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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Thursday, January 18, 2024 Making Tracks – Railroad Problems
NY LS/PE: 4.0; NH 1.0; VT 4.0; NJ 4.0
afternoon sessions Kristopher M. Kline, PLS
1:30pm – 5:30pm
New Standards for Utility Numerous lawsuits emphasize the problems
Infrastructure Investigation, facing the surveyor who attempts to determine
the limits and nature of property rights associated
Documentation, and Data Exchange with rail lines. This course focuses on Railroad
NY LS/PE: 4.0; NH 1.0; VT 4.0; NJ 4.0 Easements and Rights-of-Way with specific focus
Philip J. Meis, MS, PE on understanding how the courts determine the
1:30pm – 5:30pm location and ownership of a rail corridor.
Utility owners are rarely contractual parties to
the infrastructure project development process,
yet their existing pipes, cables, and support Survey Cost Analysis
structures have significant effects on project NY LS/PE: 1.5; NH .25; VT 1.5; NJ 1.5
risk, schedules, and budget. Reliance upon utility Scott R. Reeser, PLS
owner records for design base conditions has
proven insufficient as these are often inadequate 4:30pm – 6:00pm
or incompatible with designer needs, especially Many surveyors are truly experts in the art of
within congested urban corridors. Historically, surveying, but lousy in economics. Get a group
engineers delegated the problem, through of surveyors together from a local area and
disclaimers and onerous contract language, onto eventually they will get around to complaining
the contractor. This escalates projects costs as about the local “low baller”. Odds are that the
contractor contingency rises to reactively address individual they are speaking about is not out
unforeseen utility issues, but more importantly, The Business of Surveying to undercut the competition. In many cases,
engineers forgo opportunities to proactively and NY LS/PE: 0.0; NH 0.0; VT 1.5; NJ 1.5 they have not taken the time to look at the real
strategically address base conditions that affect Kevin Hanley, PLS effort involved in their work. This session is
public health, safety, and welfare (such as worker 2:00pm – 3:30pm intended to help them perform that analysis.
safety, integrity and operations of vital utility
services, traffic sand commercial disruption, This course will provide a perspective on the
public discomfort, and societal costs) in the integration of a professional practice with the Modeling with Style –
planning and design stages. ASCE developed necessary commercial aspects of the profession. Using Civil 3D Styles
two standards, ASCE/UESI/CI 38-22 (ASCE 38) It will be presented by a registered Professional NY LS/PE: 1.5; NH .25; VT 1.5; NJ 1.5
and ASCE/UESI/CI 75-22 (ASCE 75), to assist Land Surveyor that ran a successful small Margaret McMenamin, PE, CFM
engineers in managing risk associated with surveying business for almost 30 years. 4:30pm – 6:00pm
utility infrastructure. ASCE 38 is a non-mandatory This session will go “under the hood” into
consensus standard and considered a best Improving Your Workflow from
practice in many states; however, Colorado went a the Field into the Office with styles and settings for Civil 3D points including
step further and turned ASCE 38 into a statutorily point markers and label styles. Beginning with
required standard for all public projects disturbing Carlson Software point data, attendees will learn how to choose
more than 1,000 square feet and 2-feet of depth. NY LS/PE: 1.5; NH .25; VT 1.5; NJ 1.5 which point marker and point label style will
The results from Colorado have Pennsylvania and Michael Hyman be used to display points. The course will
other states following suit. The Engineers Joint 2:00pm – 3:30pm cover the four levels of point display, including
Committee on Contract Documents (EJCDC) also In this session we will look at the options, description keys and point groups, as well as
reference these standards as a basic engineering settings, and output features within Carlson’s how to set point creation defaults. Additionally,
service. ASCE 75 is being applied as a digital utility Field Collection Software as well as Office they will learn how to create their own point
“as-built” standard for recording newly installed Software. A quick look at a code list that styles, including markers based on user-
and exposed utility infrastructure; the survey seamlessly bonds the field to the office for defined blocks, and on which layers points and
community has an important role to oversee making the survey map. Focusing on Carlson
successful implementation of ASCE-75 and ensure Field collection best practices, we’ll jump start their labels will reside within the drawing.
utilities are accurately tied to the National Geodetic the class and show how it seamlessly bonds
Survey’s national Spatial Reference System itself together with Carlson’s office software.
(NSRS) before getting buried and forgotten. ASCE Settings and suggested workflow enhancements
38 and ASCE 75, along with new technologies for will also be reviewed and analyzed for survey
cloud-based data management and geophysical control while in the field. Incorporating GPS/
methods for seeking out utilities, are driving new
and untapped risk management strategies for GNSS, as well as total station data, will also be
project development. This session will present discussed, showing how to process the raw and
these two newly published utility standards, field collected data. At the end of this session,
associated new technologies, and new legislative students should have a better feel for the
efforts to employ those best practices. options and enhancements to improve workflow
within the company with Carlson’s SurvPC and
Carlson Office Software.
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