RSG’S

Incorporatingthe Surveyors

Board of South Australia

EDITION 15 - 2014

Inside this edition+ Registered Surveying Graduates+ Calendar Dates for 2015+ Surveying and Mapping SA Report+ Land Services Commission Cadastral Workshops+ Audit Summary Survey+ Land Surveyors Brochure+ SSSI-SA Region+ Industry Research+ Masters of Surveying Cadastral Surveying Project 1+ Planning Reform Committee+ Code of Practice Committee+ SB e-news Edition 16+ Season’s Greetings and Holiday Dates

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Registered Surveying GraduatesThere are thirteen RSG’s currently registered and in Training Agreements.

In addition we have seven who have progressed to their Professional Assessment Projects. Following theupgrade of the Standard Operating Procedures – Supervision Policy we have three Technical Surveyors onour register and we would expect these young people will progress onto the RSG program in time.

The Surveyors Board SA has researched training opportunities that are made available to RSG’s in Victoriaand New South Wales. Through the Consulting Surveyors of Victoria, Mr John Minehan has been very generous in sharing their training program with Mr Scott Allen, Academic Member of the Board.

At the Surveyors Board meeting of 11 December 2014 it was recommended that a pilot training workshopbe established for all RSG’s. It will be delivered on the 27th June 2015 at the University of South Australia,City East Campus. This workshop will provide some excellent practical experience and support training toall Registered Surveying Graduates.

Calendar Dates for 2015

SURVEYORS BOARD SA

MEETING DATES

SSSI-SA REGIONAL OFFICE

MEETING DATES

OTHER IMPORTANT DATES

LAND SERVICES COMMISSION CADASTRAL WORKSHOPS

INSTITUTE OF SURVEYORS AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA DIVISION INC AGM

SPATIAL INFORMATION DAY

2015-2016 SURVEYORS LICENCE RENEWALS

Thursday 19 February 2015Thursday 19 March 2015Thursday 16 April 2015Thursday 21 May 2015Thursday 18 June 2015Thursday 16 July 2015Thursday 20 August 2015Thursday 17 September 2015Thursday 15 October 2015Thursday 19 November 2015Thursday 3 December 2015

Tuesday 20 January 2015Tuesday 3 March 2015Tuesday 14 April 2015Tuesday 26 May 2015Tuesday 7 July 2015Tuesday 18 August 2015Tuesday 29 September 2015Tuesday 10 November 2015

Saturday Breakfast 18 April 2015Monday Dinner 16 November 2015

Wednesday 16 September 2015

To be advised

Due 31st May 2015Renewal notices will be distributed 27 April 2015

For more information on events and registrations (if required) http://www.sssi.org.au/index/region/5.html

Surveying and Mapping SA ReportIn July the Surveying SA committee embarked on a newimage. Since the committees inception they have workedclosely with the Victorian Task Force and in particular “A lifewithout Limits” under the brand Surveying.

In a review of the budgets and the renewal of the UniSA Education Funding for 2015 – 2018 it was agreed that a shift in direction would provide the opportunity to re-connect with the market and bring up to date the content and target strategies required to recruit students into thesurveying profession.

The new brochures and brand development is complete andthey will be launched early 2015.Working with the SSSI-Young Professionals the committeehas established opportunities to develop events that will beappealing to young people looking to choose a career insurveying in South Australia.

In addition the committee will develop a work experienceprogram that is managed through the office of the Board ofSurveyors connecting tertiary students to work experienceopportunities provided direct by surveying companies inour state. This programme will form a part of their training.If you are interested in participating in this program

please contact the Registrar, Sharon Medlow Smith on

(08) 8212 0343.

Career development days will be scheduled for secondarystudents as an introduction to the profession providing a platform to detail the education requirements and thetraining program.

The UniSA Education Funding agreement is complete andthe second round of funding for the Masters of Surveyingwill commence in 2015. Thanks should be extended to Associate Professor David Bruce, Chair Michael Nietschke,and the Surveyor-General Michael Burdett for their contribution in negotiating the contracts for the funding.

The Surveying and Mapping SA committee will also worktowards developing a greater awareness of the industry toconsumers in South Australia.

A new website will be developed and used to promote surveying and mapping events targeting students, providing industry news and special events, promoting the work experience timetable and encouraging visitors tothe site to use the "contact us" links.

