although in one sense we are starting
out, we have over 600 employees and
the support and technical know-how
of our legacy companies.”
Providing geospatial technology,
survey and pre-planning, this newly
defined company has employees that
have been working with the piling
industry for a long time. Ettinger said,
“We have extensive experience with
surveying deep foundations from
cast-in-place piles to driven to screw
– and then foundation work once it’s
out of the ground. We can provide pre-
calculations, quality control checks
and survey site control.”
The pile driving industry has relied
on an understanding of the earth’s surface
and what lies below for more than
a 1,000 years, back to when the earliest
builders were physically driving timber
piles into the ground to strengthen
their bridges and fortifications. With
today’s rapidly expanding improvements
in specialized software and
equipment, predicting and measuring
geotechnical resistance with incredible
accuracy is now available at the touch
of a finger on a computer screen.
That’s where the expertise of
GeoVerra can make the difference with
its ability to measure and interpret geospatial
data in land surveying, remote
sensing and geographic information
systems. The incredible advances in
computer science and software engineering
of the past 25 years have made
geospatial data key to information and
insight for every industry around the
world, and no less in foundation construction.
Having the right information
at the right time is critical.
“One thing that sets GeoVerra apart
is that we are larger than most survey
and geomatics companies, yet operate
within an atmosphere of highly coordinated
teamwork. We have a director of
operational excellence on the leadership
team who specializes in training,
quality processes and efficiency.
That’s an essential part of our clientfocused
approach.”
Ettinger says that because most of
GeoVerra’s employees have been with
the legacy companies for many years,
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