sports facility layout

I did a little bit of work on the Pikes Peak International Raceway, what a disappointment that turned out to be. I don't know what goes on there now but there has not been any racing in years. My boss at the time even bought a couple of the sponsor ceramic tiles which were incorporated in there somewhere.

> I did a little bit of work on the Pikes Peak International Raceway, what a disappointment that turned out to be. I don't know what goes on there now but there has not been any racing in years. My boss at the time even bought a couple of the sponsor ceramic tiles which were incorporated in there somewhere.

I never understood that place. Are you talking about that winding dirt road running up to the top? It ain't like you can spin out in a turn and hit the wall or "fence". Miss the turn there and you'd better have wings or a big chute. I wouldn't do it.

I have worked on a handful of golf courses, a couple of baseball fields, one track and one swimming pool (as-built verification for, I think, NCAA purposes).

I used to live near a major university, and it afforded some advantages as far as project opportunities go.

I am heading up the layout and machine control modelling for the new Braves stadium mass grading here in Atlanta. Massive export of nearly 1 million cubic yards of material of which more than half is going to be shot rock. I have staked golf courses too. On the ones I have been involved in we basically staked clearing limits of fairways, cart paths between holes, and once cleared we staked location of tee boxes and green complexes. After the clearing was done the design engineer took over and staked grades for fairways for the graders trying to stay with the lay of the land as much as possible with minimal cuts and fills. He was very precise with green complexes and they changed with his mood. The guy was very meticulous and very well versed with auto level and rag tape. It's pretty cool playing it now, even though my buddies are sick of me showing them contol points in the edge of the woods and telling bee sting stories. We must've gotten stung every day that summer. Early 2000's, worst summer I remember for yellow jackets here in Ga. Had an eye man get hit so many times one day he went green and started shaking. That afternoon was spent at the ER..... Ahhh the memories.

No, this is an oval track to NASCAR standards about half way between Colorado Springs and Pueblo Colorado.

They did pave most or all of the hill climb road to the top of Pikes peak. Very dangerous things boys do with motorized vehicles.

I've laid out high school tracks before. We have done work on our local golf course for distance markers.

Awesome Steve!! That's about <10 miles from me.
I just heard on the radio moments ago that it is going to be called "Suntrust Stadium".
Need help? Come get me. Ain't got much else to do.
E.

I did an elevation cert for the local university's basketball/hockey arena. William Wenzel, who posts here occasionally, measures the official distances for the Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw.

-G

I had to check then remark a brand new high school track when the times in the 800m relay were approaching world records. Our finding reviled the staggered starts were wrong. Apparently there are two ways to run a 800m relay "stay in lane for duration of race or break to the inside lane at some point like a 1600m relay. The coach gave the wrong answer when the question of how do you run your race, 3 or 4 turn, was asked.

I have since done several tracks for the local school district a well as baseball, softball and football fields. I also helped with a skate board ramp/park.

The company that I work for has been involved in about 7 country club communities with golf courses, although I have not actually worked on any of them.
We are currently doing the track and football field/stadium renovation for a local high school and we almost got the layout contract for the new sports facility and wakeboard park in Acworth. Even though we did the original boundary and topo, politics took over and somebody else got the staking portion.
A firm that I previously worked for recently did the official measuring for the Guinness Book of World Records. It was for the fastest 30 meter scooter ride by a dog. They certified the length of track and the timing.

Don't do the golf thing, but Yancey county is one of the most magnetic places I know of! Just keeps drawing me back!

currently one of many surveyors on edmontons downtown arena and district projects. likely 1+ billion in development including our new hockey arena.

http://ead.ca/

really? Yancey county is about obscure and remote as it gets.
If you know the county, I did a lot of work in the eastern side. Heritage Mounatin near around Micaville.
If you know the ridges around Mountain Aire you might have fallen behind some of my work. Perhaps a "Webb Morgan" cap. Nicest guy anyone should ever hope to meet.
I was subbed out to him and spent a lot of time at his office bringing home the data. A couple years later doing the Mounatin Aire project we ran across his caps. Someone at the office said something about visiting him to see could we get some data. I mentioned I knew him well and had been to his office many time. I got tagged as the liasse (sp?).