Thank you to all those who are members of the Surveyingand Mapping SA committee for your contribution in timeand effort, without their level of support it would be impossible to manage this important committee in the mission to provide quality education to students choosingsurveying as a career.

10 THINGS TO LIKE ABOUT A CAREER IN

SURVEYING

1. You will be workingwith cutting edgetechnology such as lasers,robotic guidance stationsand global navigationsatellite systems. Surveying involves themeasurement and map-ping of the environmentand requires specialisedequipment and software.

3. Surveyors can work in theoffice drafting plans usinga CAD system, downloadingdata and preparing equip-ment for use on location.

4. You can work on largelocal projects like the RAHHospital, Adelaide Oval andthe Southern Expressway.

5. You can also work out-doors in both the city or the country, and you will get totravel to some very remoteand interesting locations.

7. Surveyors work togetheron projects and collaboratewith a wide range of otherprofessionals such as Architects, Engineers andLand Developers.

10. If you like science andtechnology, geography orare good with geometry,Surveying could be the career for you.

2. Surveying is an excitingchoice to start your professional career, offeringplenty of diversity.

6. Surveying offers good job prospects and security.

8. Surveyors analyse andprovide solutions. They use set principals to under-take the measurement ofland and provide otherswith vital information for a wide range of projects.

9. We will need more andmore Surveyors in the nearfuture, particularly in SouthAustralia which makes it agood career choice.

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TO REGISTER INTEREST INWORK EXPERIENCE OR TOFIND OUT MORE ABOUT SURVEYING GO TOwww.surveyingmappingsa.com.auwww.surveyorsboardsa.org.au

OR FACEBOOK:surveyingmappingsa

OR CALL (08) 8212 0343

10 THINGS TO LIKE ABOUT A CAREER IN

MAPPING

3. You will perform a varietyof different day to day tasksand learn something newevery day.

4. You can work in industrieslike land development, engineering, construction,agribusiness, resources, location analytics & health.

5. Your work can move between the office, city,country and remote areas.You can travel to new placesand learn skills you can useevery day like 4WD tuitionand first aid training.

10. GIS is a way of linkingscience with action, andmapping specialists givethe information and toolsfor action to virtually every-one as universal enablers.

2. As a mapping specialistyou will be working withcutting edge technology ofbig data, location analytics,smartphones, satellitetracking, web mapping and interpreting satelliteimages of Earth.

8. You might tabulate changing measurements like soil salinity or river erosion for environmental-ists and turn this data into4D electronic maps.

9. If you enjoy design andhave an interest in mapsyou can combine your skillswith computer engineering.

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1.Geographic informationsystems (GIS) let us map,visualise, investigate,analyse and interpret datato understand relation-ships, patterns and trends.GIS benefits organisationsof all sizes and makes adifference to industry.

TO REGISTER INTEREST INWORK EXPERIENCE OR TOFIND OUT MORE ABOUT MAPPING GO TOwww.surveyingmappingsa.com.auwww.surveyorsboardsa.org.au

OR FACEBOOK:surveyingmappingsa

OR CALL (08) 8212 0343

6. Mappers can solve uniqueproblems and work withother professionals whenproducing maps and reportsbased on available statistics.

7. By understanding moreabout your environment youcan make better decisions,like using GIS to model thepropagation of disease.

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Cadastral Workshops The SSSI-SA Land Services Commission - Cadastral Workshop Breakfast held in May had 112 registrations of Licenced Surveyors and the November Cadastral Workshop Dinner had a record number of 130 Licenced Surveyors in attendance. The very energetic feedback received is clear evidence that these workshops are not only an opportunity to keep up to date and complete the CPD requirements they are very much a networking opportunity shared by all surveyors.

The organising committee takes this opportunity to thank all the volunteer presenters for their very informative presentations and would encourage all surveyors to make topical recommendations for future

workshops. It should be noted here that presenters are awarded double CPD Points for their efforts.

Work is in progress to make these events available for review via the Surveyors Board Website and details on this will be made available in 2015.

The annual CPD Audit was well received and it is encouraging to see that all Surveyors are now familiar with the CPD Program and the important part this plays in the renewal of a surveyors licencein South Australia.

Michael Nietschke Tom Jeffrey

Audit Summary SurveyThe following issues were identified by the Audit Program since the report in SB e-news Edition 12.

