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| NJSPLS creates awareness for the profession at the NJSCA fall conference
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By John Beattie, PLS, NJSPLS Vice President
On Friday, September 29th, NJSPLS members Carl Peters, Ambrose Gmeiner, John D. Beattie, James Heiser, and Adam Grant along with Executive Director Mark Husik and Dr. Laramie Potts of NJIT exhibited at the NJ School Counselor Association’s Fall Conference. This turned out to be a tremendous opportunity to increase the visibility of our organization and our profession. We met with hundreds of high school guidance counselors who were excited to hear about the diversity of opportunities in our field. Many have invited us to come and give presentations to their students about our profession. This will become an annual event as part of our continuing strategy to create awareness about the surveying profession and NJSPLS.
| Deadline to Register for CST Exam is October 6th
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NJSPLS
Do you have technicians in your firm who would like to become Certified Survey Technicians (CST)? This designation gives important and needed recognition to survey technicians, while providing objectives for improvement for field and office technicians.
NJSPLS is sponsoring the CST Examination for Levels 1, 2 and 3 on Saturday, October 21 at the Clarion in Toms River. The registration for this exam is a TWO-STEP process. You will need to register with NJSPLS (click here) and also register with NSPS by going to http://www.nsps.us.com and search for the CST application link that is located under the PROGRAMS header.
But don't delay, NSPS needs time to produce and send us the exams. Registration will close for this session on Friday, October 6.
Remember you need to sign up with both NJSPLS and NSPS.
Houston Chronicle
More than 20 years before Hurricane Harvey, officials in suburban Houston were aware that a heavy storm could cause a reservoir to overflow and inundate nearby homes with water. So they issued a warning to potential home buyers.
But they put the warning in an obscure place: deep in the same public land records that list street dimensions and the layout of utilities in a subdivision.
Now many of the 3,000 suburban Houston homeowners who were flooded during Harvey question whether local officials did enough to caution them about the dangers of flooding from big rainstorms.
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Thinking about getting more efficient, want to be more productive? Take an opportunity to learn about the Stars software platform built for land surveying companies. It could allow you to get better results quickly in Q4 and position your team/company for big results in 2018. Click here to register for a free informational demonstration at www.anymeeting.com/surveystars.
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NJSPLS CALENDAR:
- October 21 - CST Testing, Clarion, Toms River
- January 31 - February 2, 2018: SurvCon 2018 at Ballys in Atlantic City
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Construction DIVE
The construction industry and lawmakers alike are awaiting final details of President Donald Trump's $1 trillion infrastructure plan. The only specifics that have been publicized so far are that the administration wants to kick off the program with $200 billion of direct spending, which is intended to spur enough private investment to cover the remainder.
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By Lucy Wallwork
 The transformational power of urbanism has captured the imagination of policymakers around the world in recent years. Yet too many planning departments still resort to old top-down ways of thinking — the modernist quest for the drive-in utopia. While former British colonies in Africa and Asia are struggling to break out of the blueprint, some cities in Latin America have been at the center of attention. The region has become something of an urbanism laboratory.
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The American Surveyor
Nonresidential construction spending expanded 0.5 percent in August, totaling $691.8 billion on a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis, according to an analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau by Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC). Though this represents an improvement from July's total ($688.2 billion), nonresidential spending remains 3.4 percent below its year-ago level and is down 3.8 percent from the cyclical peak attained in May 2017.
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CT Post
As Connecticut scrambles to find new revenue to plug deficits and resolve an ongoing budget stalemate, neighboring states are bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars a year from highway tolls.
An Office of Legislative Research report issued this month shows that Massachusetts garnered $395 million from tolls last year, while New York State pocketed $708 million and Maine took in $133 million.
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No matter what the future holds, prepare to meet challenges head on. Future-proof your resume by becoming a Certified Survey Technician (CST). This unique four-level certification program indicates official recognition by NSPS that a person can perform surveying tasks at a specific technical level.
Show what you can do! Decide between the field or office track. Visit www.nsps.us.com for details.
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Did you know that there are more than 1,700 active CSTs in the United States?
The American Surveyor
Topcon Positioning Group announces updates to its Delta Solutions deformation monitoring system including software management improvements and advanced modular configurations.
"Since the launch of Delta Solutions at Intergeo 2016, we have seen many systems installed and successfully operated across Europe and North America," said Ian Stilgoe, vice president Europe GeoPositioning Solutions for Topcon Positioning Group.
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