Spring 2011    
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Water Drop

Aaron Shires, Nick Miguez and David Jones of McKim & Creed set up the robotic total station and establish control points to measure the track, which circled the perimeter of the exhibit hall twice.


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Setting World Records, One Survey at a Time  
Dolphin Tales  
Precise engineering and creative design saves money and reduces public disruption

Setting World Records, One Survey at a Time

It's every five year old boy's dream - the world's longest model railroad! On Saturday, April 23, the model railroaders of the Wilmington (N.C.) Railroad Museum set a world record for running the longest model train. McKim & Creed surveyors provided the measurements that will document the event in the Guinness World Records®. The record to beat was set in Hamburg, Germany in 2008. To qualify for new world record, Wilmington's train had to exceed 892 feet, 3 inches in length, and travel at least 630 feet without assistance and under its own power. Want to see how they did it?

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Dolphin Tales

Winter the dolphin may be Clearwater, Florida's, biggest star. The Atlantic Bottlenose dolphin has been written up in newspapers and magazines, and featured on the Today show, the Early Morning show, and the BBC. Thousands of people have traveled to Clearwater to visit her. And on September 23, her remarkable life story will reach a global audience when "Dolphin Tale," a film starring Morgan Freeman, Harry Connick, Jr., Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson and, of course, Winter, is released. To why this up and coming star has made such an impact
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Precise engineering and creative design saves money and reduces public disruption

The City of Raleigh, a utility that provides water and wastewater services to over 450,000 people, had a strong desire to find the most effective, reliable and economical solution to sanitary sewer overflows and infiltration/inflow. This led them away from the construction of a pump station and equalization basin with a very long force main. Officials recognized that this scenario, slated for a highly developed area, could become a public nuisance and may not be as effective in reducing the risk of an SSO as a gravity sewer alternative. The project team completed a study that resulted in gravity sewer alternative. The gravity sewer solution presented a new set of engineering challenges, requiring a high level of above- and below-ground survey and SUE, further supported by environmental investigations.
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