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Elevate Construction


Dec 7, 2021

Recording stories for Elevating Construction Surveyors book with Brandon Monteiro. Sections on resection, planning daily tasks, applied leveling, level loops, and layout basics. Resection means shoot known points throughout day for QC. Three-wire closed level loops provide double QC methods built right into it. Layout basics means turn 90s manually, flop instrument, see equipment capabilities.

What you'll learn in this episode:

  • Resection: shoot known points throughout day to verify, solve to ground point, multi-angular resection downtown Los Angeles
  • Plan daily tasks: not just work order, entire day from arriving to leaving, extends past work to family time personal goals
  • Applied leveling: understand leveling math and QC process, bucking in same principles apply, close loops to ensure no error
  • Three-wire level loops: seems like double QC methods built in, distances available, get faster at intelligent concept that cannot steer you wrong
  • Layout basics: turn 90s and 270s manually, flop instrument turn reverse create average, see capabilities not just accept robotic accuracy

Rampant elevation problems throughout projects based on fact that they were not using good leveling techniques, incorrect trigonometric leveling, improper instruments, not applying basics.


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