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Event Report: Leica Geosystems High Definition Surveying Conference

HDS practitioners trade tips and tricks.

Oct 30, 2008 By: Kenneth Wong

The presentations and conversations overheard at Leica Geosystems HDS and Airborne Sensor Worldwide User Conference this week indicated high-definition surveying (HDS) is dramatically reshaping the function of the surveyors. Now, equipped with a portable device that lets them capture a highway intersection or an archeological site as a 3D scene in point clouds with unprecedented speed and accuracy, surveyors have become the custodians of a vast amount of as-built data, a new role that offers both optimism and uneasiness. Along with business opportunities come new questions: How do you market the new deliverables to your clients? How do you repackage the deliverables to offer the best value to your clients? In what types of projects does HDS offer the most benefit?

On Monday, October 27, enthusiasts, practitioners, and beneficiaries of the technology streamed into the Marriott Hotel in San Ramon, California, to trade business cards, share tips, and recount war stories.

New Project Breaks Ground

By ARIN MIKAILIAN 18.OCT.07 

(From left) City Council President Eric Garcetti, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce President Leron Gubler, CRA Regional Administrator Leslie Lambert, Associate Executive Director of Covenant House Sylvia LaMalfa and Division President of JPI West Stephen Dominiak prepare to ceremonially break ground at the Jefferson at Hollywood.

Developers and hopeful politicians gathered at the desolate parking lot a few hundred feet from the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue on Monday to initiate the construction of a cross between retail and residential spaces.  

The 270-unit mixed-use complex, dubbed Jefferson at Hollywood, is the brainchild of developer JPI who had been eyeing the empty lot encapsulated between the corner of Hollywood and Highland as well as McCadden Avenue and Yucca Avenue.

NoHo Commons Third Phase Breaks Ground

Mayor Villaraigosa, Councilmember LaBonge, CRA/LA, J.H. Snyder Break Ground on $79.4M Third Phase of NoHo Commons

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Councilmember Tom LaBonge and local public officials along with the J.H. Snyder Company and Laemmle Theatres, had their ground breaking ceremony on March 24 for the third and final phase of the NoHo Commons project. The $79.4 million third phase, located on nearly three acres at the corner of Lankershim and Weddington, will include a new Laemmle theater, a Class A office complex and a family diner.

Left to right  Councilmember Tom LaBonge, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Cecilia V. Estolano, CRA/LA’s Chief Executive Officer, Clifford Goldstein, Senior Partner J.H. Snyder Company  PHOTO BY: Daniel Debevoise