Stories

As soon as the words left his mouth, Kienan Gridley acknowledged the popularity of the phrase ‘you can’t manage what you don’t measure,’ to explain the importance of making data-driven decisions for livestock nutrition.

When it comes to cutting to the chase, it would seem Herb Jacob had few equals. After all, Jacob, the founder of Ajax Paving, selected the name “Ajax” solely because he knew it would appear at the top of phone book listings of paving companies.

Florida is all about the master planned community. From its numerous Del Webb developments to Jimmy Buffet’s Latitude Margaritaville sites to the nearly 85,000 resident, three zip code-large grandaddy of them all, The Villages, MPCs are driving Florida’s non-stop growth.

There is a sense of urgency that drives most any airport resurfacing effort. Airport operations, generally time-sensitive, rely on contractors to respect that fact.

With the introduction of the total station more than a half-century ago, the surveyor’s dream of capturing distance and angle measurements using a single instrument was realized. Gone (for the most part) was the need for stringline, tape measure, and the lengthy processes they demanded.

Dwarfed by the adjacent Eglin Air Force Base (the world’s largest airbase) and nowhere near as famous as nearby Pensacola Naval Air Station (home to the world-famed Blue Angels), Hurlburt Field in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida is nonetheless a key component in our national defense structure.

In a construction business environment that increasingly demands speed and efficiency from its players, the onus is on contractors to meet those demands — and they are doing so in a range of new and differing ways.

Establishing benchmarks, perhaps one of the most valuable, yet understated, services a surveyor performs, is a practice dating back to the 19th century. Its very name has worked its way into the vernacular as something by which other things are measured.