New Homes Above New Utilities: Coordinating Construction Survey Control Underground

New Homes Above New Utilities: Coordinating Construction Survey Control Underground A new subdivision gets built twice. The first construction happens underground, where trunk sewers, water mains, storm systems and dry utilities go beneath streets that do not exist yet. The second happens on top, when the homes rise over everything the first phase is buried. […]

Construction Survey Steps That Support Each Phase of Community Development

Construction Survey Steps That Support Each Phase of Community Development A large community doesn’t rise all at once. It comes up in phases over months or years, each one building on the ground laid before it, and every phase needs its layout to connect cleanly to the last. A construction survey supplies that connective thread, […]

What Is A Land Surveyor?

What Is A Land Surveyor? Posted on July 28, 2015 by HendersonSurveyor A Land Surveyor is essential whenever you plan on building a house, buying or selling a property, or dividing your property amongst your children. Many land surveyor made it down to history. In fact, three of the four faces carved in Rushmore are land surveyors (Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson […]

How To Find Your Home On FEMA’s Flood Insurance Rate Maps

How To Find Your Home On FEMA’s Flood Insurance Rate Maps Posted on July 28, 2017 by HendersonSurveyor What are FEMA flood maps? FEMA’s Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) or just Flood Maps are provided after a flood risk assessment has been completed or updated for a community.  This study is known as a Flood Insurance Study.  The FIRM gives […]