The Surveyors Association of West Jersey will have its monthly dinner meeting 7PM this Thursday November 8th, 2018 At Carlucci’s Waterfront located in Mt . Laurel NJ. SAWJ welcomes Brian Shaw, Flood Plane Manager from Smart Vent Products Inc. as our guest speaker for this meeting.
SURVEYORS’ ASSOCIATION OF WEST JERSEY
October 11, 2018
MINUTES OF MEETING
Carlucci’s Waterfront
876 Centerton Road, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
President Bill Haggerty called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm. Mr. Haggerty asked the membership present to go around the room and make introductions.
The floor was turned over to tonight’s speaker.
SPEAKER
The speakers tonight Kevin Zelinsky and Chip Adamson from Remington and Vernick Engineers. The topic discussed tonight is the interoperability between GIS and CAD and how to benefit the surveyors.
The speakers discussed the elements and concepts of GIS and demonstrated how GIS software and CAD software can be used together to form a useful planning and analysis tool. They demonstrated how GIS is used for the planning of survey and engineering projects.
A topic of concern for some members was the use of metadata in
GIS projects and how to interpret metadata in projects. The speakers discussed the need for clear and concise metadata so that anyone using the GIS components have a knowledge of how that data was obtained, and what type of project the data was intended. Most have to be aware that all data will not fit all types of standards.
Kevin and Chip shared live demonstrations of the GIS databases they have built for different clients and how surveyed field data is integrated into these databases, as well as publicly obtained data. Their presentation pieces will be made available to the SAWJ membership via the website and email.
Questions were asked throughout the presentation.
The presentation concluded at 8:50 pm.
BUSINESS MEETING
MINUTES
The September meeting minutes were approved by voice vote.
TREASURER REPORT
Treasurer, Richard Sapio presented the following financial report, dated October 8, 2018.
Checking $XXXX
Savings $XXXX
Duck $XXXX
Scholarship $XXXX
TOTAL $XXXX
SAWJ has made a donation to the American Heart Association in honor of Elena McAllister, wife of Glen O. McAllister, who passed away on October 1, 2018 in the amount of $60.00. Glen McAllister is a P.L.S. with Pennoni and Associates and a member of SAWJ and PLS of South Jersey. Along with the monetary donation, SAWJ members send their condolences.
DIRECTOR’S REPORT
Director Charles Adamson handed out his report to the membership. The Board of Directors met on September 25, 2018. Copies of that report will be made available upon request.
OLD BUSINESS
There was no old business.
NEW BUSINESS
NJSPLS has made a donation in the amount of $5000 to aid surveyors affected by the recent storms. SAWJ made a motion to make a similar donation in the amount of $250.00. The motion was seconded and passed by voice-vote. The chapter will notify Joe Dolan, Mark Husik and Rona Goldberg about the donation.
Award nominations for NJSPLS must be in by October 31, 2018.
CLOSING
At 9:00 pm it was moved to adjourn the business meeting; seconded, and approved by voice-vote.
Craig Stratton, Recording Secretary
The Surveyors Association of West Jersey will have its monthly dinner meeting 7PM this Thursday October 11, 2018 At Carlucci’s Waterfront located in Mt . Laurel NJ. SAWJ welcomes Kevin Zelinsky and Chip Adamson from Remington & Vernick Engineers as our guest speaker for this meeting.
The topics for the discussion will discuss:
“Interoperability between GIS and CAD with ArcGIS Enterprise Hosting Services for the Prudent Surveyor”
• Define elements and concepts of GIS
• Demonstrate interoperability between GIS and CAD systems
• Demonstrate implementations of GIS in land surveying projects
• Demonstrate examples of GIS utilizing ArcGIS Enterprise Hosting Services
• Metadata
SURVEYORS’ ASSOCIATION OF WEST JERSEY
September 14, 2018
MINUTES OF MEETING
Carlucci’s Waterfront 876 Centerton Road, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
Treasurer Rick Sapio called the meeting to order at 7:05 pm. Mr. Sapio asked the membership present to go around the room and make introductions.
The floor was turned over to tonight’s speaker.
SPEAKER
The speakers tonight were Althanasios Georgiadis (Thanasi) and Perry Stavridis civil engineers with WSP USA Inc. (formerly Parsons Brinckerhoff). The topic tonight was the survey and design of ADA compliant handicap ramps.
