We use GIS and GPS. We use coordinates from the drawing and convert them to UTM and download into Garman GPS units. Boring layout time we find in Florida is reduced by more than half. I've found borings up to a year later on a project. We are in the process of upgrading to Autocad Map3D to...
If you are a civil firm that has a geotechnical group and you would like to grow, you may have some issues that can get in your way from how I see it.
Being a civil and doing geotechnical engineering means that you would have to market your competitors to get the geotechnical work. I'm sure...