Topographic Surveys, Easements and Original vs. Retracement Surveys
Agenda
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024
9:00 am – 4:05 pm CST
Presented by J. Cole Helfrich
Agenda:
Topographic Surveying
- Gathering, manipulating and presenting
- Historic practice: leveling
- Transitional practice: total stations
- Modern practice: robot total stations, GPS
- Benchmark data and standards
- Drafting/modern CAD techniques
- Managing topographic information for intended use
- Samples of Illinois Standards of Practice
Identifying, Classifying and Locating Easements
- What is and is not an easement
- Creating easements: easements by necessity, easements by use, written easements
- Identifying critical distinctions between easements in gross, easements appurtenant
and prescriptive easements - Maintaining easements
- Knowing when and how to terminate easements
- Obstructing use of easements and determining remedies for obstruction
Comparison between Original Surveys and Retracement Surveys
- The Sermon
- Following in the footsteps
- Legal and historical opinions
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Credits
Land Surveyors
6.0 PDHs*
Engineers
6.0 PDHs*
Continuing Education Credit Information
This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 6.0 PDHs for professional engineers and land surveyors in most states. *This course is not eligible for CE credits in New York; please refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida (Provider License No: CEA362), Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700) and North Carolina (S-0130).
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for land surveyors licensed in Indiana (License No. CE10600325), Maryland, and North Carolina (S-0130).
This course has been registered with the Florida Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers for 6.0 CE credits and has been approved for 6.0 PDUs by the Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Professional Landscape Architects.
Speakers
J. Cole Helfrich
Principal Land Surveyor with Koru Group PLLCMr. Helfrich has been principal land surveyor with Craig R. Knoche & Associates, P.C. and its successor Koru Group PLLC in the Chicago area for the last 30 years. Mr. Helfrich first picked up a plumb bob in 1971 for Webster & Associates. From tape-and-transit to GPS, mortgage surveys to shopping centers, he has his seal on billions of dollars of commercial, residential and institutional developments and transactions in 23 counties in Illinois together with consulting and managing projects in 15 other states. Mr. Helfrich has enjoyed working with countless prominent developers, attorneys and other professionals in the field and the office. His specialties include real estate law, boundaries and boundary law, easements, rights-of-way and other encumbrances and servitudes, statutory and common-law plats, ALTA surveys, topography, building and site layout, construction- and project-management as well as land development consulting. He has presented classes and co-written manuals with the Illinois Institute For Continuing Legal Education along with classes at the University of Illinois and HalfMoon Education. Mr. Helfrich is a member of the National Society of Professional Surveyors and the Illinois Professional Land Surveyors Association.