In sharing some tragic instrument memories, I hope to encourage those people who use surveying instruments on a daily basis along with the occasional user.

Categories studied include total stations, data collector/controllers, geodetic survey-grade carrier-phase GPS receivers, mapping-grade code-phase receivers, 3D laser scanners, UAVs, and wireless cloud computing.

Land-use consultancy Dresdner Robin provided expert services on the future home of Jersey City’s first Whole Foods Market.

On most major urban projects, long before the first bucket of dirt has been scooped, the first pile driven, even the first property corner verified, work, in the form of pre-construction survey and monitoring, has already been set in place.

How complicated can it be to redesign a simple bus stop?

If the Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) offered frequent-contractor points, the professional land surveyors at CES Group Engineers would likely be triple-platinum members.

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.

Scotland is known for harsh weather, and this storm already had been named "The Beast from the East." The storm would hammer the region with high winds, freezing temperatures and driving snow, but Harland could not allow the monstrous weather to deter the work.

The Trimble S9 and S9 HP total stations are built for specialized applications such as monitoring and tunneling, where optimal speed, accuracy and reliability are needed.

The Leica FlexLine TS03, TS07 and TS10 models are designed to improve productivity in the field by automatically capturing height.