Hi,
My Chinese crew leader invited me to go to his office in Shanghai. His company has over 100 employees, the boss is 1 man who owns the office buidling and compound, sort of russian era, design maybe, but could be newer, as the buildings age faster there.
His crews sleep in accomodation in another part of the yard, with an onsite cook and eating room.
They took me to the new Disneyland project they are doing,huge, out of town so lots of space. they also do lots of monitoring of buildings, especially tall buildings due to the earthquake prone conditions,roads as well.
They have small containers with double bunks to sleep 4 and enough room for an office deck, for out in the field.
We got on some guys bike to go from the train station to the office, hence 3 on the motor scooter, they have some great traverse programs, simple but with no bloatware, but all in Chinese, so no use to me.
They are almost all Leica user, they dont use too many data collectors though.
The labour is cheap, so one reads the shots and the other records on schoolbook like notepads, it works for them.
They have lots of gps stuff also, with Trimble getting a leg in to the country first.
Really nice people.
Cheers
David
That's some pretty thick looking air you got there.
Your last set of photos made me cough as well just looking at them.
Seems like you need to smoke just to get some relief.
🙂
Don
He had given up smoking, but upon seeing the air decided he needed a filter in his mouth.
David, I had the shear pleasure of visiting China a few years ago. I use the word "awesome" to describe Shanghai. I marveled at the "crooked" skyscraper - what a surveying feat!
I saw survey crews using Trimble. I also saw a crew setting what I assumed was slopestakes, using some sort of flag instead of stakes?, which to this day I can't be sure about since I couldn't ask at the time. All I can say is they have BIG cities in China - and more skyscrapers going up, as far as the eye can see, in every direction I looked. Should keep those crews busy.
What astonishes me is the degree of planning and coordination on these massive projects they seem to do with ease.
David,
Great pictures.
Your comment about lack of data collectors got me to thinking. How do they use GPS without a DC?
Just curious,
JA, PLS SoCal
