Gay and Neel, Inc. performed a comprehensive boundary and topographic survey of the Auburn Schools Campus in Riner, Virginia. This work was done for RRMM Architects and for use by OWPR Architects and Engineers for their design of a new high school on a vacant portion of the 70 acre site and additions and renovations to the existing high school which will be converted into an elementary school. The boundary survey included all legal research, field work and computations required to survey and plat the 8 parcels owned by the Montgomery County School Board and the county itself, as well as preparation of a Boundary Line Vacation plat to combine the parcels. These parcels varied in size from 0.3 acres to 39.9 acres and their legal descriptions dated as far back as the 1930’s. The topographic survey, which was prepared using both terrestrial survey and airborne photogrammetric mapping methods, included the entire 70 acre property which consists of the new high school site, the existing Auburn High School, Auburn Middle School, Auburn Elementary School and associated athletic facilities as well as the sites of the Riner Rescue Squad, Riner Volunteer Fire Department and a County solid waste collection and recycling facility.

Extensive detail was provided on utilities, including excavation for location and thorough measurements and location of the existing high school structure were provided for design of the additions to it.

As improvements to access and bus routing were an integral part of the design parameters, an additional 0.6 mile long corridor along Route 8, Riner Road, was also surveyed for design of improvements, such as turn lanes and medians, within the highway right-of-way.

The survey was tied to the Virginia State Plane Coordinates, NAD83 horizontal datum and NAVD88 vertical datum, using dual frequency GPS equipment operating in RTK (real-time kinematic) mode, tied to a virtual reference network base station and ground targeting and coordinates were provided to the Surveyor Photogrammetrist sub-consultant, Virginia Resource Mapping, Inc. for their use in generating the site topography and a high resolution digital orthophoto of the site.