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Corporate Resumé
COMPANY HISTORY & ORGANIZATION
The records of Charlevoix Abstract & Engineering Company (d/b/a advanced
geomatics) indicate that the company existed prior to 1888 under the
auspices of D. C. Nettleton who was a land title abstracter and a land surveyor.
It was reorganized in 1916 by R. F. Sloan, a registered civil engineer and land
surveyor, and it was at this time that the company officially became known as
the Charlevoix Abstract & Engineering Company. Mary C. Feindt, PS, began working
for the company in 1938, and in 1944 she became the owner of the company as an
abstracter and registered land surveyor. On September 1, 1965, Charlevoix
Abstract & Engineering Company became incorporated in Michigan, with Mary C.
Feindt as its president. Its current corporate officers are Lawrence R. Feindt,
PS, President and Treasurer; Faye A. Feindt, Secretary; James E. Evans, PS, Vice
President; and Helen M. Himes, PE, Vice President of Engineering. The company
officially began conducting business under the assumed name of advanced
geomatics, as filed with the Michigan Corporation and Securities Bureau on
August 1, 1996. The corporate office is located in Charlevoix, Michigan, and a
metro office is maintained in Novi, Michigan. The company has been prequalified
with MDOT since 1999, and is very active in connection with highway surveying
activities. We are also a registered DBE with MDOT.
SCOPE OF SERVICES
Proven expertise and experience in the surveying field include section
retracements, boundary surveys, ALTA/ACSM land title surveys, mortgage
inspections, land planning, condominium development, subdivision design, marine
harbor surveys, topographic and planimetric mapping, highway and road surveys,
small and large scale construction lay-outs, quality control/quality assurance
construction activities, and small scale geodetic and control surveys. The
company employs three professional surveyors with licenses in Michigan, Illinois
and New Jersey, boasting a combined experience of over 100 years.
Advanced Geomatics is currently prequalified with the Michigan Department of
Transportation in Right-of-Way Surveys, Road Design Surveys, Bridge Surveys,
Hydraulic Surveys, Geodetic Control Surveys, Ground Control Surveys, and
Construction Layout.
ORGANIZATION
The professional surveying is conducted under the supervision of Lawrence R.
Feindt, PS, with the assistance of James E. Evans, PS. Lawrence R. Feindt
oversees the general management of company projects and policies with the
administrative assistance of Faye A. Feindt and human resources manager Amy C.
Feindt. Helen M. Himes, PE, acts as a professional engineering consultant, and
she provides assistance regarding company operations in an advisory capacity.
CLIENTS
During the past years the Company has provided its expertise to various
municipalities, governmental organizations, private utility companies, A/E
firms, construction companies, and large private concerns. A representative
client list follows:
 | Abrams Aerial Survey Corporation |
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| A. J. Williams, Inc. |
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| Alfred Benesch and Company |
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| American Mold Engineering Company |
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| Bechtel Corporation |
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| Blount Engineers |
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| Boyne City Housing Commission |
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| Boyne City Public Schools |
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| Burger King |
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| Cedar Ridge Recycling and Disposal Facility |
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| Cemex Cement Company |
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| CH2M Hill |
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| Charlevoix County Housing Commission |
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| Charlevoix County Road Commission |
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| Charlevoix Public Schools |
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| City of Boyne City |
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| City of Charlevoix |
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| City of East Jordan |
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| City of Mackinac Island |
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| City of Petoskey |
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| City of St. Ignace |
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| Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company |
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| Consoer Townsend Envirodyne Engineers, Inc. |
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| Consumers Power Company |
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| County of Antrim |
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| County of Charlevoix |
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| County of Wayne |
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| Detroit Transportation Corporation |
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| Dundee Cement Company |
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| Durocher Dock and Dredge |
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| East Jordan Iron Works |
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| East Jordan Public Schools |
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| Federal Aviation Administration |
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| Field Construction, Inc. |
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| Finkbeiner, Pettis & Strout, Inc. |
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| G2 Consulting Group |
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| Gannett Fleming of Michigan, Inc. |
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| General Motors Corporation, Transportation Systems Division |
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| Hamilton Anderson Associates |
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| HNTB, Inc. |
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| Harbor Industries, Inc. |
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| Hufford Industries |
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| HH Engineering, Ltd. |
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| Industrial Magnetics |
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| Johnson, Johnson and Roy, Inc. |
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| K-Mart Corporation |
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| Kaiser Engineers |
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| Lake Charlevoix Cable TV |
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| Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation |
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| Lerner-Linden, Inc. |
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| Lexalite International Corporation |
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| Ludke Engineering Company |
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| Manthei Development Corporation |
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| McDonald's Corporation |
