On many jobsites throughout the world, layout for a structure’s mechanicals is still done using a measuring tape, a string, and a lumber crayon. Not so for HPS Mechanical, which is well into its fourth year embracing layout technology based on a robotic total station.

Oregon construction crews, biologists, geologists, roadway designers and wetlands workers have gained precise digital as-constructed measurements for state projects using rugged GNSS tablets in the field.

Where I have chosen to prepare the base plans, I feel that what I produce are the canvas upon which architects and engineers can practice their “art.”

This year marks the 40th anniversary of POB Magazine. It just so happens that in June of this year I marked my 10th anniversary as a regular columnist for the magazine.

NSPS reports the Department of Labor ruled that members of survey crews are subject to the construction prevailing wage law.