Seeing U&R’s Robotic Total Station (RTS) in action is like watching a scene from a Star Wars science fiction movie. This elaborate land surveying equipment uses lasers to automatically locate, focus on, measure and record exact distances between two objects.
Recent landslides threatened the road encircling Angel Island, a beautiful state park in San Francisco Bay. This road is vital for recreational activities and maintaining the park. Surveying on the island can be expensive and time-consuming, given the logistics of
Challenges: Franklin-McKinley School District (FMSD) needed to build the new Ramblewood Park Elementary School on five acres. Most California schools have ten. Complicating matters more, the land has hills and unusual boundary shape. Overflowing enrollment in existing neighborhood schools makes
Watch out Pixar! The newest entrant into the 3-D animation field is none other than…U&R. We use computer technology to create unprecedented realistic views for our clients of future construction projects. They see what it will be like to stand
It’s the “civil” that makes “civil engineering” different from other types of engineering in the construction field. Civil engineers address not only the laws of nature (such as physics), but also the nature of the community. Certainly, civil engineers need
Regularly taking computers into the field, U&R needed to establish an office for our surveyors at each project site. True to our commitment to finding creative solutions for our customers, we transformed a van into what may be the first