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| Metcalf and Eddy, Inc. |
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| Michigan Bell Telephone Company |
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| Michigan Consolidated Gas Company |
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| Michigan Department of Management and Budget |
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| Michigan Department of Transportation |
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| Moore & Bruggink |
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| Morrison Restaurants, Inc. |
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| Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc. |
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| MPC Environmental Groundwater Services |
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| Northern Michigan Electric Cooperative, Inc. |
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| Northwest Design Group |
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| NTH Consultants, Ltd. |
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| Orchard, Hiltz and McCliment, Inc. |
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| Owen Ayers & Associates, Inc. |
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| Patrie Construction Company |
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| Parsons Brinckerhoff Michigan, Inc. |
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| Parsons Transportation Group |
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| Paul J. Monohon Associates |
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| Penn-Dixie Cement Corporation |
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| Phoenix Steel |
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| Residuals Management Technology, Inc. |
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| Roen Salvage Company |
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| SCI/Steelcon |
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| Sigma Associates, Inc. |
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| Sims-Varner & Associates |
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| Site Planning Development, Inc. |
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| Smith, Hinchman and Grylls Associates, Inc. |
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| Somat Engineering, Inc. |
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| Terracom Development, Inc. |
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| Tetra Tech MPS |
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| The Corradino Group |
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| The Emanual Company |
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| The Millgard Corporation |
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| The Will-Flow Corporation |
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| Top O' Michigan Rural Electric Company |
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| Transnation Title Insurance Company |
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| Triad Plastics, Inc. |
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| Turner Construction Company |
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| T. Y. Lin International / BASCOR |
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| United States Coast Guard (Ninth District) |
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| United States Post Office |
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| URS Corporation Great Lakes |
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| UTDC Corporation |
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| Village of Alanson |
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| Village of Ellsworth |
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| Village of St. James |
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| Walbridge Aldinger Company |
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| Walter Toebe Construction Company |
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| Williams and Richardson Co., Inc. |
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| William Kessler and Associates, Inc. |
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| Wilcox Associates, Inc. |
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| Wolgast Construction, Inc. |
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| Zephyr Oil Company |
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PROJECT SYNOPSIS
Notable Past Projects:
| 1961; Construction layout of the
Consumers Power Company's Big Rock Nuclear Plant near Charlevoix |
| 1965;
Construction layout for the Medusa Cement Corporation Charlevoix plant. |
| 1967-1968;
Surveying in connection with sixty miles of high voltage
power transmission line for Consumers Power Company in the Gaylord/alkaska
area. |
| 1972-72;
Boundary survey of approximately 8000 acres in Marquette Township in
Mackinac County. |
| 1973-79;
Preparation the plans and surveys requisite for the development of 131
channel lots involving significant dredging in Caseville Township, Huron
County. |
| 1978;
Surveying and checking services for Kaiser Engineers pertaining to a
$50,000,000. plant expansion of the Medusa Cement Company - Charlevoix
plant. |
| 1979-80;
Planimetric base and topographic maps, control surveys, and utility
studies for General Motors Corporation TSD, and Gannett Fleming of Michigan,
Inc., associated with the Detroit Downtown People Mover. |
| 1983-84;
Planimetric base and topographic maps, control surveys, and utility
studies for the Southeastern Michigan Transit Group (a joint venture) in
connection with the proposed Detroit Woodward Linehaul Component (Light Rail
Transit System). |
| 1984-88; Project: Detroit Central
Automated Transit System (Downtown People Mover)
Client: UTDC Corporation
Tasks:
Continuous survey construction related activities for UTDC
Corporation regarding the Detroit Central Automated Transit System (Downtown
People Mover) including quality control/quality assurance programs relative to
concrete beam fabrication, column and building construction, horizontal and
vertical monitoring of cofferdam movement in areas of pile driving near the
Detroit River, establishment of control surveys on column tops for beam
erection, beam erection positioning calculations, monitoring of beam shore
towers for frost heave prior to closure pours and post-tensioning, precision
survey control for rail alignment along with determinations of cast-in-place
rail fastener insert positions, electrical and communications conduit lay-out
in the Maintenance Control Facility, pachometer work to facilitate locations
of reinforcing steel, station lay-out and "as built" data, station and
guideway boundary surveys, rail installation inspection incorporating detailed
"as built" elevations, high precision positional monitoring relative to
structural static load tests, lay-out of inductive loop cable crossover
locations for the electronic control coordination, and contractor invoice
review in connection with plan take-offs.
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1986; Project: Detroit Cobo Hall Expansion
Client: Sims-Varner & Associates
Tasks:
Calculation, coordination and dissemination of data necessary to correlate
the mathematical envelope of the Detroit Downtown People Mover with the Cobo
Hall expansion design.
