This one caught our attention from a CALS newsletter a few months back (Connecticut Association of Land Surveyors).
Published orginally by NPR, it’s the story of a town that was made and unmade, all because of a drafting company back in the 1930s that set a copyright trap.
You can read the full story here.
Godfrey-Hoffman Associates was a proud member of the team for the upcoming revamping of Branford’s boat launch. GHA provided the boundary and topographic survey needed for the design and permitting process. Another proud and successful accomplishment.
A Huffington Post article recently featured in the Connecticut Association of Land Surveyor’s (CALS) weekly newsletter captured the importance of a push for climate change preparedness in Washington called the climate data initiative. The initiative will make public useful and pertinant information in regards to climate change, compiling it at Climate.Data.gov.
The aim of the initiative is to make information regarding climate change more available to foster private-sector action on climate change preparedness.
According to the Obama Administration, “the climate change initiative will help create easy-to-use tools for regional planners, farmers, hospitals, and businesses across the country — and empower America’s communities to prepare themselves for the future.”
Continue reading “Elevation Certificates and the Climate Data Initiative”
For all the extreme weather conditions surveyors have to sometimes deal with, there are those times that make you remember why you became a surveyor in the first place.
“It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money – that’s all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot – it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”
For those anticipating the rainy season of Connecticut, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has recently released an updated version of their website, as part of the reforms that took place last month.
Here, you can find a detailed explanation of the amends to the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Act, and how they will affect you in the years to come.
Common Ground is now an uncommon sight for a High School. A project to install geothermal wells has recently entered construction phase. These wells will act to use the earth as a heat source (during the winter) and a heat sink (during the summer).
Located on State Street in New Haven, the old industrial site is now the stuff of great plans. Recently, the City Plan Comission approved plans for the construction of some 235 residential units. This would involve demolishing most of the existing buildings, which have been vacant and locked up.
Continue reading “Project Spotlight: the Star Supply Building”
“More so than ever before, being a surveyor requires a general knowledge of technology that you all already possess,” said Calvin Weingart, L.S., to a class of high school students at Common Ground School. As part of a career-event, Calvin and survey technician Peter Grunawalt from Godfrey-Hoffman volunteered to give a presentation about the land surveying profession.
The emphasis of the presentation was on several key points:
