The bitter smell of hot brake pads hangs heavy over the Magic Mile, a level stretch of asphalt set against the pine-covered hills around it. For Chris Buescher and the No. 17 Trimble Ford Mustang Dark Horse, flat asphalt forces him to earn every bit of grip himself. He runs 301 laps in pursuit of a grand prize that includes a live 20-pound lobster. It's an apt award from a state with the motto “Live free or die.” While the “or die” part is a touch extreme for a jobsite, that intense spirit says everything about the lakeside volunteers, road builders and excavation crews across the Granite State who are rolling up their sleeves to get the work done their way.
A foundation for the future
In 2023, New Hampshire Housing projected the state would need 90,000 new homes by 2040. For Tom Gardocki’s five-person team at New Era Excavation, meeting that demand meant rethinking how a foundation gets dug. The conventional method puts one person in the machine and another on the ground checking grade, a process Gardocki knew was far too slow. Instead of waiting for someone else to step up, the “dirt ninja” spent three years testing Trimble technology on live jobs, hauling it site to site and moving his own survey gear into the cab until one person could handle layout and precision digging alone. By doing things his own way, he boosted his team’s output by 50%, and in the process turned ground-level efficiency into real momentum for regional development.
Road work that stays on track
Road work is hard to love while it’s happening. It’s loud, runs for months (or more!) and draws on limited public funding. Pat L'Heureux, a project manager at Severino Trucking Co., knows this better than anyone. When the company’s primary 3D designer left, L'Heureux decided to solve the problem using Trimble technology and learn it himself. In the process, he fundamentally changed how construction impacts the surrounding communities. Field crews now layer finished 3D designs directly over raw dirt on a site tablet. Jobs finish up to 50% faster to get traffic moving again, precision grading prevents costly rework so tax dollars go further and those living next to the work have a clear view of the final roadmap. Months of inevitable disruption turns into earned community trust.
Local water readings with global reach
From hundreds of miles in orbit, NASA satellites sweep across the globe to map the world’s freshwater supply. But satellite measurements only work if those readings can be verified on the ground. That’s why the UMass Trimble Tech Lab partnered with local residents through New Hampshire’s Volunteer Lake Assessment Program to put monitoring into local hands. Volunteers read shoreline gauges and text in what they see. Backed by Trimble technology to lock in exact elevations, those local readings supply NASA with the ground truth needed to reliably monitor millions of unmeasured lakes. Across the globe, that data replaces guesswork with clarity, proving that the tools to protect the world's water can end up in the hands of the people who depend on it.
Ingenuity at every turn
All it takes is someone stepping up to the plate. Without that choice, foundations get dug the hard way, site models sit unused, and lake levels go unmeasured. What sets these teams apart is the decision to own the outcome. Trimble provides the flexible tools, but local ingenuity does the heavy lifting. That “Live free” mindset drives New Hampshire forward and gives the people who work there Confidence at every turn™.
Add Trimble to your toolkit
Site surveying, start to finish
Like Tom Gardocki at New Era Excavation, take the design straight into the field with Trimble Siteworks and handle layout, grade checking, stakeout, progress checks and final as-builts from one system, on foot or from the cab.
See it before it's built
Like Pat L'Heureux at Severino Trucking, use Trimble SiteVision to place any 3D design in its true position in the real world, from buried utilities to buildings that don't exist yet, so anyone standing there understands the plan without reading a single sheet.Survey-grade positioning from your phone
Like the volunteers tracking 21 New Hampshire lakes, pair Trimble Catalyst with the DA2 receiver to turn a standard phone or tablet into a precise field data tool for asset inventories, utility mapping, inspections and environmental monitoring.
See how teams connect the field to the office and turn projections into outcomes they can predict.