REDEFINITION

1. Redefinition of road boundaries created in an 1859 rural survey resulted in compensating angle and distance differences of the order of magnitude of a metre. This suggested occupation 0.7m away shouldhave instead been adopted.

2. On the same survey very old occupation (age not shown) along a 2.5km road only deviated up to 0.15mfrom forming a straight line. The surveyor instead adopted more recent occupation at an intermediatejunction to come 0.6m off these very old fencelines.

3. A surveyor determined fairly reliable start points in a rural area of many road bends, originally surveyed in 1887. Intermediate bends, where the occupation was too far away to be of any value, were redefinedleaving 2m shortage in one line and a compensating 4’10” difference in an angle (these differences wereshown on the surveyor’s annotated plan report). Audit showed that shifting the bends reduced the shortage to 0.3m, and the angular difference to 1’50”.

4. In the same survey the surveyor extrapolated previous road redefinition 1.5km to come within 0.3m of very old fencing (age not shown). This consistent line of fencing should have instead been adopted at that road extremity. Modern survey’s introduction of a bend in retracing the original boundary over a long line should not have been unexpected.

5. A surveyor positioned a rural road alignment to meet a bend in another road, in accordance with originalgeometry. The previous redefinition’s positioning of this bend had not considered occupation along the terminating road’s alignment. This occupation was quite old and collinear over a significant length, missing the bend by 0.36m. In the circumstances the surveyor should have instead adopted this fence line. The previous survey unknowingly introduced the step at the bend.

6. A 1971 Road Plan missed in the search for a survey in a country town led to a 4 link error in the road alignment of the subject land. Despite the missed search the problem should have been indicated by the resulting 0.8m excess over CT data, and that the excess extended beyond occupation by up to 0.7m.

7. An Application survey in 1947 brought a subject land allotment in a large country town under the RPA. This survey was indexed as an LTO A plan, referenced on PIERS against the town allotment; its referencemarks remain. The current surveyor did not have this plan so was apparently dealing with 0.22m excessbetween cross roads to either side. Despite missing the critical plan he could have redefined close to thecorrect position as current fencing is within 0.05m of that adopted by the Application survey. Instead helaid abutting CT frontages from both roads placing all the excess in his subject land, going 0.23m beyondhis occupation on the western side. Occupation of other side boundaries located by him suggested the excess belonged in the parcel to the west.

8. A surveyor redefined an allotment in a 1911 urban subdivision resulting in 0.5m shortage to the east and0.13m excess to the west. Occupation (shown old) at one end of three consecutive side boundaries wasconsistent with original frontages between them, however a house was shown encroaching onto the subject land by up to 0.16m and side boundary angles were broken by 13 minutes. Audit extended connection to occupation within the same DP providing a different picture of its original position: thehouse was not encroaching, allotment angles agreed with the original subdivision, and the compensatingcomponents of the differences to the east and west were eliminated.

9. A surveyor redefined numerous corners on a rural survey without connection to their existing referencemarks and occupation. The surveyor was not interested in these corners, however, did not understand the consequence of presenting the data for them as surveyed.

On a rural survey errors in measurement of found reference marks and occupation at four corners, as well as incorrectly showing a reference mark as gone (not difficult to find), led to 0.5m errors in redefinition of these corners.

Boundaries from an 1860’s rural subdivision were redefined 0.35m out of position due to error in the surveyor’s measurement to adopted occupation.

MISREPRESENTED OCCUPATION POSITION

On a rural survey at three road junctions the surveyor presented occupation ‘on’ the production of theroad alignments, apparently supporting the positions adopted. These occupations were located between0.5m and 2m out of position.

Audit detected occupation offset errors at the 0.5m level in two separate parts of a rural survey. The surveyor’s field notes indicated he had not measured this occupation; the offsets were instead replicatedfrom other surveyors’ plans.

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Land Surveyors BrochureThe production of the Land Surveyors Brochure is complete and some have been distributed.

A bundle of these brochures will be sent to all Surveying companies in South Australia for distribution toyour clients and associates. In addition they will be sent to Council Offices, UDIA, the Property Council, and Government departments.

If you would like more of these brochures please contact Sharon by emailsharonmedlowsmith@isasa.org.au and she will send them to you.

Providing certainty for property, development and

the environment

Licensed SurveyorsSouth Australian

What does a surveyor do?

In South Australia, Licensed and RegisteredSurveyors are professionally qualified practitioners who have satisfied the trainingand examination requirements of the Surveyors Board of South Australia and are permitted to practice in Australia andNew Zealand.

