THE IMPORTANCE OF LAND SURVEYORS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

The Importance of Land Surveyors in Civil Engineering

Surveyors are an enigma to many people, but they are commonly seen all over the country. It’s likely you’ve seen them while driving through your hometown, out on vacation, or when headed to work. They are kind of hard to miss; they have a camera, tripod, and other equipment with them to survey a piece of land they’ve been assigned. If you’ve always wondered about what it is they do and their importance in civil engineering, wonder no more.

Prevent Chaos in a Chaotic World

Surveyors help to prevent chaos in a chaotic world. If surveyors weren’t able to efficiently perform their job duties, or we didn’t have the profession, civil engineering would not be as detailed as it is today. Surveyors help to survey the land that all of the following are constructed on:

  • Dams
  • Tunnels
  • Bridges
  • Highways
  • Railways
  • Irrigation
  • Ports
  • Airfields
  • Sewer lines
  • Reservoirs
  • Charting of streamlines, coasts, and waterways
  • Oceanographic charting
  • Fix state and national boundaries
  • Create topographic maps of Earth’s land surface

Surveying is a required part of civil engineering because construction companies would not know what the final version of a project would look like ahead of time. It would be more difficult to put the pieces of the puzzle together during construction.
Without surveyors, none of the aforementioned projects can be constructed correctly. The only way to measure land is to do so via a survey. It is the same measurements and data collected when a homeowner has a survey conducted on their property prior to listing it for sale or before constructing a fence along the property line.

Various Survey Classifications

There isn’t just one type of survey classification either. There are at least nine different types of surveying projects that surveyors complete within civil engineering. Those nine categories include the following:
  • Land: Used to determine the boundaries of parcels of land. Also referred to as a property survey.
  • Control: Used to determine vertical and horizontal positions for control points.
  • Topographic: Used to create a map of an area that has both man-made and natural features.
  • Reconnaissance: Used to explore a site for its infrastructure availability.
  • Engineering: Used to collect data for the design of various engineering projects.
  • Location: Used to set work for construction to begin on the land.
  • Preliminary: Used to collect data for the design and planning stages of engineering.
  • Route: Used to plan, design, and layout the route of canals, highways, railways, pipelines, and any other infrastructure that is linear.
  • Mine: Used to collect data for mining operations.
  • Astronomic: Used to collect longitude and latitude and azimuth when observing astronomical data.
  • Construction: Used to establish grades, lines, and points and staking engineering works well after plans have been finalized and the design of the structure has been completed.

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Comments

  1. AnonymousFebruary 20, 2020 at 7:31 PM

    Very well written article. A good surveyor should be thorough, focused, detailed and responsible. This is a very responsible profession that only real specialists can do.
    Mictec surveyor

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  2. Simon RourkeMay 25, 2022 at 3:27 PM

    There are some laws for that in UK that a Landlord has to have an annual gas and electrical safety inspection carried out and provide service for the appliances in properties that they lets out to tenants. Landlords have a lot of obligations, which may be stressful, especially if you're renting out a house for the first time. In general, you will simply need a government ID and a confirmed account on the platforms.

    Among these obligations is assuring the safety and functionality of all gas and electric equipment and appliances. It is critical to hire Simon Rourke Glasgow and look out for the proper inspection that a Landlord also needs to carry out prior to an empty property being re-let, looking for broken socket outlets, lighting switches, testing the insulation resistance of wiring, and ensuring that safety earth leakage trips are operating correctly.

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