Mike Gilbert and Keith Luscinski traveled to Golden, Colorado this month to attend the 2012 conference for the Society of Professional Rope Access Technicians (SPRAT). SPRAT is an organization comprised of individuals, companies, and agencies that have a stake in the safe development of rope access standards and practices. Although SPRAT is based in the United States,…
Date: January 23, 2012 Time: 12:00 – 1:00 EST Join us for a demonstration of the new web-based reporting feature of TPAS – the tablet PC annotation system that let you enter data directly in AutoCAD drawings in the field. Web-based TPAS reports allow you to interactively search, view and format your field-captured data and…
Eighty fall protection professionals representing the fall protection industry throughout the US and Canada gathered in Boulder, Colorado over three days in November to continue moving forward the Z359 fall protection code from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Kelly Streeter travels out to this meeting twice a year to take part in this consensus…
In the heart of the Toronto financial district is 1 King Street West, a hotel and residential tower that exemplifies both Toronto’s architectural heritage as well as the city’s more recent building boom. The current building on the eastern portion of the site was built in 1914 as the headquarters of The Dominion Bank. The…
Here’s some information that we’d like to pass along from a colleague in our community of conservators, architects, and engineers … Registration is now open for Masonry Conservation 2011-2012, a two-semester program of classes, labs, and field workshops designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills needed to handle complex preservation and maintenance issues…
The efficient collection of conditions data on-site is critical during the early stages of a project. Decisions made about treatments are made based on the these initial evaluations and observations and they must be reliable and in a compatible format that is usable by the entire team of design professionals and project stakeholders. Vertical Access…
Read the September 2011 Quarterly Newsletter here. Subscribe to the blog and receive email updates when new items are posted here.
VA was retained by Olson Engineering to assist with non-destructive testing (NDT) at the Occoquan Dam in Fairfax County, Virginia. The purpose of the project was to perform an investigation of the dam’s North abutment (side spillway) using Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) to determine the rebar size and spacing in this portion of the dam. The…
Read the July 2011 Quarterly here. Subscribe to the blog to receive email updates of when new items are posted. See option in menu to the right.
Download the new Vertical Access brochure here. If you would like to receive a full-color print copy, please send a request to bizdev@vertical-access.com with your name and address, and we’ll mail one out to you.
