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CIVIL ENGINEERING SURVEYOR The Journal of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link BIM Rail Early Warnings May 2014... Read more
NESS 2014 S DESIGN CENTRE NO REG expec geosp Over OW!GISTER cted to attend patial experts 2,500 USIN USINESS B B www.Ge Register eoBusinessShow.com online today at:ONDON 􀃥BUSINESS UK 28–29 MAY S DESI... Read more
May Contents 05.President’s Column 06.ICES regions 11.Events 12. News 14.Legal Q&A 43.Social network 50.Classifieds/Where to buy 51.Subscriptions 53.Profiles 54.Recruitment Regulars Features 16. Surve... Read more
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05 2014 President’s Column 5 How active is your institution?I T seems that we have only just finished our own very successful BIM conference in February, and now here we are making the final preparati... Read more
6 ICES Regions Civil Engineering Surveyor David Oram will cover various issues surrounding building information modelling, including the responsibilities and liabilities of contributors; the duties of... Read more
05 2014 ICES Regions 7 amendments to the standard terms; the increased use of FIDIC contracts in the UK market; common problems encountered;and the use of dispute adjudication boards.ICES Scotland 06 ... Read more
8 Institution News Civil Engineering Surveyor CDM consultation launches The Health and Safety Executive has launched a consultation on the replacement of the Construction (Design and Management) Regul... Read more
05 2014 Institution News/Bookshelf 9 ICES at GEO Business The institution will be at the GEO Business conference and exhibition this month at London’s Business Design Centre. The show runs from 28-29 ... Read more
Membership Application and Upgrade Surgeries Are you thinking of upgrading your membership?Do you know anyone interested in applying for membership?Do you want your employees to develop their professi... Read more
05 2014 Events 11 The Brits Who Built the Modern World Now-27 May 2014: London, UK www.architecture.com/BritsExhibition GeoDATA 14 May 2014: Dublin, Ireland 03 June 2014: Brussels, Belgium 05 June 201... Read more
12 News Roundup Civil Engineering Surveyor Worldwide DEM for flood modelling The US government has begun a new climate data initiative. Launched at the White House, it will see Google, Microsoft, Inte... Read more
05 2014 News Roundup 13 One down, eight to go at London Bridge The first stage of the London Bridge Station redevelopment has been completed. Two renewed terminus platforms have opened as part of Netw... Read more
14 Legal Q&A Civil Engineering Surveyor Requirement for the consultant’s consent The starting point is that the employer needs the consultant’s consent to novate.However, employers often circumvent th... Read more
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16 Survey4BIM Civil Engineering Surveyor If BIM is fundamentally about the management of information throughout the lifecycle of a built asset, then I would argue that surveyors, or geospatial enginee... Read more
05 2014 Survey4BIM 17 • Share knowledge and learning between Survey4BIM members.• Establish collaborative links to universities and academia. We need to educate the full supply-chain.• Produce and pub... Read more
05 2014 Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link 19 T HE Fehmarnbelt fixed link realises the ambition of a fixed, closed and direct connection between Scandinavia and continental Europe. The link will be established ac... Read more
20 Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link Civil Engineering Surveyor Permanent GNSS stations The geodetic reference frame for the FCS is based on four permanent GNSS stations established for the purpose. The GNSS sta... Read more
05 2014 Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link 21 In the Fehmarnbelt area of the Baltic Sea, a slow rise of mean sea level relative to the neighbouring land is taking place Heiligenhafen on the German mainland, as we... Read more
22 Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link Civil Engineering Surveyor from the network approach and the backup single station approach. The RTK correction data is transmitted by UHF radio on four different frequencies... Read more
05 2014 Utility Surveying 23 T HE PAS 128 specification for underground utility detection,verification and location is currently undergoing final minor edits ready for release to the British Standards... Read more
24 Utility Surveying Civil Engineering Surveyor techniques available, leading to a miscomprehension that a utility survey is somehow an X-ray of the ground. This is not the case and a measure of confi... Read more
05 2014 Utility Surveying 25 comprising survey practitioners, subsurface utility engineering practitioners, utility owners, institutions, trade associations,government agencies, academia, buyers of se... Read more
26 NEC3 Civil Engineering Surveyor T HE New Engineering Contract third edition includes some important provisions requiring the contractor to issue notifications, particularly in relation to early war... Read more
