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Angus W. Stocking, L.S., is a licensed land surveyor who has been writing about infrastructure since 2002. He can be reached at angusstocking@gmail.com.
Most surveyors know, from study and training if not personal experience, that "least squares" are important. That might be the extent of what they know though.
The Gerald Desmond Bridge is being replaced with California’s first long span, cable-stayed bridge, with an additional 50 feet of clearance, making it one of the tallest cable-stayed bridges in the United States.
Tronnes Survey was asked to step in on a tricky project involving the Edmonton International Airport’s (EIA) new Combined Office Tower (COT), which includes offices and the air traffic control tower in an eight-story building.
One of the favorite tropes in thrillers and war movies is “The Display.” Political leaders, nuclear power plant operators, spies or law enforcement personnel gather around a screen, tabletop display or hologram, and all the information they could possibly desire—troop movements, rainfall patterns, power station locations, roadblocks—is perfectly displayed in a way that is immediately apprehensible by even the meanest intelligence.
The Auburn-Alabama intrastate football rivalry is ranked by ESPN as one of the 10 most intense rivalries in all of sports, right up there with Frazier-Ali and Yankees-Red Sox. In fact, competition is so intense that the Iron Bowl had to be held in Birmingham (a neutral site midway between the two schools) for 40 years--and that was after a 40-year period (1908-1948) when the game was cancelled entirely.
