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| KSA employee secures fifth survey license, plans for four more |
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| 02.14.2012 |
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KSA Engineers, Inc. is proud to announce another professional success story in the survey division. Surveyor Clinton Lovell recently passed his Texas RPLS licensing exams, which added a fifth state to his growing list of accreditations. Lovell is also registered in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi and South Dakota.
Lovell joined KSA Engineers almost two years ago, but started his career in land surveying as a teenager working in his father’s Louisiana-based engineering and surveying firm.
“I actually got started in surveying in 1972. I was in high school. My father owned an engineering and surveying firm. I started part time then and started full time in 1976.”
Lovell received his first Registered Professional Land Surveyor certificate in Louisiana in 1984 and added Mississippi as his father’s company expanded their coverage. After joining KSA in 2010, Lovell received his certification in Oklahoma and South Dakota. However, he said his main objective was to be certified in Texas.
“The main goal I had when I got back into surveying was if I’m going to live in Texas, I need to be licensed in Texas,” he said. “When I first came to work here, there was a pressing desire to have a registrant in Oklahoma. So I pursued that first, but Texas was the goal.”
The 30-year veteran said the tests differ from state to state because of local laws governing property rights in each location.
“For most of the states, outside of Texas, they were all based on the U.S. Public Land Survey System. Texas and Tennessee are unique because they are based on a different methodology for subdividing public land.”
To become a professional land surveyor, Lovell said applicants must take up to eight hours of exams covering the fundamentals of surveying, up to six hours of exams on the principals and practices and another two hour state-specific examination.
Lovell is scheduled to take exams for Wyoming, Colorado, Arkansas and Kansas later this year.
In spite of all the testing, Lovell said he enjoys the people he works with at KSA, as well as the “historical jigsaw puzzle” called surveying.
“There’s nothing like getting out in the woods and digging up an old pine knot that wouldn’t mean anything to anyone else. But this is something that some old frontier surveyor back in 1836 hacked out of tree and set in the ground to mark a section corner in the middle of nowhere, while fighting mosquitoes, snakes and possibly Indians,” Lovell said.”Then you realize that you may be the first person to recover it in the past 150 to 200 years. Then to be able to prove that it is in fact that corner, that’s a pretty fulfilling thing… I’m not Indiana Jones, but I enjoy the treasure hunt.”
About KSA
KSA Engineers, Inc. is an industry leader providing a broad range of consulting, management, engineering, planning, surveying, and construction services for more than 30 years. Founded in 1978, the firm has grown to over 150 employees located in eight offices and was named on the 2009, 2010 and 2011 ZweigWhite Hot Firm List, which recognizes the fastest growing architectural and engineering firms from the United States and Canada. In addition, KSA was recently named to the ENR Top 500, a listing of the largest design firms in the United States. www.ksaeng.com
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