Surveyors may be at the ground floor of every built environment, but their recognition is buried deep. The lack of awareness, many surveyors…
Author: Mary Jo Wagner
05.20.2026
From Grief to Grit—The Making of a New Darling
“When my son died, I leaned hard on my passion for land surveying, my positivity, and my search for purpose. The opportunity to…
09.24.2022
Real-Time Certainty
Flows in the Colorado River
When crews set off for an ambitious survey project of the lower Colorado River in late fall 2021, they were carrying an additional…
05.16.2022
Shedding Light on a Dark Project
Surveying and scanning ease challenge of building New Zealand’s first underground railway
What often gets lost in the gloss of large construction projects are the small, precise elements that lead to the high-profile finish—the nitty…
03.13.2022
Ship Scanning Sets Sail
Engineering surveyor Danie Roelvert is a strong believer in one particular guiding principle: what is yours will come to you when it’s ready….
12.12.2021
From the Crown Down
Trimble technology helps researchers get to the root of classifying individual trees
Forest management in the Canadian province of Quebec is serious business. With forest landscapes that cover an area twice the size of Sweden,…
08.15.2021
Lighting the Way
When professional surveyor Sylvia De Vuyst arrived in the northern edges of Norway in March 2021 for a significant tunnelling project, she wasn’t…
05.23.2020
Repeated Imaging Success in Schiphol
In 2018, Schiphol Airport in The Netherlands recorded 499,444 commercial air flight movements, an average of about 1,350 take offs and landings per…
10.05.2019
Bringing the Field into the Office in Real Time
Sometimes a project comes along that changes everything. For the Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD), in Fort Worth, Texas, that project was the…
06.23.2019
Simplifying Complexity with Scanning
With survey projects, there’s complex, there’s very complex, and then there’s the Cedar River Flood Control System (CRFCS) project in Cedar Rapids, Iowa….
