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Surveying is the measurement and mapping of our surrounding environment using mathematics and specialised technology. Land surveyors are involved with a diverse variety of projects from land subdivision to tunnel building and major construction. Licensed or registered surveyors are experts in the profession who interpret and navigate legal aspects of land ownership. They also give advice and provide information to guide the work of engineers, architects and developers.
It’s the pinnacle of the surveying profession. They define, manage and protect the space around us. Becoming a licensed or registered surveyor is a career goal worth striving for – and there are plenty of reasons why.
Courses are available at TAFE and university level, and lead to varied technical and professional roles such as survey assistant or graduate surveyor. With further training, graduate surveyors can become a licensed or registered surveyor. Studying surveying involves a unique mix of learning opportunities with both theoretical and practical hands on field-work projects.
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Look out! Is that a bird? Or a plane? No… it’s a surveyor! While surveyors already think they are superheroes, it’s likely that the world at large might need a little bit more convincing. That’s why it is exciting to have a dedicated comic book series placing young surveyors-in-training in that hero position. GeoSquad highlights…
Making the leap from the high school classroom to the tertiary learning environment can be daunting. For one thing, there many differences between these two worlds. Additionally, at a tertiary level you are choosing just one or two specialist areas to focus your study efforts on. Until you’re attending your first week of university of…
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A global pandemic can’t keep surveyors down! For a profession that offers its workers such a wide variety of working environments – from indoors in the office to construction sites, rural areas, sea vessels and more – it isn’t surprising to see surveyors stepping back outdoors the first moment that they can. This goes just…
Surveying’s inpact on Australia can be measured all around us. Even on this website you can see just how inportant surveying has been in building Australia and the world up. In the past, it’s helped determine our state lines. Today, one of its many roles is to help determine property boundaries. In the future, it…
Here on this very website, we describe surveying as, “the measurement and mapping of our surrounding environment using mathematics, specialised technology and equipment”. But where does that leave alien environments? The surveyors of yesteryear were explorers of a kind, discovering foreign lands and mapping them as they went. Those documents proved invaluable records of our…