The gentlemen began with introducing the membership to the design requirements for ramps under the American with Disabilities Act. There are many requirements for design on ramps that are used for pedestrian walkways at street intersections. Most ramps today are not ADA compliant, which is why many state and local governments are replacing these intersection ramp.
Discussions were held regarding different aspects of the ramps, including the Detectable Warning System, which is placed at the intersections per the ADA requirements to act as a “stop sign” for the impaired.
Mr. Georgiadis and Mr. Stavridis focused their discussion of design to how it relates to the surveying profession. There were many questions asked by the membership of what engineers expect from the surveyors who provide the data on existing conditions in order to have a compliant design. Most of the membership agreed that data points must be above and beyond what may by minimally requested in order to create a design that not only is ADA compliant but does not negatively impact storm water runoff. Members of SAWJ asked that when engineers prepare a scope of services bid request for these jobs that they allow for the surveyor to provide all necessary work.
Questions were asked throughout the presentation.
The presentation concluded at 9:50 pm.
BUSINESS MEETING
MINUTES
There were no minutes for the August meeting.
TREASURER REPORT
Treasurer, Richard Sapio presented the following financial report, dated September 13, 2018.
Checking $XXXXXX
Savings $XXXXXX
Duck $XXXXXX
Scholarship $XXXXXX
TOTAL $XXXXXXX
DIRECTOR’S REPORT
Director Charles Adamson informed the membership that he would have a director’s report following the next business meeting for NJSPLS.
OLD BUSINESS
There was no old business.
NEW BUSINESS
There was no new business.
CLOSING
At 9:55 pm it was moved to adjourn the business meeting; seconded, and approved by voice-vote.
Craig Stratton, Recording Secretary
We’ve all seen the newly constructed handicap ramps being constructed over the last few years mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act (Law). Join us on Thursday September 13th for this informative discussion on what drives the design of these ramps and how many of the ramps being built today don’t meet existing requirements. Find out what existing key features are needed to be located to design new ramps and how these ramps impact right of way.
SAWJ welcomes back Athanasios Georgiadis (Thanasi) from WSP USA Inc. (formerly Parsons Brinckerhoff) and Perry Stavridis to update us on this interesting topic. This was presented in Feb. of 2015 and was one of the top presentations of that year. Your sure to come away from this presentation with a new perspective. Looking forward to seeing you.
Carlucci’s Waterfront
Carlucci’s Waterfront
876 Centerton Road, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
7:00- 9PM
Cost $35
The Surveyors Association of West Jersey will have its monthly meeting 7PM this Thursday August 9, 2018 At Carlucci’s Waterfront located in Mt . Laurel NJ. SAWJ welcomes back Ed Pagan Esquire as our guest speaker for this meeting.
Ed has presented numerous times for the chapter and always provides knowledge and insight to the practicing land surveyor. Come out and join us for this interesting discussion .
Ed will be discussing Topics dealing with Land Surveyors , Affidavit of Merit , Lot Mergers and contract issues , etc.
Ed Pagan, Jr. is a NJ Attorney and managing Member of Pagan Affiliates, LLC in Lambertville NJ. With a combined legal background spanning 40 years , his practice addressed, among other legal disciplines, boundary, construction, contracts , architect, engineer and land surveyor and attorney professional liability , insurance coverage, land titles, floodplains, infrastructure development and municipal land use law. 
The Surveyors Association of West Jersey will have its monthly dinner meeting this Thursday July12th, 2018, 7PM At Carlucci’s Waterfront located in Mt . Laurel NJ, Cost $35. Our speaker for this meeting will be Retired National Geodetic Survey expert Bill Henning. 
Practical RTK procedures and checks for today’s practitioners.
Some of the Topics that will be covered
NGS Coordinate Conversion and Transformation Tool (NCAT).
Supercedes Geocon11, NADCON 5.0
• VERTCON 3.0
• New OPUS-P format to replace Bluebooking
• New NSRS database to update NGSIDB
• VDATUM
New geometric and geopotential datums
(NATRF2022, NAPGD2022)
• DS WORLD
• WINTEQC
• GPS ON BM Campaign
Bill will also be talking on comparing & contrasting static (OPUS, user processed) vs. real-time (RTN,RTK) vs. ppp methods for GNSS control.
The Surveyors Association of West Jersey will have its monthly meeting this Thursday June 14th, 2018 At Carlucci’s Waterfront located in Mt . Laurel NJ. Our speaker for this meeting will be Dr. Ing. Ricardo Passini from BAE Systems.
