Field Surveying

On the greenway project at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, described under Transportation, Mr. Parnell laid out the corridor traverse and used field surveying to perform the preliminary geomatics that fixed the trail alignment. The traverse carried control along the roughly eight-mile route, and the fieldwork located the constraints the alignment had to thread — waterway crossings, roadway crossings, utility conflicts, buildings, and training areas — so that the design alignment could be set against measured positions rather than mapped approximations.

At Paton/Zucchino & Associates in Raleigh, Mr. Parnell performed field surveying on several land-development projects for terrain mapping and wetland location. Terrain mapping supplied the topographic base — spot elevations, breaklines, and contours — on which subdivision lots, streets, grading, and drainage were laid out; wetland location tied the flagged wetland boundaries into that same base so that lot lines and improvements could be held clear of jurisdictional areas.

For Atlantis Developers, the brownfield site evaluations along the Cape Fear River in Wilmington, described under Environmental, included field surveying of the candidate parcels. Field survey confirmed parcel extents and river frontage, located existing structures, fill, and visible evidence of past use, and provided the measured base on which the candidate sites were compared.