Purposes and Equipment

Surveying has become and indispensable element of today's world of construction. Large and complex construction projects include surveyors or geodesists as a matter of course. However, site foremen, civil engineers and architects also all use modern, digital surveying technologies. The faculty's students receive both a theoretical and practical training in modern surveying.

Students of the bachelor's program in civil engineering complete four exercises in using the leveling instrument and tachymeter in their first semester. Procedures that were presented theoretically in lectures come to life in practical surveying work, from checking the level's line of collimation to leveling with foresight, backsight and intermediate sight to determining survey points from different positions to the tachymetric plotting of calculated points. In this way, future engineers learn to judge independently in what situations surveying provides higher accuracy, safety and efficiency.

The lab is equipped with all necessary equipment for professional architectural surveying. It owns a number of tachymeters, digital and analog leveling instruments and all accessories requisite for the surveying process. Beyond this, the lab can also draw on a collection of instruments of historical interest such as theodolites and dumpy levels.

Students record their lab classes in written reports. This documentation is a mandatory for successful completion of the course and a prerequisite for the surveying examination at the end of the first semester.

Lab Director: Professor Corinna Rohn
Staff: Ute Berning, Certified Engineer, and Frans Gall, Certified Engineer

Location and Contact

Building D, room 162

The lab has the room number 162 and is located in the basement of the western laboratory wing of building D on the Kurt-Schumacher-Ring Campus of RheinMain University of Applied Sciences. Lab staff can be reached at their laboratories.

Office Hours: Students use the lab by arrangement and during the posted hours.

Phone:  +49 (0)611-9495-1-456
Fax:      +49 (0)611-9495-1-490
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