“AN ACCURACY STUDY OF DSMs GENERATED FROM UAS IMAGERY AS COMPARED WITH THOSE GENERATED FROM MOBILE LiDAR SCANNERS”
The outline of the presentation will be:
SURVEYORS’ ASSOCIATION OF WEST JERSEY
May 10, 2018
MINUTES OF MEETING
Carlucci’s Waterfront 876 Centerton Road, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
President Bill Haggerty called the meeting to order at 7:01 pm. Mr. Haggerty asked the membership present to go around the room and make introductions.
The floor was turned over to tonight’s speaker.
SPEAKER
The speaker tonight was Bruce Blair, P.LS. and P.P. The topic was Forensic Surveying. Mr. Blair introduced the membership to the field of Forensic Surveying. He discussed how surveyors can become part of Boundary Line Commissions, and how those commissions can be created. NJSA 13:40-5 is the statute which describes the Boundary Line Commissions and its uses in the courts.
Per Mr. Blair, the commission would be created to settle boundary disputes, issue reports to be filed with the superior court and offer suggestions to resolution. The chancery judge in a particular area will appoint the commission.
Mr. Blair’s lecture also included the preparation of forensic surveys as part of court cases. He gave may examples of how to meet the needs of the client’s and give expert testimony.
Discussion was held and questions were asked throughout the presentation. The presentation concluded at 8:55 pm.
BUSINESS MEETING
MINUTES
There were no minutes for April, 2018.
TREASURER REPORT
The total money in the SAWJ account is XXXXXXXX Detailed report was not available. A motion to approve the treasurer’s report was made and seconded. Passed by voice vote.
DIRECTOR’S REPORT
Director Charles Adamson issued his report by giving handouts to the membership. NSPS has started a website to attract new people to the profession. www.beasurveyor.com
A complete list of the Director’s Report items can be obtained upon request.
OLD BUSINESS
David Doyle was the presenter at the March Meeting. SAWJ thanks Mr. Doyle for his contributions.
NJSPLS has asked each chapter to purchase a table at the upcoming awards banquet on June 2, 2018. A motion was made to approve the purchase of a table by SAWJ. The motion was seconded and approved by unanimous vote. SAWJ plans to open it up to members who wish to go. They can go for free and sit at the SAWJ table.
NEW BUSINESS
Bill Robins of Robins Surveying has suffered a stroke and is in a rehabilitation center. His firm is a small firm and they are asking for help to keep going while Bill recovers. The membership of SAWJ has agreed to send a card and fruit basked.
NJSPLS Newsletter recently featured a new article by Bill Henning. The membership was encouraged to read Mr. Henning’s article.
The Professional Development Hours fee needs to be renewed to the state board. A motion was made to pay the fee, seconded and passed by unanimous vote.
The next speaker for the meeting on June 14 will be Ricardo Pasine with BAE.
CLOSING
At 9:31 pm it was moved to adjourn the business meeting; seconded, and approved by voice-vote.
Craig Stratton, Recording Secretary
SAWJ is honored to have Bruce Blair, PLS, as our guest speaker at our May 10th meeting .Mr. Blair has over 50 years in all phases of surveying, including- cadastral, hydrographic and aerial. He will discuss the Boundary Line Commission a well as talk about forensic surveying and the responsibility of a forensic surveyor with regards to the courts. Mr. Blair will discuss the affidavit of merit and its purpose and also the activities after you are retained as an expert.
An experienced surveyor is often called upon by an attorney or a title company to opine on the merits, or lack thereof, of various surveying properties. If it is a legal issue and may result in an action at court, it is then properly referred to as a Forensic Survey. Lately most have taken this to mean an accident survey or other criminal activity where scanners and lidar and other high-tech procedures are involved. While this is often the case, it is not the basics. A forensic surveyor must be able to understand the title aspects of ownership and possession as any other surveyor. They are often called upon to position the accident or occurrence on or in front of properties so that proper liability may be determined. This usually involves reviewing material from other surveyors and either supporting or contesting their findings. In some cases it is the “policing of the profession”. Mr. Blair will discuss various cases and whether or not he has accepted them or rejected them. There are also times when you refer them to responsible surveyors due to conflicts of interest. Come prepared to ask questions but keep them civil 😊