Government Experience

EMC, Inc. has managed numerous government contracts consisting of hundreds of delivery orders totaling millions of dollars in fees. These delivery orders included such highly specialized projects as a L1/L2 GPS, testing of Coast Guard Navbeacon for the COE, and specialized programs for COE, multi-beam, photogrammetry, and boundary litigation. For these forty contracts, EMC has received numerous excellent and above average ratings. All projects have begun on time and maintained project schedules. When a project is delayed for any reason (weather, site conditions, etc.), we keep our clients informed and strive to make up for delays by working overtime or assigning additional personnel.

EMC has an exceptional record of cost control in the previous contracts. The Quality of Work and Compliance with Performance Schedules are enforced in the work flows and procedures in all projects for our in-house personnel and our sub-contractors.

Summary of EMC’s experience with government contracts:

• Twenty-Five years performing land and boundary surveys

• Twenty-Five years performing survey engineering projects

• Twenty-Five years developing automated topographic surveys with total stations and data collectors

• Twenty-Two years performing first order horizontal and vertical control surveys including; Twenty with GPS

• Sixteen years performing surveys using RTK

• Twenty-Five years developing automated hydrographic surveys- Twenty years with DGPS

• Eighteen years using Multibeam hydrographic survey systems

• Twenty-One years collecting gauge and discharge measurements on the Mississippi River including ADCP Doppler surveys

Here’s a few of our Government Clients:

• NOAA

• USACE (United States Army Corps of Engineers)

• RCI (Residential Community Initiative)

• PAL (Privatization of Army Lodging)

• UPH (Unaccompanied Personal Housing)

• USFW (US Fish and Wildlife)

• NRCS (National Resource Conservation Service)

• DOT (Dept. of Transportation)

• Numerous other Government and Private entities

Project Experience Includes but is not limited to:

• Height Modernization Surveys, in Louisiana

• Bluebook ortho ties for grid points, output to NGS Bluebook formats and submitted to NGS

• Bluebook supplemental sp points, output to NGS Bluebook formats and submitted to NGS

• Bluebook grid points, using GPS high precision techniques

• Pictures ties using dual frequency fast static L1/L2 receivers

• Providing Primary control for numerous large survey projects

• Mississippi River Full Coverage Survey

• Miami Harbor Debris Survey

• Gulf of Mexico Debris Mapping

• Key West Dredging Survey

• Gulf of Mexico Pipeline Inspections

• Mobile Bay Yellow Hammer Pipeline

Energy & Distribution Surveys

Generating A Reliable Reputation

There are more demands on America’s power industry than ever before.  So, whether the job involves routing transmission lines, determining right of way, or locating tower sites, it’s more important than ever to get the most accurate and complete data possible, as fast as possible—the very best intelligence, in other words; and that means EMC Surveying, where we combine the finest talent with the industry's most advance tools and technology.  EMC's responsive, cutting-edge service puts your organization ahead every time.  

Services include, but not limited to:

• Transmission Line Location

• Transmission Line Mapping

• Utility Corridors

• Plan and Profile Preparation

• Realignment Surveys

• ROW Surveys

• Rebuild/As-Built

• Route Studies

• Substation Surveys

• Locating Tower Sites

• Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)

• Boundary Surveys

• Topographic Surveys

• Construction Staking/Layout

Recent Past Clients Include:

• Entergy

• Duke Energy

• Tallahatchie Valley Electric Power Association

• USACE, Norfolk

• USFW

• NRCS of Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida

• Mississippi Dept. of Transportation

• UPS

Oil & Gas Industry 

Gathering Insightful Information

EMC provides our clients in the oil and gas industry with pinpoint surveying and mapping services. By accurately and efficiently gathering the right data, EMC provides our clients with the information that affects well site position and construction. From providing the physical features of the terrain to locating hazardous structures, EMC maintains the professional staff and the state-of-the-art equipment needed to handle any surveying and mapping project for our oil and gas industry clients.

Gathering Data for

• Drill Site Location Surveys

• Well Site Location Surveys

• Well Site Construction Surveys

• As-Built Surveys

• Area Computations Surveys

• Pipeline and Well Detection Surveys

• Right-of-Way Surveys

• Easement Surveys

• Acquisition Surveys

• Alignment Surveys

• Boundary Surveys

• Topographic Surveys

• Map Preparation and Reproduction

Pipeline Surveys

Location, Location, & Location

EMC has extensive experience surveying oil and gas pipelines. Whether it is a small project or a project that will require multiple phases and multiple years, EMC has the equipment, the knowledge and the experience to manage any pipeline survey.

EMC has performed pipeline construction surveys including design, construction staking and as-built surveys. In addition, EMC has managed many right-of-way and easement surveys for a number of pipeline companies nationwide.

When locating existing pipelines, EMC uses the most efficient technique to locate the pipeline. Once EMC’s professional field crews have located the pipeline, we capture point locations using our state-of-the-art equipment. From these point files, we provide our clients with highly accurate maps and profile drawings.

