Modern Surveying Tools: Surveyor Lists Integrating Strategies

A land surveyor, Dr.
    Lazarus Mustapha, has highlighted strategies that will bring solution to modern engineering and environmental challenges.
Mustapha who made this known while presenting a paper titled “Integrating modern surveying tools with the project team” in a forum in Port Harocurt said that the relevant fields in the built environment must be harnessed towards effective project delivery.
He said there is a paradigm shift from ‘I can do it alone; to, we can do it together, pointing out that advances in technology have brought about the need for collaborations for robust solutions.
“In order to effectively integrate the modern surveying tools with the project team, the efficient use of modern surveying tools such as Global Navigation satellite system receivers, Mobile GIS and Location based information system, Electronic Total Station and Terrestrial laser scanner among others should be emphasised.
“Such emphasis should be very visible in areas like pre-project surveying and maping, during project surveys and mapping (monitoring), post-project surveys and maintenance surveys and Geospatial Database management (long-term)”, he said.
He said that professional surveyors or Geomaticians should be among the project team alongside quantity surveyors, civil engineers, Architects, among others.
According to him, this should discourage the implementation of the surveying contents in a project as supplementary part of project, rather than being considered as one of the core components.
“Spatial measurements and database on land information, geographic information among others should be adopted and integrated.

Corlins Walter