All posts by Jeff Thoreson
xyHt Digital Magazine: April 2024
xyHt magazine’s April 2024 issue focuses on land surveying by looking at changes above ground and an interesting survey below ground. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your copy, don’t fret, here is the digital edition. Click here or on the...
Looking Forward: Underground Surveying
This month's issue features a story about underground surveying. Beneath parts of the Louisville, Kentucky is the Louisville Mega Cavern, an underground space of 100 acres created by years of mining rock.
Looking Forward: AI and Construction
Artificial intelligence is a thing. It’s creeped into many facets of our lives and businesses, and this month in our annual issue focusing on construction, we look at how it is changing that industry.
Preserving the World’s Cultural Heritage
Scanning the ruins of a castle in Romania will help preserve the country’s past and the literary myth of Dracula
xyHt Digital Magazine: February 2024
xyHt magazine’s February 2024 issue is takes a look at scanning and the future of GPS as it turns 50 years old. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your copy, don’t fret, here is the digital edition. Click here or on...
BIM: Into the Future
Looking Forward The concept of building information modeling has existed since the 1970s, although we certainly didn’t recognize it then. That’s when the first software tools developed for modeling buildings started to emerge. Those early applications and the computers needed to run them were expensive, so adoption wasn’t widespread. BIM gradually evolved, though still far...
