Professional Surveyor Magazine 2012 №08

FEATURES10 Scanning London’s Olympic Stadium
The Olympic Stadium is built from prefabricated steelwork components in a demanding workflow where the final design of successive components is adjusted to fit the veri fied deformation of each previously installed component. A team of experienced surveyors met this challenge, along with tight deadlines, to keep construction moving.
ALAN BARROW
16 Generating BIM Under Pressure
Laser scanning and automated feature extraction dramatically speed the process of 3D building information modeling for a $125 million hospital renovation in Ohio.
KEVIN P. CORBLEY
20 Rising River Challenges
Hydrographic surveyors rely on a remotely operated survey vehicle mounted with a single-beam echo sounder and RTK GPS to survey water crossings for pipelines.
MELISSA KELLEY AND ADRIAN MCDONALD,COLUMNS
8 Editor’s Desk
The Future of NSPS
ROBERT DAHN
24 The Political Surveyor
Waiting for Congress
JOHN JB BYRD
28 Hardware Review
Trimble VX Spatial Station
TJ FRAZIER, LS
32 Web Waypoints
Adding Data to Your Web Map
RUDY STRICKLAN, RLS, GISP
36 Business Leader
Actionable Data Diff erentiates Today’s Surveyors
KEN MOOYMAN
40 Guest Editorial
Surveying and Mapping Redefined
JIM GILLIS, NSLS, CLS, RPLS
44 Intersect
Is There Enough Turf for All Geospatial Professionals?
JANET JACKSON, GISP,
AND BILL MOORE, LS