Hi,
Well I have just finished this 1 billion dollar job in Beijing,my fourth one of this size and function, heading home in 4 weeks and then a break.
I am down to the landscaping, car park, 3 kilometer of external fence complete with strip footings.
We had a one in sixty year flood last month and a chinese crew had their expensive Leica submerged for 2 days, so I sold them my unit, which was only just under 2 years old.I wont need it in Australia. I managed to layout the next stage control points to help the next guy, it may just be me ha ha., which may be in a year, if the economy picks up.
I have read here where lots of guys dont like construction survey work, to me its second nature and a breeze, as long as you triple check and self check all the time.
I will be coming up to 44 years of this soon, maybe two more years and thats it.I have my trusty old pair of hp 48's which I love because they do all i need. I mentioned a few months ago all the different company supplied units i have used, no i didnt get to learn them all properly, just enought to do what I need, but most of all to know what they wont do, test their accuracey and know what they can and cannot do within the parameters of my own use.
A lot of rectangular measures due to the accuracey required, and a lot of asbuilt work as well.When I did highrise structures I would get nervous the night before a lift core pour, these are the main part of a building, then when I did large factories I would get nervouse when they poured the large h.d. bolts. etc. Then it just became so natural, I would use the same method before and after a pour to do the layout so my calcs would be the same, but in the office beforehand I would do calcs sometimes 3 different ways to prove the method, but double check on site as well, always cross checking against different permanent stations. I dont have a lot of faith in reflectorless measure, nor did i resect much, but over the years the jiggers have come a long way and more helpful.
Now I am using the company set 610 from 7 years ago, painfully strange edm, compared to the latest Lecia, but it was fine on the last factory, and ok for the external works here, since I set control with the leica before selling it.
You never get much day to day recognition, they only call for the surveyor when something is wrong etc, but I do get a nice letter after the job saying thanks. Just my thoughts, I shall still be selling those optical plummets if anyone is interested, along with the carlson surveyor 2 , never used and software included.Cheers
> I have read here where lots of guys dont like construction survey work, to me its second nature and a breeze, as long as you triple check and self check all the time.
Billion dollar construction projects, that have an organizational structure and professional management attached to them are great. It's the construction jobs where the guy in charge is also the backhoe operator, where you are low bidding for $2000 in fees, that wear you out. Forget that.
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Well done, first round is on me.
Congratulations David
The first superintendent that I worked for got me in a habit. When the last concrete pour is made he'd pitch a coin (usually a silver dollar) into the concrete and say AMF (Adios M#^(*@^ F^*&%%$). I never carried silver dollars but pitched a bunch quarters into forms.
Andy
Congratulations David
We have the same tradition, pass around a hard hat and everybody kicks in some change which is dumped in the last pile drilled.
