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I wonder if the people at LoInk Specialties would be interested in selling these hard to find, specialty items.
I wasn't going to watch the video until I read JPH's comment. I only got 1/2 way through it and decided I would fire that guy for exacerbating whateve...
This is just a planning number, of course.
I'm sorry for your loss.
Circular curve vs. parabolic curve Therefore, circular vertical curves.
Since you mentioned a section breakdown, I'm too far removed geographically to have a good answer for you, even with the plan copies the others are as...
Your example just fired up a bunch of questions in my mind. I'm not familiar with mining claims, but I always thought they only conferred a right to e...
That would prevent any prescriptive claims from ripening in most any state, I would think. It removes the "hostile" aspect of the statutory requiremen...
I'm with you on this. Oftentimes a search by street name will turn up plans that are not referenced in any of the deeds you find. It's major PIA when ...
Every place I have worked has a clause in the contract that the research, calculations, CAD, etc. are "instruments of service" and belong to the compa...
It sounds like you "bit the bullet" early enough that the opportunity cost of trying to make the old dongle work did not skyrocket beyond the cost of ...
That's an interesting question, Bill - does permission expire when the land ownership changes? I would think that it does, so it would seem that the t...
I'm not a surveyor in Wisconsin so don't know the standards of practice there. For what it's worth, in my area of practice (Massachusetts), there is ...
@tom-bushelman if you're referring to Christopher Knight - he wasn't known to his neighbors as a hermit. He was arrested because the neighbors were si...
In Mass. we have to give "reasonable notice" before entering the non-client property. Usually the field crew talking with the neighbors is sufficient....
I can't suggest a dollar value, but I will advise that it's better to get the $ up front, not spread out over time. I have seen a number of buy out si...
He did note that the board requiring 4,000 hours broken down into 5 categories is Texas.
Personally, I would not be very keen on being an add-on survey department to an existing civil engineering-only firm. Most of my career I've worked fo...