Author: Amerisurv-Editor

Here is a pop quiz on your Y2K preparedness: Have you installed that new generator yet? How is your bottled water cache coming…

Much has been written about the advantages of Qualifications-Based Selection (QBS) for professional services. The Brooks Act, passed by Congress in 1972, prohibited…

Let me state for the record that I am, and have been for some time, on the fence with respect to whether a…

Uncalled-for monuments are the bane of retracement surveyors everywhere. "Who placed this here and what did they know that I don’t?" The fact…

In a fee dispute a few years ago, an Alabama appeals court ruled that the responsible surveyor had not exercised appropriate supervision during…

The debate rages on over whether to require continuing education for surveyors. Curiously, I have never heard anyone deriding continuing education itself. Perhaps…

Traditionally, the responsibility of discovering written evidence prescribing the location of property lines has fallen to the surveyor. Curiously, the ALTA/ACSM Land Title…

Subconsciously, we know better. But somehow we have been persuaded to believe that ethics can preclude incompetent practice before it is attempted. The…

There can be no question but that monuments reflect society’s interest in the preservation and stability of land boundaries. Although surveyors rarely argue…

In publications, writers inevitably express opinions that offend some readers. Occasionally we receive angry letters responding to one aspect or another of an…