First Place Award Heads to National Plat Contest
Thompson & Litton’s Survey Department excels in the Annual Virginia Association of Surveyors Plat Contest with two substantial awards.
The plats were judged at the Annual Convention held in Newport News, Virginia on April 12 – 15. The Marriott City Center hosted the awards banquet and dinner on Friday April 14th. Matt Mosteller, LS, and Michael Miller attended and represented the T&L Survey Department at the event, where they received a first-place recognition for the Miscellaneous category and a second-place recognition in the Subdivision category out of the all the plats entered statewide.
The plats submitted were a topographical survey of a bridge on the Blue Ridge Parkway over Route 220 in Roanoke County, Virginia. T&L survey crews performed the field work with a robotic scan station and static GPS receivers. This project incorporated terrestrial scanning, conventional surveying, and the creation of a GPS control network. Mike Countiss performed the drafting on the Miscellaneous plat with Matt Mosteller, LS sealing the plat. Josh Holbrook with the assistance of Michael Miller drafted the Subdivision plat created from a parcel in Pulaski County, Virginia while Matt Mosteller, LS sealed the plat.
The award-winning plats will be on display at the Radford Annex office along with the 1st and 2nd place plaques. The first-place miscellaneous plat is going on to the National Society of Professional Surveyors national plat contest for judging later this year.