Reminder: OneCall Webinar
April 13, 2021 - 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
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On Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., Ontario OneCall will be presenting on the importance of requesting underground utility locates prior to planting monumentation during a survey. The presentation will also include how a surveyor can obtain a locate and the dangers of planting monuments without a locate.
CPD Time: 1.0 Formal (Webinar) hour
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New Expropriation Guide
from: Ken Wilkinson, Examiner of Surveys
Regulatory Services Branch, Ministry of Government and Consumer Services
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Reminder: 7th Annual Boundary Law Conference
Complex Cadastral Problems: Searching for Solutions
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The Seventh Annual Boundary Law conference, Complex Cadastral Problems: Searching for Solutions, uses the perspective of "surveyor as expert witness" as an overall theme to address complex cadastral surveying scenarios using jurisprudence, legislation and legal principles in a changing environment. The event will be held on eight consecutive Wednesdays, starting April 7, as a series of weekly lunch and learn sessions via our interactive virtual meeting room.
This conference is a great way to earn 12 Formal Activity CPD hours. To register:
2. You will be redirected to the login page. If you have an account with Four Point Learning, log in with your username and password. If you have not already created an account, follow registration instructions.
3. Once you log in or click on the link in the confirmation email, you will automatically be directed to the enrolment page of the conference.
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CIG-YU - GeoTalks Series
Wednesday, April 7th @ 3:00 p.m.
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There is another GeoTalk event scheduled for next Wednesday, April 7 from 3:00 to 4:00 pm. The speaker is Joel Cumming, CTO of SkyWatch.
Information about the GeoTalks webinar series and details on how to register for next week's talk can be found on the following website
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Reminder: Engineering Drone Video of the Year Contest!
by: The Public Awareness Committee
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Do you have an original video of drone footage of an engineering or construction project? Enter the Engineering Drone Video of the Year Contest! Winner will be featured on the cover and featured article in Civil + Structural Engineer Digital Magazine.
Contest Rules: - Videos must be between 1:00 - 5:00 min in length
- All videos must be uploaded by April 30, 2021
- Contest is open to anyone who owns the rights to a drone video of original, legally obtained footage, focused on an engineering or construction project
- Three finalists will be selected by the readers of Civil + Structural Engineer between May 3rd and May 21st via online voting
- Only 3 videos may be submitted per applicant
- Your video will be used in Civil + Structural Engineer marketing with attribution
Details
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How Accurate Do You Need It?
This was one of the first questions I asked a prospective client when I started selling survey equipment in 1993. The crackly reply from the archeologist in Northern Alberta was an emphatic, "It needs to be dead-nuts." Having spent seven years in legal surveying in Ontario prior to this career move, I knew what dead nuts meant. At least I knew what it meant to me. It turns out that to an archeologist who needed to plot a Gorgosaurus femur on a 1:50,000 map, one metre was dead nuts. This set in motion my early education regarding accuracy (we can talk 'precision' over a pint) and it would change every conversation I would have with clients for the rest of my career.
Prior to my exchange with the archeologist, I carried - as many in the surveying industry might have - an air of smug superiority over professionals collecting positional data for mapping purposes. They were the Kardashians of the surveying world in my mind, fast and loose with the truth, more concerned with what things look like rather than where they are. I would locate a SIB to within a few millimetres, where a GIS person would locate (to within a metre) a fifteen metre sugar maple in good condition with a forty centimetre trunk diameter and ten metre dripline. Give me a break...it's a tree.
I was wrong about a lot of things in the 90s. I do enjoy marking my progress as a person by being wrong about different things each decade. It's not a goal... just an observation.
Okay.
Fast-forward to today, wetlands governance, utility locating (safety, efficiency, profitability) and the need to squeeze every bit of value from commercial and residential real estate property has put increasing pressure on the GIS/mapping professional. The demand for more accurate data has placed the mapping sector cheek to jowl with the surveying community. However, our mapping brethren have diverged in other ways. They are bringing their own devices to the field (Android and IOS) while running augmented reality software in the cloud (SiteVision). They are using on-demand correction services (Catalyst) with a location-enabled Android field Device+App to locate their assets. And they are pushing data to the cloud so colleagues in the office can start analyzing it in real time (TerraFlex). And, using Seafloor's HydroLite-DFX echo sounder our mapping clients can now "sound" through substrate to acquire true bottom topography of detention and storm water ponds and waterways. Stakeholders in the mapping industry are in the driver's seat now, putting demands on manufacturers and developers to create products that deliver more accurate and relative data the way they want it, how and when.
This is cutting edge stuff and although I am thrilled for what it means for the industry and our business, I am sadly forced to admit that the Kardashians have gone legit. ☹
Pat Hills
Director, Technical Marketing
Cansel
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Humber Summer Students Available
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Dear Friends of Humber,
We hope that you, family and staff are safe and well.
Although this global pandemic is affecting us all, we are reaching out to you today for your support with our students. We have co-op and work placement students in our Built Environment programs including Architectural, Civil, Sustainable Energy & Building Technology, Construction Engineering Technology and Building Construction Technician that are available for the summer starting in May. (4- and 8-month work terms depending on program.)
Students have real skills to offer your organization. They can draft and design (AutoCAD, Revit), read blueprints, survey, estimate, perform energy audit, assist with project coordination and safely operate tools to name a few! They are familiar with the Ontario Building Code as well as Health & Safety protocols.
We are proud to share some recent success stories:
Hiring Students or Graduates
Please contact me to discuss your hiring needs. For more information on programs, hiring incentives available or click here to post a positon directly in our job posting system-Career Connect. In addition to students and graduates from the disciplines listed above, we also have students in our Post Graduate Project Management program who are available year-round for contract or full-time opportunities.
Virtual Career Events
Are you interested in promoting your opportunity to students in specific programs? We are hosting smaller virtual events on Thursdays, 1:30pm-2:30pm for the month of April. Please contact me to schedule the next available time!
Janet Maycenic, B.A.
Employment Advisor
Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology
Work Placement Services Office, Room NX302
Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
205 Humber College Blvd., Toronto, ON M9W 5L7
Tel: 416-675-6622 Ext. 4169
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