Leading the Way in:

• Pipeline Construction Surveys

• Design, Staking, and As-Built

• Pipeline Location Surveys

• Pipeline Depth of Cover

• Right of Way

• Easement/Route Survey

• Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)

Here are a few of our recent clients:

• Atmos Energy

• Entergy Operations

• Entergy Nuclear

• Texas Gas Transmission, LLC

• Gulf South Pipeline Company, LP

• Statoil

• EOG Resources

• Shell Pipeline Company

• Chevron

• Boardwalk

• Exxon Mobil Corp

• Loop, LLC

• Justiss Oil and Gas

• Enterprise

• Central Louisiana Energy Pipeline, LLC.

Guiding Clients Through All Phases of Construction

On a regular basis, EMC’s team of professionals performs surveying and mapping services for construction projects. EMC has experience in all the facets of construction surveying and mapping such as design, layout, as-built, quantity, control surveys, and subsurface utility engineering. These surveys are typically done with RTK/total stations, automated hydrographic systems, and GPR. These methods of data collection provide EMC with a fast, efficient and accurate survey allowing us to complete the largest of projects in a timely fashion and on budget for our clients.

Experienced, Efficient & Accurate

• Levee Enlargements Surveys

• Revetment, Dike and Jetty Construction Surveys

• Control Structure Construction Surveys

• Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE Surveys)

• Lock and Dam Construction Surveys

• Minor Levee Construction and Repair Surveys

• Building Structure Surveys

• Road and Bridge Construction Surveys

• Pipeline Construction Surveys

• Telecommunication Construction Surveys

Recent Clients Include:

• Bertucci Contracting Corporation

• Manson Construction Company

• Toyota Manufacturing North America

• Nissan North America

• Manson Gulf

• Entergy Nuclear

• Kiewit Construction

• Gulf IntraCoastal Constructors

• Greenhorne & O’Mara

• Black & Veatech Corporation

• Robinson Construction

• Centex

• Kiewit Massman Taylor Construction

• USACE, New Orleans

• USACE, Vicksburg

• USACE, Jacksonville

• USACE, Mobile

• USACE, Memphis

• USACE, Norfolk

• USACE, St. Louis

Ensuring Safe Navigation, Construction & Maintenance

EMC can provide its clients with an accurate depiction of the existing bottom conditions with our state-of-the-art hydrographic surveying equipment.  This system can be paired with one of our mobile LiDAR systems to achieve full coverage.  This method allows for accurate clearance information needed for a safe navigational channel.  These surveys can be conducted in emergency situations which call for a rapid response or as a periodic monitoring survey to reflect, the ever-changing bottom of these navigational channels. 

In addition to ensuring the safe passage for vessels, EMC also has years of experience providing its clients with precise horizontal and vertical data collection and processing for dredge construction surveys.

Project Experience Includes, but not limited to:

• Mississippi River

• Yazoo River

• Red River

• Ouachita River

• Pearl River

• Black River

• Ten-Tom Waterway

• Pacific Ocean

• Gulf of Mexico

• Atlantic Ocean

• Tampa Harbor  

• Jacksonville Harbor

• Miami Harbor

• Steinahatciee River

• Pithlachascotte River

• St. Johns River

• St. Lucie River

• Intercoastal Waterway

• Mobile Bay

• San Francisco Bay

• Various harbors and channels

We have also performed pre- and post- annual revetment construction surveys on the Mississippi and Red Rivers.

Our multi-beam experience includes, but is not limited to:

• Mississippi River Full Coverage Survey

• Miami Harbor Debris Survey

• Gulf of Mexico Debris Mapping

• Key West Dredging Survey

• Gulf of Mexico Pipeline Inspections

• Mobile Bay Yellowhammer Pipeline

our single beam Project Experience Includes:

• Hydrographic sections on the Mississippi River, Black River, Yazoo River, Tallahatchie River, Yalobusha River, Red River, Ouachita River, Arkansas River, St. Francis River, White River, Wolf River, Loosahatchie River, Rio De La Plata River, Kissimmee River, Atchafalaya River, Tenn-Tom Waterway, St. Lucie Canal, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Hydrographic data has also been developed on hundreds of tributaries of these major rivers whenever it was required.

• Overbank surveys on shorelines along the Mississippi River, Yazoo River, Red River, St. Francis River, White River, Wolf River, Atchafalaya River, Rio De La Plata, Nonconnah Creek, Cache River, Homochitto River, and beaches along the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea. Hundreds of topographic surveys have also been developed on numerous tributaries of these major rivers.

• Plans and specification surveys on the Mississippi River, Red River, Yazoo River, St. Johns River, Ponce De Leon Inlet, Mayport Harbor, St. Lucie Inlet, Intercoastal Waterway, St. Francis, White River, and the Wolf River. Additional experience has been developed on numerous tributaries of these major rivers.

• Discharge measurements on the Mississippi, Red, Black and Ouachita Rivers utilizing Acoustic Doppler Profiling System

• Reading and maintenance of stream gages on the Mississippi River, Red River, and small streams

• Potomology surveys on the Mississippi River

• Navigation surveys on the Mississippi River

• Beach erosion surveys along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico