their respective effects on the operation of a truck are totally different.

Within TR34 there are two sections on floor flatness: The first is for free movement areas typically found in warehouses with wide aisle racking systems.

"Ride-on trowels aid the contractor by helping them obtain much flatter floors with improved F-numbers (the measure of floor flatness)," he said.

Floor flatness, forklift mast sway, and rack system alignment are among the critical interfaces to control.

The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, International Masonry Institute, and Tile Contractors Association of America have endorsed the American Society for Concrete Contractors Position Statement on Floor Flatness Tolerances, joining supporters Flooring Contractors Association and National Wood Flooring Association.