Civil Site Guy

Civil Engineer in the Delmarva area. Creating value through better planning and design.

[Civil Site Guy @CivilSiteGuy]

@3NDeveloper Wife's dealership (Lexus) comes and picks up the car for maintenance and drops off a loaner. Its an hour and a half away. It is really nice, but a bit unreliable. They had the car nearly a week last time for routine maintenance, and it came back with new scratches

[LandDeveloperGuy @subdivisionguy]

Pro tip for mental health in real estate: government workers don’t work like you do. Prepare yourself for a very arbitrary and capricious process in which the people controlling the future economic growth of thousands have no clue about economics. They also take one step per week. Don’t expect emails to be returned within 24 hours. If they are, they won’t have direct answers. Only more questions and problems which they need to “meet with” another department person “soon” to get more clarity. And a timeline? Forget it.

[Civil Site Guy @CivilSiteGuy]

Potential new client came in last week with 3 projects. She bought all properties with no due diligence. Awaiting a signed proposal, but my gut says only 1 is viable. And it's iffy.

Please don't spend hundreds of thousands of yours and investors' money without any due diligence

[Civil Site Guy @CivilSiteGuy]

@GrandTokamak Is it just the title making them upset? Or is it compensation/workload? I have found it is often times a combination of those items with one leading.

What is stopping you from providing them with the title? Is there a clear timeline and/or path you can give them to get there?

[Civil Site Guy @CivilSiteGuy]

@fortworthchris Parenting doesn't get easier. It is always just as hard but in different ways

[Civil Site Guy @CivilSiteGuy]

@loganzuber17 This looks like it's open space within the subdivision and not an actual lot. The planning and Zoning agency should not allow it to be developed without an adjustment to the overall plan which would require buy in from some percentage of the entire subdivision.

[Civil Site Guy @CivilSiteGuy]

@subdivisionguy Do you typically have any issues with drainage on the back to back units? Always seems to be a source of complaints when they're that close, but we have little separation to groundwater which tends to result in flatter swales/slopes. especially for slabs where dirt work $ adds up

[Civil Site Guy @CivilSiteGuy]

@subdivisionguy Hard to commit to that without survey. A survey of that size land would be a significant cost.

Does the county have any GIS information with parcel lines, rough topo, etc? If not, fastest thing to do is get a lidar drone out there. I probably would start with that anyway

[Civil Site Guy @CivilSiteGuy]

@subdivisionguy Likely even higher when considering perimeter buffers, wetlands and wetland buffers, or other code specific oddities

[Civil Site Guy @CivilSiteGuy]

@subdivisionguy We've had more consistent movement on new design contracts since the new year. But last year was slower on new contracts for civil design. Lots of proposals went out, maybe just were unlucky with who got the projects under contract last year

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

POV: You look over at the lead engineer during a sales pitch after the sales team just promised some shit that isn't even on the roadmap for the next 3 years

[Civil Site Guy @CivilSiteGuy]

@subdivisionguy 4% slopes for where? Grassed areas outside of the first 10'?

[Civil Site Guy @CivilSiteGuy]

@StudentRentPro Is this chapelfest?!?

[Civil Site Guy @CivilSiteGuy]

@GeringerAdam I can count on one hand the number of PLS I know under the age of 50.
There will always need to be some type of "boots on the ground" in surveying.
Not all contractors understand the GPS-integrated machinery limitations, and that can create expensive mistakes.
Good Luck!

[Civil Site Guy @CivilSiteGuy]

@subdivisionguy @FilledWithMoney My guess? Think of how much prices increased in those years for new construction and cars. The premiums didn't come up fast enough to cover it. Losing money in those years doesn't shock me. I would be curious to see if other agencies had similar results

[Civil Site Guy @CivilSiteGuy]

@subdivisionguy Another thing to keep in mind is that the number of licensed surveyors is small, and most of them are old. There are very few licensed surveyors under 40 around. There will be lots of opportunities available in the next 10 years

[Civil Site Guy @CivilSiteGuy]

@MattBrubakerNC @BigGreenEgg @providencerdu Better late than never! Merry Christmas!