Baseball, track, trap fields and football fields. Just missed out on Whispering Straights. That would have been interesting as we would have had to live on site and be available 24/7. And I don't golf.

Worked on a golf course project for over a year that was supposed to become one of the premier course and estate development in South. Louisiana. The golf course was designed by former PGA golfer Tom
Weiskoph. It was a very diverse terrain from bottom land hardwood to pine savannah. It was about 900 acres and did boundary, topo, road and wetlands transect lines. A lot of time and work in a snake infested environs .
While avoiding snakes , I also staked the tee box and hole locations plus flagged the fairways.
The Corp would not issue permits in the end and the golf course never was built.
It had a few artesian fed ponds , one of which was perfect for swimming even though there was a curious 4 ft gator who didn't mind you sharing the pond for a dip.

I also have worked on drainage on football fields and track surface layout and

> What other facility, field, pitch, track, arena, etc. has anyone else done work on?
> I remember seeing some questions about a baseball field many years ago.
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I've worked on High school football stadiums (from parking lot to stands to field/track), a school gym(used for all school activities - small school district), a subdivision with golf course design by Jack Nicolas, 2 skate/bike parks and the coup de grace, the Circuit of the Americas race track.

On the race track, I calculated over 10k points with elevations for every thing. We had contours on 1 cm intervals. It was a very labor intensive job due to deadlines and milestones to get the track open for the first race.

I have worked on numerous high school athletic facilities.

Probably the coolest thing I have worked on was pretty simple, but I surveyed for a Doppler Radar system that was installed at AutoZone Park in Memphis for the Memphis Redbirds, a AAA farm team for the St. Louis Cardinals.

I had to locate the radar units, and then map the baseball field. I was told the radar system could track the spin of the ball, the speed, the angle of the ball off of the bat after it had been hit, etc. It was/is a state of the art system, and they were talking about us going to St. Louis to do the same thing at the new Bush Stadium. It never happened, unfortunately. It would have been pretty darn cool. That was several years ago.

Most memorable work

I was working with an engineering firm in Starkville, MS, and we did the engineering work for the Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, MS, back in the late 80's. Jerry Pate and Tom Cupp were the big names I remember - one was a pro golfer and the other was a golf course designer. We got a big paper map with a proposed golf course depicted on it that consisted of 320 acres with over 100 residential and commercial lots and an 18-hole PGA approved golf course. We worked a while on that one to lay out the tee boxes, fairways, sand traps, roads, lots, pro shop and other structures. We designed an intake structure on a nearby Tombigbee River tributary to pump water from the River to lake on the golf course where they had a golf course watering system intake structure built. Watering an 18-hole golf course in a Mississippi hot summer takes a LOT of water. As development proceeded, we went back to do individual lot surveys as the club owners required lot owners to submit for approval a lot topographic survey with an architect designed house situated on the lot for approval. We had to watch for golf balls flying through the air long before the course was opened because the club owners and others were eagerly trying out the course. The sharp-hooved deer kept tracking up and eating the expensive fareway and greens grass, and a gas-powered sonic cannon was used to try and scare them off. We did not know about that until we went there to stake a force main sewer line and that thing went off over the next hill! My brains were scrambled, and the maintenance superintendent laughed and apologized for forgetting to tell me. After a few days, the deer just ignored it.
We did a lot of work with transit and chain, and other work with total stations. If GPS had been around then, some of the work would have gone a lot faster.

That was my most memorable job, and it was a lot of fun working with engineering design and layout of a golf course.

Other memorable work included stakeout work on the major highway bridges crossing the Tenn-Tom Waterway in this area. As-built elevations on an 18-inch beam with 90-degree bend rebar sticking out of the top at 85+ up in the air over water and solid ground while wearing an ankle cast was interesting, too! :-O

> I had to locate the radar units, and then map the baseball field. I was told the radar system could track the spin of the ball, the speed, the angle of the ball off of the bat after it had been hit, etc. It was/is a state of the art system, and they were talking about us going to St. Louis to do the same thing at the new Bush Stadium. It never happened, unfortunately. It would have been pretty darn cool. That was several years ago.

That sounds like something they use for immediate distance measurements in those home-run derby events. Since I've never seen fellers scattering around the outfield bleacher seats with a rover, I figured it must be some sort of radar tracking.