Progress on Beaver Creek Road ERBR-79(04), Wilkinson County, MS
JKS was hired for the designing, surveying and the construction engineering & inspection for the replacement of Bridge SA79-082. The existing timber bridge will be replaced with a concrete poured in place bridge. The roadway length is 0.146 mile (773.7 feet) and bridge length is 0.042 mile (222 feet) totaling 0.188 mile for the project.
August 2021
June 2021
May 2021
April 2021
March 2021
January 2021
January 5, 2021 Vertical Piles and Batter Piles being installed
December 22, 2020 Piles
Congratulations to the 2021 Miss-Lou Graduates!
Wesley Callaway joins JKS as Engineer In Training
Wesley Callaway has joined Jordan, Kaiser & Sessions as an engineer in training.
Callaway, a native of Natchez, is a 2014 graduate of Cathedral High School and a 2019 graduate of Louisiana State University, where she earned her bachelor of science degree in civil engineering with a minor in structural engineering.
She is currently enrolled in the civil engineering master’s degree program at LSU and expects to earn her master’s degree in December of this year.
“I am always glad to have people who want to move back to Natchez and we are lucky to have someone of Wesley’s talent,” said C. Hayden Kaiser III, principal engineer at Jordan, Kaiser & Sessions. “She is bright and smart. She picks up on things quickly and she has a good future here in Natchez.”
While at LSU, Callaway was the president of the Civil Engineering Society. She interned with the U.S. Corps of Engineers and with the engineering firm of SDR Engineering Consultants, all while at LSU.
Following graduation, Callaway was employed as an engineer in training by SDR Engineering Consultants in Baton Rouge.
Callaway is the daughter of Bryan and Donna Callaway of Natchez. She is a member of Jefferson Street United Methodist Church.
Article by Natchez Democrat Staff.
National Surveyor Week: March 21-27, 2021
NATIONAL SURVEYORS WEEK
National Surveyors Week is celebrated every year starting with the third Sunday in March. The goal of the week is to educate the public through classroom contact, media, and visible public service.
Surveying has been a part of the advancement of civilization since the beginning of recorded history. It’s necessary to plan and build most earth-bound projects. The first examples in the history of land surveying date back to the ancient Egyptians during the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza in 2700 BC. It is also used in transport, communications, mapping, and the definition of legal boundaries for land ownership. It is an important tool for research in many other scientific disciplines.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says there are 43,400 surveyors in the United States. Surveyors are skilled or familiar with several fields: geometry, trigonometry, regression analysis, physics, engineering, meteorology, programming languages, and the law. While the basics of surveying are the same, the tools of surveying today are much more technical than they once were. Drones and lasers have replaced much of the telescope-on-a-tripod work. Remote sensing and satellite imagery continue to improve and become cheaper, allowing more commonplace use. One prominent new technology includes three-dimensional (3D) scanning.
HOW TO OBSERVE
Invite an engineering firm to speak to your group or class. Host a brown-bag lunch and have a surveyor speak at the lunch.
Follow on Social Media with #NationalSurveyorsWeek.
HISTORY
National Surveyors Week was proclaimed nationally by Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States of America, on February 13, 1984.
Natchez High School - New Construction
Recently, we were able to take some drone photos documenting the construction of the new Natchez High School. Check back regularly for more progress photos.
February 2021: Dirt Work for Construction
Crooked Creek Road - Wilkinson County, MS: EFLH-79(30)B, Site B
JKS was hired for the design and construction engineering of two road/bridge replacements on Cooked Creek Road in Wilkinson County, MS. Site “B” project length totaled .096 mile, including 200 feet of roadway. A timber bridge was replaced with a 14’x10’ box culvert. The length of the whole project totaled .102 mile.
August 2016
January 2017
March - April 2017
August 2017
Crooked Creek Road - Wilkinson County, MS: EFLH-79(30)B, Site A
JKS was hired for the design and construction engineering of two road/bridge replacements on Cooked Creek Road in Wilkinson County, MS. Site “A” project length totaled 351 feet (.065 mile), including 314.54 feet of roadway and 35.46 feet of bridge. A precast bridge was replaced with a 16’x6’ double box bridge.
July-December 2016
January 2017
February-March 2017
April 2017
