SURVEYING FOR ENGINEERING PROJECTS

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1 NEW JERSEY SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS presents A SEMINAR BY BILL BEARDSLEE, P.L.S., P.E., P.P. SURVEYING FOR ENGINEERING PROJECTS

2 Name Employer Location Total Employees Employees in Surveying Your Position What you do after work

3 The Surveyor is the eyes of the designer. The Engineer s ability to communicate the project requirements and the Surveyors ability to communicate what he sees will determine the success of the project.

4 Client/Designer What, Where, When, How Manager Staffing, Set standards, Quality Control Party Chief Gather & provide data in clear, concise form CAD Operator Translate data to final product in proper format

5 The Project Team Designer/Client * * Survey Project Manager * * Party Chief CAD Operator

6 Choose your weapons wisely!!! Surveying for Engineering Projects copyright 2010 by William E. Beardslee, P.L.S., P.E., P.P.

7 Don t be a slave to computer output! The third decimal place is for research, not engineering surveys. Accuracy is in the eyes of the beholder.

8 BECOME A KNIGHT IN THE ORDER OF MAGNITUDE

9 Clear and concise FIELD NOTES Whether electronic or manual Who, When, Where, What Why? - D I S C O V E R Y Separate out changes in setup Consistent use of abbreviations Built in checks

10 CONTROL Renewable and convertible Inter-visable under all conditions Outside limits of construction or supplemental lines Tied to appropriate datum may be many

11 STRINGING Use when the field notes must define the geometry of the subject Curb Edge Pavement Walls Fences Water Courses

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14 DATA FOR ROAD IMPROVEMENTS * * * * * * * * * * * *

15 DATA FOR ROAD IMPROVEMENTS Control Horizontal Alignment Vertical Alignment Cross Slope Curbing Striping Lighting and signalization Driveways Major Trees Utilities Markout Utility poles with numbers Overhead Wires Obvious conditions of concern S P E E D L I M I T

16 ORIENTATION and STATIONING Plan - North up or Front of Project down Stationing Left to right or Start of Road into site

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22 ORIENTATION and STATIONING 1. North 60 degrees either side of vertical 3. NO Station each street with different series Drainage, Sewer 4. Left to Right stationing

23 CONSTRUCTION LAYOUT RISK - REWARD Pre-construction meeting Site Super, Contractors, Survey Manager, Party Chiefs Chain of command for design changes Who, What, When, Where, Why Cataloging of all extra work All requests in writing Forms for on site requests

24 CONSTRUCTION LAYOUT Double check control RISK - REWARD Double check grade sheets Never by person who did it Order of Magnitude Billing

25 SUMMARY Communicate to all members of the team Install internal cross checks Control order of magnitude Be consistent in all terminology and procedures Bill appropriately and quickly

26 Seminars and in-house staff instruction available through The Beardslee Group William E. Beardslee, PLS, PE, PP Communication & Education Consultant 837 Seven Lakes North, West End, North Carolina Cell Surveying for Engineering Projects copyright 2010 by William E. Beardslee, P.L.S., P.E., P.P.