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Vol.4 Issue 7: August 2009

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	Automating Grader Control, Maximizing Efficiency Reclaiming Efficiency: GNSS technology enables efficient as-built surveying for a $100 million water treatment and reclamation plant Precarious Positioning Measuring Granite Peak: How we got our picture on the wall at Angry Hank's Free High-Definition Surveying Webcast Shows Surveyors How to Profitably Meet Increasingly Stringent Project Requirements


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Automating Grader Control, Maximizing Efficiency
Grading contractor Bernie Schmidtlein recently spent just over $60,000 for an automated grader control system, and he's glad he did. Last spring Schmidtlein used the system on its first project: a 31-acre tract of land that he and the crews of Schmidtlein Excavating graded for a Home Depot warehouse in Topeka, KS.
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Reclaiming Efficiency: GNSS technology enables efficient as-built surveying for a $100 million water treatment and reclamation plant
How many surveyors are needed to stay ahead of 75 to 100 construction workers building a $100-million water treatment and reclamation plant addition? New generation surveying equipment is enabling field engineer John Simms to complete all of the work by himself.
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Precarious Positioning
The Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge is set to reopen as a pedestrian walkway in October—thanks in part to two brave surveyors with high-tech GNSS equipment from Leica Geosystems.
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Measuring Granite Peak: How we got our picture on the wall at Angry Hank's
It's official now, or is it just more official? The tallest mountain in Montana–Granite Peak–is 12,807.09 feet high, give or take a half a foot, according to a Billings crew’s Global Positioning System survey with the Leica GPS 1200.
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