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A Day in the Life of a Surveyor

Chances are, at some point in your life, you passed a building site or an open lot and saw a person in a construction hat and vest, squinting at a box on top of a tripod. You probably wondered: what

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SB9 Surveying & Engineering Services

SB9, the California Housing Opportunity and More Efficiency (“HOME”) Act, facilitates the process for homeowners to subdivide their current residential lot or build a duplex. This bill signed by Governor Newsom on 9/16/2021 and effective 1/01/2022, mandates all cities and

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Water Conservation Design is Awarded State DROPS Grant
Innovation

Water Conservation Design is Awarded State DROPS Grant

U&R worked tirelessly with Artik Art and Architecture to convert the former Southern Lumber site in San Jose into a bright new school campus for Downtown College Prep Charter Schools. This included designing some very innovative stormwater conservation features. The

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Land Surveyors—More than just Mapmakers

Today’s land surveyors can do more than the standard topographic map, boundary survey, and construction staking. A land surveyor is an expert at measuring all types of things very accurately. With his total station, data collector, and computer he can

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