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| 1986-88; Project: Detroit Cobo Hall Expansion
Client: The Millgard Corporation
Tasks:
Caisson and pile construction control/monitoring and "as built" surveys
pertinent to caisson and pile construction.
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1987; Project: Detroit Cobo Hall Expansion
Client: SCI/Steelcon
Tasks:
Structural steel anchor bolt locations and, "as built" surveys depicting
existing steel column and beam positions.
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| 1988; Project: Detroit Cobo Hall
Expansion
Client: Turner Construction Company
Tasks:
Construction base line lay-out in building interior relative to curtain
wall construction, and vertical monitoring for cantilever structure settlement
under load, plus numerous other surveying activities.
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| 1987-88; Project: Detroit Regional
Correctional Facilities
Client: Wash/Blount, a joint venture, and State of Michigan
Tasks:
Construction control survey, boundary retracement survey, utility
locations and checking services. |
| 1987-88; Project: Veteran's
Administration Replacement Hospital - Detroit
Client: Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Associates, Inc.
Tasks:
Boundary retracement, and topographical/planimetric/utility survey (in
both analytical and digital format). |
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1988; Project: Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago -
Des-Plaines Tunnel System
Client: Morrison-Knudsen / Paschen Contractors
Tasks:
Horizontal and vertical controls for placement of construction shaft, down
shafts, access shafts, and deep monitoring wells. Data was calculated relative
to the Illinois Coordinate System.
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| 1988; Project: Ford Motor Company
- Wixom Assembly Plant Paint Building Addition
Client:SCI/Steelcon
Tasks:
Caisson anchor bolt "as built" survey for approximately 450 caissons. |
| 1990; Project: Highway M-40 -
Holland
Client: Owen Ayres & Associates, Inc. (MDOT)
Tasks:
Electronic field data collection and highway right-of-way retracement for
a MDOT highway reconstruction design project. |
| 1991; Project: Michigan Avenue
(I-94 BL) - Battle Creek
Client: Moore and Bruggink (MDOT)
Tasks:
Precision horizontal and vertical control conjoined with section
retracement for a MDOT highway reconstruction and relocation design project. |
| 1991; Project: Highway U.S. 2 (Hog
Island Creek and Davenport River)
Client: Michigan Department of Transportation
Tasks:
Control survey, topographical survey, hydrographic survey, and bridge
structure mapping for bridge replacement in Michigan's upper peninsula. |
| 1991-95; Project: Davison Freeway
- Highland Park
Client: Alfred Benesch & Company (MDOT)
Tasks:
Precision horizontal and vertical control, right-of-way retracement,
utility locations, topographical surveys, and soil boring locations for a
MDOT highway reconstruction and widening project in Highland Park, Michigan. |
| 1991-94; Project: Detroit Water &
Sewerage Department Pump Station 2A
Client: Metcalf & Eddy
Tasks:
Control surveys, settlement studies, and "as built" tunnel surveys. |
| 1991-95; Project: Southfield Sewer
Investigation - Detroit
Client: NTH Consultants, Ltd. - Detroit
Tasks:
Boundary surveys, topographical surveys and sewer mapping. |
| 1992; Project: Detroit
Metropolitan Airport Wetland Mitigation
Client: NTH Consultants, Ltd. - Detroit
Tasks:
Monitoring well and vegetation study plot location surveys. |
| 1992; Project: U.S. 31 Bascule
Bridge - Charlevoix
Client: Phoenix Steel
Tasks:
Measuring and mapping existing bascule bridge structure for fabrication
of new steel members and bridge deck. |
| 1992; Project: Highway U.S. 27 BR
- Clare
Client: Owen Ayres & Associates, Inc. (MDOT)
Tasks:
Electronic field data collection, highway alignment, public land corner
retracement, and utility locations for a highway reconstruction and
improvement project. |
| 1992-95; Project: Highways I-94 BL
and M-43 - Kalamazoo
Client: McNamee, Porter & Seeley, Inc. (MDOT)
Tasks:
Control survey, topographical survey, hydrographic surveys, bridge
structure mapping, public land corner retracement, right-of-way and
alignment survey, and property description research for a highway
improvement and bridge reconstruction project. |
| 1993-98; Project: Alternative
Alignments for a Bypass of U.S. 31 from Holland to Grand Haven in Allegan
and Ottawa Counties
Client: Greiner, Inc. (MDOT)
Tasks:
Compilation of property data in conjunction with development of computer
data base algorithms to analyze right-of-way acquisition costs, precision
elevation control and procurement of Global Positioning System field data. |
| 1994-95; Project: Woodward Avenue
(M-1) - Oakland County
Client: Michigan Department of Transportation
Tasks:
Electronic field data collection, computer mapping, precision elevation
control, procurement of Global Positioning System field data and highway
alignment for a 4.3 mile long pavement rehabilitation project. |
| 1995; Project: Sports and
Recreation Buildings - Detroit
Client: Terracom Development, Inc.