28 NEC3 Civil Engineering Surveyor eight weeks of becoming aware of the event, clause 61.3 prevents its right to claim an adjustment to the prices and the completion date (unless it is an event which ... Read more
05 2014 Data Management 29 E NGINEERING data management (EDM) seeks to connect the engineering and project management disciplines to reduce asset planning, design, construction, operation and maintena... Read more
30 Data Management Civil Engineering Surveyor dangerous situation. If the installation team practices the installation in a safe environment first, then the physical activity has a higher chance of be... Read more
05 2014 Data Management 31 engineers to make more informed decisions but, in reality, the data is just too overwhelming. On the Midland Mainline we’re transforming our point cloud into a change contro... Read more
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05 2014 BIM 33 T HERE can be very few who haven’t heard of building information modelling, and you may be aware that BIM level 2 has been mandated by the UK government for all public sector projects r... Read more
34 BIM Civil Engineering Surveyor be in the courts. The culture in the construction industry will not support BIM and must change.Sadly the development of the construction industry over the last 100 y... Read more
05 2014 BIM 35 concrete? All are typical questions where the answers are readily available from such a source dataset. The UK government’s BIM Task Group recognises the central role that surveyors wil... Read more
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05 2014 Erosion 37 C LIMATE change is an increasing concern worldwide and its effects have become ever more apparent. In the Caribbean sea-level rise has been close to 3mm a year since 1993.The combin... Read more
38 Erosion Civil Engineering Surveyor local people managing the Anegada’s coastline through the public availability of data. GNSS Each day began early with cereal in a mug and loading up the truck. Th... Read more
05 2014 Erosion 39 baseline. Data from the detail surveys shows specific areas of the coastline to millimetre level accuracy; this was vital data in the investigation into coastal erosion. The West En... Read more
40 BIM Civil Engineering Surveyor B UILDING information modelling is frequently considered at single project level, which is totally understandable for a discrete building — a new build for a single c... Read more
05 2014 BIM 41 1 RAM (reliability, availability, maintainability), RAMS (plus safety), RAMSS (plus security) or PRAMS (plus performance).2 TED is the web library of concise technology, entertainment a... Read more
42 Airport Tales Civil Engineering Surveyor O NE of the biggest headaches that airport operators face in relation to aircraft safety is the maintenance of runway skid resistance values (SRV). Runways ... Read more
05 2014 Airport Tales 43 proceeded to follow us down the rapid exit taxiway en route to stand. Hans could see the aircraft right up behind us to the extent that ‘eye lids were batting at both ends of ... Read more
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05 2014 Data Protection 45 A key element of a building information modelling strategy is information management,supported by standards such as PAS 1192-2 (the specification for information management ... Read more
46 Data Protection Civil Engineering Surveyor IAO The existence of information assets (perhaps in a register) implies there are information asset owners (IAO). IAOs have local responsibility for manag... Read more
05 2014 Data Protection 47 Sharing How much is personal information about data subjects shared with other organisations, both inside the UK and elsewhere in the world? Data subjects could be members, ... Read more
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05 2014 TSA Focus 49 T HE title of this piece might be slightly misleading, as it does not involve any cats, dogs or indeed matchstalks. It does however give a hint to the location of The Survey Assoc... Read more
50 Classifieds/Where to Buy Civil Engineering Surveyor Open technology and standards-based solutions for sharing spatial data www.cadcorp.com Professional Development Mapping, Software & Data Surveys ... Read more
05 2014 Where to Buy/Subscriptions 51 Suppliers Survey Accessories Nikon-Trimble Co 16-2, Minamikamata 2-chome, Ota-ku, Tokyo 144-0035,Japan +1 3 5710 2592 www.nikon-trimble.com A1 Survey Sparks H... Read more
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05 2014 Profiles 53 Winn & Coales Densoband has been chosen for use in the installation of new crash barriers on the A898 Erskine Bridge, Glasgow. Currently, the existing barriers in the central reser... Read more
54 Recruitment Civil Engineering Surveyor Land Surveyor In line with our expansion programme, excellent opportunities have arisen for the right candidates to join our well established and professional... Read more
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