He is currently the Survey Practice Leader at Halff Associates, but most importantly, he is a devoted family man who really enjoys surveying. Vas is also an adjunct professor teaching the courses of GIS and Geodetic Surveying at DCCCD North Lake College since 2015. Since 2007 he has been coordinating the RPLS & SIT study groups in the DFW area while serving as the President of the TSPS Chapter 5 in 2021. Vas is a Licensed Surveyor in five (5) States, including the State of Texas. Since then, he managed several commercial improvement Surveys, right-of-way Surveys, FEMA Elevation Certificates, Oil & Gas and topographic surveying projects in various parts of Texas and other States. Vas moved to Dallas in 2005 and started working for Halff Associates, which is where he is still employed today. At the end of 2003 he served in the Greek Artillery where he continued working as a surveyor for various expeditions. At the end of the same year he received his license as a Professional Land Surveyor in Greece and then moved to the United Kingdom where he received his Master Degree in GIS in 2003. While working in the surveying industry he received a 5-year Bachelor’s Degree in Land Surveying Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece in 2001. Vas started his surveying career in Greece 25+ years ago through his surveying family business and is a third generation Surveyor.

Managing historic and new small-scale & large-scale Engineering projects before and after 2022.

The impact of the new DATUMs to various geographic regions of Texas after 2022.LandXML To Pipe Alignment LandXML.xsl (23 KB) The LandXML To Pipe Alignment. The principles of the new NGS 2022 Datum & LDPs Style Sheet Update Notes (46 KB) 12d fld format file.zip (322 KB) The 12d fld format file style sheet produces an output file in the 12d Model fld format to allow the field data to be imported directly into a 12d Model project.The learning objectives of this presentation will be to have a better understanding of:

The presentation will depict the impact of Surveying, GIS and Engineering projects based on the design and configuration of the NEW State Plane Coordinate Systems (SPCSs) and the Low Distortion Projections (LDPs).

National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is updating both the HORIZONTAL and VERTICAL DATUMS in 2022.

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