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Impossible Engineering
How to convert DMS to decimal with Excel. Working in civil engineering I run into many situations where I need to convert Degrees, usually as Latitude and/or Longitude, between decimal degrees and Degrees, minutes, seconds (DMS). Often this happens in using Lat/Long provided from the survey crew and then needing to use that information […]
How to Convert Degrees, Minutes, Seconds to Decimal Degrees in ...
Engineers vs. Lawyers
Benchmark was the civil design firm for the construction of the Forbes Road Plaza project, located between the Latrobe 30 Plaza and Sharky’s on the west bound side of Route 30 in Latrobe, PA. The Plaza is single story steel structure multi-purpose multi-tenet structure, approximately 9,160 sf in floor area. The […]
Forbes Road Plaza
Quote-Steve Jobs on Design
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS South Park Township 2675 Brownsville Road South Park, PA 15129 Separate and sealed bids for the 2016 RESTORATION OF VARIOUS STREETS ‑ CONTRACT NO. SP2015-62, under one contract, consisting of but not limited to: STREET NAME FROM and TO AURORA DRIVE (Cochern Mill […]
Open for Bidding-South Park Street Restoration 2016
Feb. 2014 This week, we were awarded a contract for engineering services to help the Westmoreland Humane Society construct a new kennel building. The projected cost for the project is $200,000 and will provide the humane society with 13 new kennels, as well as food-prep and adoption rooms. This is […]
Helping the Humane Society
Experience Matters – 34 years – still true! It is often said that experience matters, and if experience and expertise matter to you then you should know that Benchmark brings 34 years of surveying and engineering design to every project. The Principal Engineer, Tim Fyock, established Benchmark on his expertise […]
Experience Matters
Recently I gave a presentation during the Westmoreland County Conservation District Engineer’s Workshop on what the Notice of Termination is, when to complete it, and how to get paid for during the work. If you weren’t at the workshop, or if you want to show the presentation to others in […]