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The APWA Monterey Bay Chapter hosted the Annual Awards Ceremony and the first general meeting of 2023 last night. Congratulations to all awardees. Job well done! As a bonus Wallace Group would like to celebrate Sarah Huffman on leading her first meeting as President of the APWA-Monterey Bay Chapter. Here’s to a prosperous year full of great success.

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...

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...