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Poettker Construction launches drones program

CCR Magazine

This innovative initiative enhances pre-project planning, improves construction visibility, boosts safety measures and increases operations efficiencies. We are also able to use the drone to obtain existing topographical information enabling us to make preliminary plans and prepare earthwork budgets early in the project design process.

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HCSS Highlights its HCSS Plans Software for Digital Plans Management

Civil + Structural Engineer

SUGAR LAND, TX: HCSS, a leading provider of innovative software helping heavy civil construction businesses streamline their operations, highlights HCSS Plans, a digital plans management solution ideal for construction job site foremen in the field.

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Total Station in Surveying | Operations of Surveying | Advantage & Disadvantage of Surveying | Types of Surveying | Uses of Surveying

CivilJungle

What Is a Total Station in Surveying? The most frequently used surveying instrument today is the total station (As per below figure No1). An entire station is a combination of a digital theodolite, an electronic distance measuring device (EDM) and a microprocessor with a memory unit.

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Trimble Monitoring Software Expands Sensor Support to Deliver Broader Rail and Structural Deformation Analytics for Survey, Monitoring and Construction Professionals

Civil + Structural Engineer

These enhancements provide survey engineering firms, monitoring service providers and construction contractors with an even more comprehensive view of infrastructure risk for better informed decision making, and increased control and security. Event-based monitoring of ground-motion Version 6.5

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McCarthy Completes New Port of Beaumont Main Street Terminal

Civil + Structural Engineer

New roll on/roll off terminal will increase cargo capacity by 15% BEAUMONT, Texas – McCarthy Building Companies has completed construction on Port of Beaumont’s Main Street Terminal 1. The project included demolition of a failed dock structure and construction of a new state-of-the-art general cargo dock.

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Coastal restoration project gives threatened coastal plant another chance

Civil + Structural Engineer

Army Corps of Engineers, New York District was walking on Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, the location of the agency’s Atlantic Coast of New Jersey Sandy Hook to Barnegat Inlet Beach Erosion Control Project. The project increased the size of the habitat for the plant, as well as performed environmental conservation measures to protect it.

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How unpiloted systems are changing the landscape for civil and structural engineers

Civil + Structural Engineer

Civil and structural engineers rely on data when making critical decisions on the jobsite, and it’s challenging, if not impossible, to make informed choices quickly when it might take days for a crew to schedule a time to survey a location. The process works for indoor and outdoor projects.