Elevating Construction Surveyors: A Step by Step Guide for Remarkable Surveying in Construction (The Art of the Builder) Paperback – March 31, 2022

To be a great surveyor you must learn to merge the application ofstate of the art procedure and technology with the time testedback-to-basic fundamentals of survey and layout. Concepts likechaining, three-wire-leveling, averaging angles and traversingcontrol are just as applicable today as they have always been.Knowing how to use a total station and data collector does notmake a Surveyor. Surveyors who are true builders positionstructures and record locational data with both accuracy andprecision, know the math, the tech, the methods, current practices.builder fundamentals and the applications of field engineering.The construction and civil industries have become flooded withlayout technicians who will show up on-site with a robotic totalstation and a tablet, spray out points and leave under the guise ofsurveying. Was control verified? Were site datums compared withthe plan set? Were elevations tied together and adjusted with alevel loop? Are there enough benchmarks and references to gridline for the subsequent builder to follow along seamlessly? Was thetask tolerance clear? Was the work double-checked to ensure thatit was placed correctly? All fair questions, many of which are beingwaved aside by the very people performing layout on our projects.By following the steps laid out in this book, the answer to each ofthe crucial questions above will be an enthusiastic YES!Come with us as we merge the past and the present to create awell-rounded construction survevor or 'Builder' who can controlany task or scope in the construction process. Read more