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New Mexico Department of Transportation Selects Autodesk Software for Road and Highway Design Projects

December 27, 2012 in Associate Membership, Land Surveying, Members

The New Mexico Department of Transportation used Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler software to generate 3D visualizations for the I-10 roadway rehabilitation project. Image courtesy of the New Mexico Department of Transportation.

New Mexico Department of Transportation Selects Autodesk Software for Road and Highway Design Projects

New Mexico Latest State DOT in U.S. to Transition to Autodesk BIM for Infrastructure Solutions

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), the leader in cloud-based design and engineering software, announced that the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) is the latest state DOT in the U.S. to expand their use of Autodesk software to include Autodesk Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions for road and highway design projects statewide.

“We are looking forward to implementing the Autodesk solutions,” said Alvin Dominguez, P.E., NMDOT Cabinet Secretary. “The New Mexico Department of Transportation expects to pay for the software within two years of full implementation through cost savings realized in the reduction of change orders. The use of 3D modeling capabilities will improve our public input on projects promoting positive customer relations and needed transparency throughout our project development process.”

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Survey Summit 2012, The Road Ahead … or Summit Plummet?

August 2, 2012 in Associate Membership, Business, Business Practices, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Members, Professional Land Surveyor Practice

Survey Summit Plummet I’ve just read that only an estimated 250 attended the joint endeavor between ESRI and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) in San Diego last month, billed as the ACSM Annual Conference.

Survey Summit or Summit Plummet?

250. That’s it! …. Survey Summit or Summit Plummet?

With less than 5 attendees from each state, on average, it’s hard to define the Survey Summit 2012 as anything remotely close to being successful.

The Road Ahead … Next Exit Please!

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Knowing Your Numbers-Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

October 9, 2011 in Associate Membership, Business, Business Practices, Continuing Education, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Premium Membership, Professional Land Surveyor Practice

Knowing Your Numbers-Project Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company

In earlier Premium Posts, I wrote Knowing Your Numbers-Business Metrics for Your Land Surveying Company, an article on which business metrics you can use to run your land surveying business, and Knowing Your Numbers-How To Measure Your Success, an article on the importance of developing your own set of metrics and benchmarks to accurately measure your success.

In this Premium Membership post I expand on that theme; specifically how to use Project Metrics for your land surveying company.

Your land surveying business, no doubt, collects at least two business and project metrics, being: Time and Employee. Every week you have a the metrics of your employees hours worked, what projects they’ve worked on, or time spent on non-project specific hours worked. Because this is the least data required to collect to pay your employees, this is often where project metrics collection ends in many land surveying firms.

With this minimal amount of collected project data, you simply do not know and understand enough about your land surveying projects and business to run your business.

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Topcon Announces RTP-300 for High-Speed Surface Profiling

January 18, 2011 in Associate Membership, Business, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Laser Scanning, Surveying Software, Topcon, Topcon

LIVERMORE, Calif. – January 17, 2011 – Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) new RTP-300 Real Time Profiler collects surface data at speeds up to 65 miles per hour (105 km/hr) and creates an exact model of the existing surface.

The RTP-300′s data collection system includes a Topcon GNSS dual-constellation satellite receiver system, three laser profilers, wheel encoder technology and a comprehensive computer data collection system.

Tony Vanneman, TPS construction product marketing manager, said, “The RTP-300 system can be quickly and easily installed onto any vehicle with a trailer hitch, making it a mobile surveying vehicle that generates a higher resolution topography map than conventional surveying methods in a fraction of the time and with superior accuracy.” In addition to producing high-resolution topography maps, the RTP-300 system is capable of producing industry standard reports such as PRI and IRI.

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Carlson Takeoff Site & Road Estimating Video

January 10, 2011 in Associate Membership, Business, Carlson, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Videos, Surveying Software, Technology Videos, Videos

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Topcon GPT-3200 Series of Total Stations for Enhanced Performance

January 5, 2011 in Associate Membership, Business, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, News, Topcon

Topcon GPT-3200 series of total stations for enhanced performance

LIVERMORE, Calif. – January 5, 2011 – Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) has released two new series of reflectorless total stations – the GPT-3200NW and GPT-3200N.

The GPT-3200NW series offers an array of new features that includes enhanced non-prism measurement performance, improved user interface, and increased onboard data collection capability. The series includes two, three, five and seven arc-second models: GPT-3202NW, GPT3203NW, GPT-3205NW and GPT-3207NW.

Denny Welch, senior vice president of the TPS Survey Business Unit, said, “Improvements have been made while maintaining field-proven durability and portability for the user. The industry-leading technologies of the new series will maximize work efficiency and maximize safety with a Class I/1M safe laser for distance measurement that allows safe use even in areas with heavy traffic.”

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Professional Land Surveyor News-Spectra Precision Introduces Additions to its Optical Survey Solutions and New Field Software Features

October 8, 2010 in Associate Membership, Business, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, News, Spectra Precision, Spectra Precision, Surveying Software

Professional Land Surveyor News

Professional Land Surveyor News-Spectra Precision Introduces Additions to its Optical Survey Solutions and New Field Software Features

COLOGNE, Germany, Oct. 5, 2010 — Spectra Precision introduced today several additions to the Spectra Precision® FOCUS® 30 line of optical survey solutions and new features for the Spectra Precision Survey Pro™ field software.

The announcement was made at INTERGEO 2010, the world’s largest conference on geodesy, geoinformatics and land management.

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