Construction surveying

About: Construction surveying is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 78 publications have been published within this topic receiving 722 citations.

Learning building pathology using computers - evaluation of a prototype application

Abstract: Building surveying employers are requiring graduates with a high level of cognitive and experiential skills to enable them to survey buildings directly after graduation with little or no supervision.This has led to a change in thinking for educators as providing this type of graduate requires learning and training material that is time‐consuming and costly to provide, as it requires learners to be actively involved in real surveying tasks. This paper presents the results of a prototype application developed to enable inexperienced surveyors to learn building pathology without leaving their desktops.

Imparting Work Based Skills on Vocational Courses, Pedagogy of Using Industrial Simulation in Surveying Education

Abstract: The paper relates to delivering vocational higher education to prospective building surveyors. Preparing students for the workplace requires inclusion of academic knowledge, workplace skills and practical vocational experience. This is reinforced by feedback from the four stakeholders to surveying education, learner, employer, education provider and professional institution. Successful delivery of learning to distinct vocational groups requires specific pedagogy. The paper analyses a realistic industrial simulation delivered to teach knowledge and skills to undergraduate building surveying students. Initial pedagogy was proposed by CEEBL, Centre for Excellence in Enquiry Based Learning. Work based skills requirements were taken from published work including leading building surveying academics and practitioners like Professor Mike Hoxley and Professor Malcolm Hollis. Data analysis is used to evolve future simulations. These become better suited to delivering appropriate learning, valid assessment and usable vocational skills, against academic, student focused and industrial criteria. An action research approach is utilised by the author to develop specialist pedagogy through analysis of outcome data and stakeholder feedback. Action research is undertaken through an approach using trial, evaluation and development. The paper concludes, simulation can be a valid tool for delivering teaching, learning, assessment and vocational skills training to surveying students and justifies further research.

Establishing method for plateau long-distance large engineering surveying control system

Abstract: The invention discloses an establishing method for a plateau long-distance large engineering surveying control system. The establishing method comprises the steps that firstly, a large trunk canal control net is established to unify engineering surveying frameworks; then, a plurality of building control nets are established to meet the precision requirements of construction of corresponding buildings; finally, the trunk canal control net and the building control nets are effectively linked, and integral construction surveying control is formed. The method is oriented to plateau long-distance large engineering construction, a high-precision surveying and mapping guarantee is provided, the integral design and unified deployment of engineering are achieved, and the precise engineering surveying control system is established; design, construction, construction management and supervision maintenance along the line of engineering are carried out under the framework with unified precision and standards.