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The latest news and updates from the Wallace Group team.

What's a Point Cloud?

In honor of public works week we are featuring the first step in most infrastructure projects. Surveying. This image is a point cloud picture of an upcoming public works project in Avila Beach. It’s a bit technical but surveyors are a precise group of professionals. The Avila Valley Road and Highway 101, shown in point cloud. A point cloud is a dataset (often very large) that represents objects and features...
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Night Surfing Surveyor

Surfing is not a sport one would imagine taking place at night, but sometimes you have to jump in the water when the opportunity arises. Wallace Group’s surveyor Nick Sine has a busy schedule between work and family so after his kids go to sleep and if the waves are good he dons his wetsuit and a special high intensity headlight (literally, it’s a light on his head) and paddles...
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Mastication Madness

The Avila Beach Drive/US 101 #interchange project is moving forward into the final design phase! Brush clearing crews were at the future Park and Ride site to prep the area for additional #infiltration testing and utility investigation. This will help our team refine the park and ride layout, specifically for the underground #stormwater infiltration design. Wallace Group worked closely with #environmental specialists at the @CountyofSanLuisObispo to include monitoring/safety protocols in...
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Bob Jones Trail Gets a Boost!

Congratulations to the @SLOCountyGov for being awarded the second largest state Active Transportation Program grant for the Bob Jones Trail extension of the gap closure of the City-to-Sea path. The proposed Bob Jones Trail gap closure connects from the existing trail terminus near Avila/Pismo Beach at the Ontario Road park-and-ride lot to a new trail head at the Octagon Barn. This trail will be ~4.5 miles with portions that will...
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