SURCON Technologist case studies
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The SURCON Professional Examination is the professional assessment run by the Surveyors Council of Nigeria (SURCON), the body that "register, regulate and control the practice of survey profession in all its ramifications in Nigeria." SURCON was established under Decree No. 44 of 1989, now Act No. The SURCON Technologist case studies are 5 cases and about 3,954 words.
1RTK That Fixes but Does Not Agree: Mangrove Pipeline Control
You are the survey technologist on a 12 km pipeline route survey through mangrove creeks near Oloibiri, Bayelsa State. The GNSS base receiver sits on a 1970s control pillar whose published coordinates are in the Nigerian Transverse Mercator projection on the Minna datum.
799 words, about 4 min2One Missing Pillar, One Found Out of Position, One Registered Overlap
A client holds a Certificate of Occupancy issued in 2009 for Plot 14 in a government layout in Enugu, described as 0.2147 ha, with a survey plan showing bearings and distances from two concrete pillars. You are asked to prepare a fresh plan for a mortgage.
778 words, about 4 min3Misclosure at 1:10,700 on an 18-Leg Road Traverse
You are checking a 6.2 km, 18-leg closed traverse run with a 5 second total station for a rural road design in Kaduna State. The traverse closes on two control pillars.
794 words, about 4 min4Signing Another Firm's Plan, Backdated to Beat a Setback Rule
You are a registered survey technologist in a Lagos firm. A long-standing client brings a survey plan for a four-storey development, prepared by an unregistered drafting outfit, and asks you to sign and stamp it because the Lands Bureau will not register a plan that carries no registered practitioner's seal.
763 words, about 4 min5Two Benchmarks 0.28 m Apart on a Flood-Prone Drainage Scheme
A consultant is designing gravity drainage for a 2.4 km low-lying estate in Port Harcourt. You run a 12-setup level loop from BM-A, a brass bolt on a 1975 pillar with published elevation 4.862 m, to BM-T, a cut mark on a church wall at 5.144 m established by another firm in 2016.
820 words, about 4 min