• Construction surveying or building surveying (otherwise known as "staking", "stake-out", "lay-out", or "setting-out") is to provide dimensional control...
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    Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions...
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  • Instruments used in surveying include: Alidade Alidade table Cosmolabe Dioptra Dumpy level Engineer's chain Geodimeter Graphometer Groma (surveying) Laser scanning...
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    harbors, before construction. Land surveying In the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and most Commonwealth countries land surveying is considered...
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    theodolite is an electronic/optical instrument used for surveying and building construction. It is an electronic transit theodolite integrated with electronic...
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    services firms (e.g., engineering, architecture, surveying, project management). Building construction is the process of adding structures to areas of...
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  • Public Land Survey System Construction surveying, the locating of structures relative to a reference line, used in the construction of buildings, roads, mines...
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    places, a civil engineer may perform land surveying; in others, surveying is limited to construction surveying, unless an additional qualification is obtained...
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    surveyor's tripod is a device used to support any one of a number of surveying instruments, such as theodolites, total stations, levels or transits....
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    as Sokkisha in Japan. It makes measurement instruments for the surveying, construction and industrial measurement industries. In 2008 Sokkia was acquired...
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    vertical separation) of objects or marks. It is widely used in surveying and construction to measure height differences and to transfer, measure, and set...
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  • Council for Quantity Surveying Profession QSI - Quantity Surveyor International UNTEC - Union nationale des Économistes de la construction (France) A university...
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  • Environmental surveying is the title of a profession within the wider field of surveying, the practitioners of which are known as environmental surveyors...
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    benchmarks using a handheld GPS receiver. Broad arrow Geoid Levelling—a surveying technique that uses benchmarks Ordnance datum Spot height "Bench marks...
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    Laser level (category Construction surveying)
    In surveying and construction, the laser level is a control tool consisting of a rotating laser beam projector that can be affixed to a tripod. The tool...
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  • Cadastral surveying is the sub-field of cadastre and surveying that specialises in the establishment and re-establishment of real property boundaries....
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    1. Gorse, Christopher A., and David Johnston. A dictionary of construction, surveying, and civil engineering. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012....
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    subdiscipline of transportation engineering that involves the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, highways, streets, bridges, and...
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    1. Gorse, Christopher A., and David Johnston. A dictionary of construction, surveying, and civil engineering. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012....
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    sometimes croma, or gruma in the literature of the republican times) was a surveying instrument used in the Roman Empire. The groma allowed projecting right...
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    rectangular restraints. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering, an anchor plate "is a plate attached to...
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    in construction surveying, construction drafting, planning and estimating and quality control; prepare progress reports, time records, construction schedules...
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    Linear referencing (category Construction surveying)
    GIS PostGIS QGIS Chainage (also known as station references) in construction surveying Exit number Geocoding Geographic coordinate system Length measurement...
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    Hip roof (redirect from Hip (construction))
    p. 106. ISBN 1-879362-03-1. "Pavilion roof". A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering. Oxford University Press. 18 April 2013....
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  • Civil engineering surveying, a survey of local topographic features for engineering purposes Cadastral surveying, the surveying of specific land parcels to...
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    Line laser (category Construction surveying)
    Machine vision 3D scanner Laser scanning Laser line level Laser level Surveying Detecting tripwires Media related to Line lasers at Wikimedia Commons...
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    contribution to hydrographic surveying during much of the rest of the 20th century. So valuable was wire-drag surveying in the United States that for...
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  • Gross profit, an accounting term General practice, a term used in construction surveying Model GP, for General Purpose tractor, built by Deere & Company...
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    Reticle (category Surveying)
    Christopher Gorse, David Johnston, Martin Pritchard, Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.), Oxford University Press, 2020 –...
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    Construction aggregate, or simply aggregate, is a broad category of coarse- to medium-grained particulate material used in construction, including sand...
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