Site Surveying

Site surveying is important in construction career. Throughout this subject, I am able to develop understanding of construction surveying principles. Furthermore, I am able to understand the basic skills of surveying work and able to develop skills in using construction surveying instrument. I also learn how to collect field work notes and analyze the data collected. Besides that, I am able to explain about basic surveying computations.

My impression to this subject is mostly theory at start but I am wrong. These subject includes many calculation part which is advantage for me as I am confident in my mathematics skills. Generally, most topic is easy for me except for the theory part of this subject. The theory part includes many things to memorize such as the type of instrument and the definition of the topics.

However, our lecturer, Mr. Wong, have lead us in conducting some simple field work such as leveling and traverse survey. After the field work is done, I develop some understanding of how the instrument is use and the procedure of the field work. Besides that, we are require to submit a report of particular field work as it will increase our knowledge of the field work. Throughout learning this subject, I have gain knowledge of typical type of survey and some construction knowledge.

I am measuring the readings for leveling survey

I am holding the leveling staff plumb