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LandTech Announces Civil Engineering Services in Knoxville and East Tennessee Region

We’re happy to announce as of July 2013 LandTech is offering civil engineering design as part of our professional services, and we’re excited about serving the land development community in the Knoxville and East Tennessee region.

Our civil engineering design services will include Land Development Design, Land Surveys and Mapping, Erosion and Sediment Control, Site Layout Planning and Design, Roadway Plan and Profiles, Grading Plans, Stormwater Management, Domestic Water and Sanitary Sewer Utilities, and Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPP) and Associated Permits.

In future blog posts, we’ll describe our civil engineering design services in more detail.

If you’re planning a land development project in the Knoxville or East Tennessee region and need civil engineering design services, or if you have questions about our professional service offerings, we are happy to discuss your project and ways we can help you. Here is the contact link from our company website: http://www.landtechco.com/contact_us.

Jay Lewis Civil Engineering, Knox County, Knoxville, LandTech News, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Vivax-Metrotech Pipe and Cable Locator

LandTech recently acquired a Vivax-Metrotech vLockPro2 underground cable and pipe locator. The system comes with a hand-held receiver and 5 watt transmitter, and works in both passive and inductive modes.  Passive mode works best for locating live buried electric lines, and inductive mode is used when searching for buried metallic cables and pipes, or nonmetallic pipes with tracer wires. We have been able to use the equipment on three jobs now, and we are very impressed with its capabilities. We were able to confirm underground utilities shown by KUB and City of Knoxville Engineering Department records, and we also accurately located private underground service lines for our clients’ projects.

We have nothing but good things to say about the folks at Tracer Electronics in Mt. Juliet, TN, our Metrotech dealer. If you are interested in knowing more about this particular equipment, check out the Vivax-Metrotech website:

http://www.vivax-metrotech.com/productshow.asp?id=63

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It’s software upgrade time

I have chosen this weekend to upgrade LandTech’s engineering design and surveying software. We use Carlson running on IntelliCad 7.2, and we are going from Carlson Civil Suite 2013 to the 2014 version, which we have on four computers, two office desktop computers and two laptops for use in the field.

As far as the surveying features go, I think the changes are incremental, but version 2013 seemed a little more buggy than version 2012, and the previous one we used, version 2009.

So far, the upgrade is going slowly, mainly because the new 2014 version doesn’t seem to want to properly load LandTech’s CAD user interface profile (.arg file) that we saved from the prior version. I am having to arrange the toolbars and toolbuttons, and set all the CAD settings manually.

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• LandTech surveys lakefront property for auction

LandTech recently completed a survey and division of two large parcels on Norris Lake in Sharp’s Chapel, Union County, Tennessee for East Tennessee Realty & Auction Co., which included location of the 1020 and 1044 countours and subdividing the property into eight large tracts. If you are interested in attending the auction, you may learn more by clicking on the link below.

http://landtechco.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Fred_Davis_1.207162842.pdf

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LandTech provides serveying services for auction in Sharp’s Chapel, Tennessee

LandTech recently completed a survey and division of a thirty-six acre parcel in beautiful Sharp’s Chapel, Tennessee for East Tennessee Realty & Auction Co. Facing a tight deadline, LandTech divided the property into two equal tracts and completed the survey in time for the client to market the property for auction on July 16, 2011. If you are interested in attending the auction, you may learn more by clicking on the headline above or by clicking here.

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Welcome to LandTech’s New Blog!

Welcome to the LandTech’s Blog! It is intended to be a place for us to post our thoughts, happenings, interesting pictures and descriptions of our surveying and engineering projects , as well a way for our clients and others interested in the land development, civil engineering and land surveying businesses.

It won’t all be strictly business, though. We will post about interesting news, events, sports and other cultural aspects about Knoxville, surrounding East Tennessee, and our beloved almae matres, the University of Tennessee Volunteers and the East Tennessee State University Buccaneers!

Also, feel free to ask any questions you have about the subjects described above. We will do our best to give informative (or at least amusing) responses!

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