Building a wood fired clay oven is a fun project and when you get done you’ll have fun using it too. It is however a moderately challenging project. So if you aren’t of sound body and mind, get help, or don’t do it.


Building a wood fired clay oven is a fun project and when you get done you’ll have fun using it too. It is however a moderately challenging project. So if you aren’t of sound body and mind, get help, or don’t do it.

In a story showcased by the January 2015 edition of the CALS Newsletter (Connecticut Association of Land Surveyors), one couple learned the hard way why it can be important to have a property surveyed before closing the deal on a house.
They had just closed on their dream house with the intention of building a swimming pool in the backyard. Plans were submitted, and the city promptly denied their application to build. Why?
Continue reading “What Should Come First: the Survey or the House?” →
As with all GPS technology, it has come a remarkably long way very quickly. And though it is still a long ways from being survey-grade acceptible in accuracy, it has an array of practical applications that are saving surveyors a lot of time and hassle.
Continue reading “Surveyor Spotlight: Roving GPS with the Carlson Supervisor” →
Adam Hoffman and his wife recently visited Israel for the first time. Here are some of the photos from that fantastic trip.
Continue reading “The Traveling Surveyor – Volume 1 Israel””” →
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| Photo courtesy of the New Haven Independent, taken by Markeshia Ricks. |

The 25th annual Salvation Army/WTIC Holiday Store donation drive was held on Christmas Eve this year and once again Hodge, LLC was part of this event.
This week (December 2014), using some of the most advanced camera and laser scanning technologies, “[a] bust of President Obama was created by a Smithsonian-led team of 3D-digital-imaging specialists, Autodesk and 3D Systems, in collaboration with the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies” (whitehouse.gov).
Continue reading “Printing the President’s Face: 3D Scanning” →

Continue reading “Connecticut Bar Association – Construction Documentation” →