Like surveyors, Berntsen cares about quality, accuracy and a job well done. We provide the quality products that help surveyors leave their mark, and we are thrilled to celebrate the stories they share with us. The book “Lasting Impressions – A Glimpse into the Legacy of Surveying” authored by our CEO, Rhonda Rushing, looks at the importance of surveying and the monuments that have a personal and lasting impact on people’s lives.

If you enter any building, by the time you hop on the elevator, you’ve probably seen multiple logos and ads in the building and on the clothing of the people you see. When you select your floor, you’ll see the logo of the elevator’s manufacturer on the panel.

But what about the company that actually constructed the building you’re in? After construction’s done, and the occupant moves in, the name of the builder is gone and probably forgotten.

That doesn’t have to happen.

Lack of buried asset information is estimated to cost the U.S. about $50 billion annually.

Construction intended to improve public infrastructure is the most costly and involved public works undertakings by government and contracting firms.

It’s surprising that many of the costs associated with large-scale construction projects stem from:

• relocating underground utilities

• designing around them so they don’t need to be moved.

Surveyors do much more than make precise measurements for boundary lines or construction projects – Surveyors are marketing an essential professional service.

Surveyors are critical to the accuracy of boundaries and infrastructure, yet their services are often undersold. It’s common that the only visible testament to a surveyor’s work are a few wooden stakes that are either removed or left in place to disappear over a few months.

Most end customers have only a peripheral knowledge of surveying in general, because surveying services are engaged through realtors or other contractors. It’s very important that your direct customer and the end-customer understand the value of surveying.

One of the little-known facts about the expansion of settlers into the interior territories of the United States was the essential role that surveying played in establishing settlements. As tracts of land were allotted to settlers, these tracts had to be measured, marked and recorded. This effort called for enterprising people who were educated, resourceful, and tough enough to live off the land.

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. ­­