Over the next 20 years, upgrades to the nation’s water system alone are expected to cost three to five trillion dollars. Yet appropriations to replace critical infrastructure continually fall short. Municipalities and utility companies are under enormous pressure to make existing assets more efficient.

In his poem, Mending Wall, Robert Frost captured the adage of a New Hampshire neighbor who observed “Good fences make good neighbors.”

While this may be true in cases where boundary lines are valid and undisputed, fences can make decidedly worse neighbors when the fence lines are in question. The sovereign boundaries and borders of nations, in particular, make for hotly contested claims if the official lines are vague or questioned.

Next, we deploy our drone outfitted with GNSS, a magnetic locator and RFID transceiver to hover over each monument coordinates to confirm the existing monuments and search for any missing monuments.

It's not the metal in the cap, it's the higher-quality manufacturing process that makes a superior metal survey cap. Orbital forging is one part of the manufacturing process that makes the metal caps from Berntsen International stronger, smoother, and longer-lasting.

MADISON, Wis.—Berntsen International, a leader in infrastructure marking systems designed for a connected world, is a finalist in the 2017 Wisconsin Innovation Awards.

On Sept. 14, 2018, Hurricane Florence slammed into the Carolinas, bringing with her powerful winds, torrential rains and the potential to wreak catastrophic destruction. Though Florence was downgraded to a Category 1 storm as it moved over land, its high winds and rain toppled trees, triggered massive flooding and caused power transformers to explode like fireworks, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power. More than 40 people have died as a result of the storm and flooding. ­­