PRMC Surveying Analysis, Final Project

Parkview Med Park 11 Final Project Booklet
Parkview Med Park 11 Final Project Power Point


I have attached two links to my final project for my BCM 212 (Surveying) course from the Fall 2011 semester.  A few weeks into the course we were assigned a group final project that would consist of a site visit, a booklet, and a presentation in front of our peers analyzing the layout process used.  I worked on the Parkview Regional Medical Center job in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for Weigand Construction during last summer (2011), so it was a natural fit to pick that job for our project because of my pre existing connections.  I was able to get in contact with several of my co-workers to obtain the contact information of both the building surveyor, and the surveyor on site for the steel erection and concrete placement.  I emailed each contact and also spoke with each on the phone before determining that the on-site surveyor would be our best choice.


As I will discuss in a different post the PRMC project was one of the largest in the Midwest over the last several years, both in size and value.  The actual construction layout, and exterior construction for that matter, of the main hospital was done by the time we did our site visit.  Fortunately, PRMC was still under construction in the form of an additional medical office building (Med Park 11).  This project is a build out office building and was about two weeks from the exterior being completed when we visited.  We met with Hagerman's surveyor, Jim Woodruff, and walked the site with him.  We learned about his controls, instruments, layout techniques, facts about the building, problems he faced and other facets of the construction layout process.

After we conducted our job site visit, we had to gather what we learned, analyze it and compile it into a booklet and a power point to present to our peers.  I encourage you to please take a look at both links to my final project that I have provided at the beginning of this post.  This project did not only give me a real world experience of what we were learning and performing in class, but also allowed me to analyze the process of a job activity from a managerial/inspector point of view.  I am positive that I will be able to take my experience and apply it to my future in the industry to better analyze processes.