Tasks:
Property boundary confirmation and construction layout of steel columns,
utilities, mass grading, curbs and other improvements for three large retail
stores. |
1997-98;
Project: Highway M-40, I-196 to N. of the N. Branch of the Macatawa River
- Allegan CountyClient: HH Engineering, Ltd.
Tasks:
Precise control survey, topographical survey, utility locations,
hydraulic survey, public land corner retracement, right-of-way alignment,
and property description research. |
| 1997-98; Project: US-131 Bridges -
Park St., West River Dr., & Six Mile Rd., Grand Rapids
Client: Alfred Benesch & Company
Tasks:
Precise horizontal and vertical control surveys, topographic/structure
surveys and utility surveys covering five bridges and approaches. |
| 1999; Project: Highway US-131 at
76th Street
Client: Michigan Department of Transportation
Tasks:
Precise control survey, topographical survey, property line determination
surveys, utility survey, public land corner retracement, right-of-way
survey, and alignment survey. |
| 1999; Project: Detroit Downtown
People Mover
Client: Turner Construction Company & Atlas Railroad Construction
Company
Tasks:
Construction layout for rails atop new guideway beams to replace
area damaged as the result of the demolition (implosion) of the Hudson's
building in downtown Detroit. More
Details |
| 1999; Project: Detroit New Center
Station & Intermodal Transportation Complex - Amtrak
Client: Consoer, Townsend, Envirodyne Engineers, Inc.
Tasks:
Topographical, utility and boundary surveys. |
| 1999-2000; Project: Highway M-39
from south of Outer Dr. to south of Ford Road - Wayne County
Client: BRW, Inc. (now URS Corporation)
Tasks:
Utility inventory and invert measurements, bridge mapping and
underclearances, precision horizontal and vertical control survey, and
miscellaneous topographical surveys. |
| 2000; Project: I-75 from Goddard
Road to the Rouge River Bridge - Detroit Area, Wayne County
Client: Alfred Benesch & Company
Tasks:
Utility inventory and invert measurements, bridge mapping (7 bridges) and
underclearances, precision horizontal and vertical control survey, and
miscellaneous topographical surveys. |
| 1998-2000; Project: "S" Curve US-131 from
Wealthy St. to Pearl St., Grand Rapids
Client: Alfred Benesch & Company
Tasks:
Precise control survey, property line determination surveys, pick up
topography, utility surveys, public land corner retracement, and
determination of rights-of-way. |
| 2001-2002; Project: M-59, from
Crooks Road to Ryan Road, City of Rochester Hills
Client: HNTB
Tasks:
Precise control survey, pick up topography, utility surveys, public land
corner retracement, and determination of rights-of-way. |
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Advanced Geomatics, under the direction of its current
supervisory personnel, has accrued a vast cross section of varied and well
rounded professional experience via its activities in some thirty-five Michigan
counties in both of Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, and additionally has
provided its surveying expertise relative to a substantial deep tunnelling
project in Cook County, State of Illinois. This is united with the individual
expertise and diverse experiences brought into the organization by the Company's
current employees.
EQUIPMENT
Advanced Geomatics is well equipped with the latest in both field and office
equipment to support its land surveying, construction surveying, and
professional engineering activities.
The application of modern technology has become indispensable in obtaining
fast, efficient, and accurate survey field work. The company utilizes
sophisticated field equipment, like the Geodimeter 620, Zeiss Elta 2, Sokkisha (Lietz)
SET2, Topcon GTS601AF, Topcon GPT2003, and Leica TCR303 high precision
electronic total stations, Pentax AL automatic levels with optical micrometers,
Zeiss Dini 20 and Trimble Dini 22 electronic levels, TDS Ranger and Huskey FS-2
hand-held computers/data collectors, and Ashtech Extreme dual frequency GPS
receivers.
The company also employs a variety of personal computers, work stations, and
programmable hand-held calculators to solve the many mathematical problems
associated with its surveying activities. Computer automated drafting (CAD) is
implemented with ink jet plotters and is generated using Tech-Mac PC, AutoCad,
Land Desktop, Microstation, and Eagle Point software. Conversions of CAD files
between AutoCAD and Microstation are accomplished using DGNLink 6 software by
Decision Graphics. Network adjustments are accomplished employing Starplus
Star*Net, Star*Link and Star*Lev least squares adjustment software. Global
Positioning System computations are accomplished with Ashtech Solutions
software.
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