In a first of its kind effort, the Bureau of Reclamation’s Engineering Services Office in Boulder City, NV, built a detailed, highly accurate, as-built model of Hoover Dam’s 75-year-old Monument Plaza using high-definition surveying technology from Leica Geosystems. The terrazzo floor is cracking and showing weather damage as are some of the bronze features on the Plaza, likely due to weather, pedestrian traffic and age. To determine repair or rehabilitation options, Reclamation needed as-built data of the Plaza to within a fraction of an inch. Read More
