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Setting our Sights on Understanding Land Surveying with Daniel Arthur, RPLS – Ep. 029
About the Guest
I am pumped to share this next conversation with all of you. Daniel is the North Texas Survey Division Manager at Jones|Carter located in Plano, Texas. Daniel brings with him over 20 years of experience in the land surveying industry. After doing his time as a survey tech and office manager for 10 years in east Texas, he struck out to make a name for himself by forming Daniel Arthur Surveying, LLC. After almost 12 years running his own firm, he found himself wanting to join a firm in North Texas. After visiting several firms, he chose to come and be the North Texas Survey Division Manager at Jones|Carter.
Originally founded in 1976, Jones|Carter has grown to more than 500 employees in 10 offices across Texas, their team is organized around 12 services that support nearly 20 public and private market sectors. Remaining true to their mission has helped them to be consistently voted a Best Place to Work by local and regional publications and an Engineering News-Record Top 500 National Firm. You can find out more about Jones|Carter by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page.
In this episode, we are going to unpack the various types of surveys commonly used in land transactions, the current limitations and advantages of LiDAR scanning technologies, and the common myths about land surveying that he often sees and how he would bust those myth. As you will hear on the show, he brings tons of experience on the subject of land surveying and the implementation of the new technologies being utilized in surveying today. I think you will enjoy his take on the various types of land surveys utilized today and how new technologies in surveying might affect the future of real estate development. After listening to this show you will have a greater understanding of land surveys and how they affect your real estate development project.
Main Take-Away’s From This Show
Land surveying has been around for thousands of years and a few things have changed along the way but at its core, the objective of surveying has remained the same. According to Britannica.com, surveying is “a means of making relatively large-scale, accurate measurements of the Earth’s surfaces.” This is no simple feet. It takes several man-hours to produce a document depicting the various attributes of a particular property. The complexity of this task often leads to confusion and a general misunderstanding of the product that these surveyors are delivering. That is why I believe this was a much needed conversation to have on the show. The main take-aways I got from my conversation with Daniel in this “unofficial” Land Surveying 101 course are as follows:
Land surveys come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, depending on the needs of the owner, developer, financial institution, etc…
Understanding the needs of your financial institution when ordering various items on the Table A list for ALTA’s is extremely important.
Utilizing Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) for surveying can be useful, but also has its limitations.
As always, I will dig into each of these “take-away’s” every week on the blog. So, without further a due, here we go!
1. Land surveys come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, depending on the needs of the owner, developer, financial institution, etc…
Land surveys come in all different types based on the needs of the end-user. There are boundary surveys, topographic surveys, and land title surveys (ALTA/NSPS surveys) to just name a few. Each one is utilized at the various stages within a real estate transaction or development.
Boundary surveys are fairly common in nature and often are requested in the initial phases of your ground-up real estate development p...
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Setting our Sights on Understanding Land Surveying with Daniel Arthur, RPLS – Ep. 029
About the Guest
I am pumped to share this next conversation with all of you. Daniel is the North Texas Survey Division Manager at Jones|Carter located in Plano, Texas. Daniel brings with him over 20 years of experience in the land surveying industry. After doing his time as a survey tech and office manager for 10 years in east Texas, he struck out to make a name for himself by forming Daniel Arthur Surveying, LLC. After almost 12 years running his own firm, he found himself wanting to join a firm in North Texas. After visiting several firms, he chose to come and be the North Texas Survey Division Manager at Jones|Carter.
Originally founded in 1976, Jones|Carter has grown to more than 500 employees in 10 offices across Texas, their team is organized around 12 services that support nearly 20 public and private market sectors. Remaining true to their mission has helped them to be consistently voted a Best Place to Work by local and regional publications and an Engineering News-Record Top 500 National Firm. You can find out more about Jones|Carter by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page.
In this episode, we are going to unpack the various types of surveys commonly used in land transactions, the current limitations and advantages of LiDAR scanning technologies, and the common myths about land surveying that he often sees and how he would bust those myth. As you will hear on the show, he brings tons of experience on the subject of land surveying and the implementation of the new technologies being utilized in surveying today. I think you will enjoy his take on the various types of land surveys utilized today and how new technologies in surveying might affect the future of real estate development. After listening to this show you will have a greater understanding of land surveys and how they affect your real estate development project.
Main Take-Away’s From This Show
Land surveying has been around for thousands of years and a few things have changed along the way but at its core, the objective of surveying has remained the same. According to Britannica.com, surveying is “a means of making relatively large-scale, accurate measurements of the Earth’s surfaces.” This is no simple feet. It takes several man-hours to produce a document depicting the various attributes of a particular property. The complexity of this task often leads to confusion and a general misunderstanding of the product that these surveyors are delivering. That is why I believe this was a much needed conversation to have on the show. The main take-aways I got from my conversation with Daniel in this “unofficial” Land Surveying 101 course are as follows:
Land surveys come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, depending on the needs of the owner, developer, financial institution, etc…
Understanding the needs of your financial institution when ordering various items on the Table A list for ALTA’s is extremely important.
Utilizing Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) for surveying can be useful, but also has its limitations.
As always, I will dig into each of these “take-away’s” every week on the blog. So, without further a due, here we go!
1. Land surveys come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, depending on the needs of the owner, developer, financial institution, etc…
Land surveys come in all different types based on the needs of the end-user. There are boundary surveys, topographic surveys, and land title surveys (ALTA/NSPS surveys) to just name a few. Each one is utilized at the various stages within a real estate transaction or development.
Boundary surveys are fairly common in nature and often are requested in the initial phases of your ground-up real estate development p...