Licensed Surveyors have specific expertisein the identification and measurement of property boundaries. They undertake surveys for land subdivision and community titles. They are qualified to conduct surveysand authorise your legal documentation.

A Registered Surveyor has recognised expertise in areas other than land boundarydefinition. They specialise in engineering surveying, mining surveying and hydro-graphic surveying.

Identifying and marking the position of the property boundaries is the primary serviceof a Licensed Surveyor. When building on or near a land boundary, you should engage a Licensed Surveyor to verify your title dimensions and boundary location.

In South Australia, all property boundary surveys must be conducted or supervised by a practising Licensed Surveyor by law. Surveys conducted by unlicensed practi-tioners do not have any legal standing andmay compromise the future developmentof your property.

Similarly, when you consider buying or sell-ing your house or land, it is important to beaware of any encroachments involving yourneighbouring properties. Major discrepanciesbetween boundaries and fencing are not uncommon and can sometimes be very difficult to rectify.

A boundary dispute can result in expensivelitigation, particularly if major improvementsyou are undertaking need to be removed orrelocated. Using a Licensed Surveyor willprovide an important safeguard against this.

If you engage a surveying firm, check thatthe company uses a surveyor who is licensedin South Australia and legally entitled to define the boundaries of your property.

The Surveyors Board of South Australia has the power to investigate and prosecute unauthorised people who undertake property boundary surveys.

Why you should always use a Licensed Surveyor

Buying a property is the most expensive purchase that most people will ever make.Certainty of the location and extent of theland you buy is an important issue.

University of South AustraliaMaster of Surveying Cadastral Surveying Project 1

Mr Cameron Burr, Mr Marko Curcic and Mr Nelson Tucker presented their Cadastral Surveying Project 1 to over 40 of their industry peers on Friday 13 June 2014 at the UniSA City East campus.

Mr Scott Allen was very pleased with the attendance, the questions posed to the students and the general feedback from the industry regarding the quality of the training being provided to surveying students at the University.

The Land Surveying Commission for the SSSI-SA Region farewelled Mr Robin Loechel who has been a representative on the commission for several years. A very sincere thanks to Robin for his contribution to this committee over a difficult period must be noted.

Mr Michael Grear will join the committee. Along with Mr Joe D'Aloiathis commission is in good hands in South Australia.

For a strong representation and a solid voice the Land Surveying Commission encourages all Licenced Surveyors to become more actively involved in this commission and the work it undertakes in South Australia.

SSSI-SA Region

Mr Robin Loechel

Industry ResearchThe Consulting Surveyors of New South Wales invited all states in Australia to participate in a research update that was initially completed in 2010.

The study “Determining the Future Demand, Supply and Skills Gap for Surveying and Geospatial Professionals: 2014 – 2024” was completed at the end of November.

A full copy of the final report will be available in the new year.

The Surveying and Mapping Committee and SSSI-SA would like to thank all those who participated inthe research survey and are confident that the information in the report will provide an insight to the future of our industry.

Planning Reform CommitteeFollowing the participation of 8 Licenced Surveyors, the Planning Reform Committee chaired by Mr Mark Goedecke made their final submission and recommendations at the end of August 2014. The committee at this stage has not reconvened, however, should a need to discuss the report and its outcomes be necessary, the opportunity to meet again will be made available.

The Code of Practice CommitteeThe Code of Practice Committee continues to work on this document:

Code of Practice – Lodgement of Boundary Identification Surveys.

The last round of recommendations was made to the Surveyors Board SA in November 2014. The Boardhas made some additional recommendations and comments requesting that the committee meet again in2015 to work through some of the concerns.

The initial draft document has been distributed to members for comment and we thank all those who sentthrough their comments. The final draft will be distributed to members for comment when it is ready.

The next edition will be Edition 16 and distributed early in 2015. We welcome your contributions, bothwritten and photographic and any feedback in advance of that date.

Please send to isasa@isasa.org.au

SB e-news Edition 16

The Board of Surveyors South Australiawishes all members a safe and HappyChristmas and all the very best for aprosperous New Year. We look forwardto continuing to provide members with informative industry support andnetworking events during 2015.

FESTIVE SEASON OFFICE HOURS

The Office will be closed from Monday22nd December 2014 and will reopen onMonday 5th January 2015.