David Wellman is a professional Surveyor and Engineer registered to practice in Oregon, Washington and Maine being licensed to practice since 1985.David received classic forest engineering training from the University of Maine graduating in 1979 and had worked in the timber industry as a forest engineer and surveyor for over 10 years. As a forest engineer in the Pacific Northwest with the Weyerhaeuser Company David initially gained experience as a design engineer designing, creating and fabricating revolutionary orchard and harvesting equipment. He went on to become a District Engineer of the Cottage Grove Tree Farm responsible for designing, performing and managing the engineering requirements of harvest operations, road construction, road maintenance and survey activities on over 250,000 acres of industrial forest land.
David was retained in 1993 by a Eugene survey firm to manage the Weyerhaeuser account and survey needs of the same lands he oversaw while with Weyerhaeuser. Survey tasks were cadastral survey oriented with expanding duties into private party property, boundary, subdivision and partition surveys. Construction staking and topographic surveys for new development work became everyday tasks in addition to the cadastral work load.
D. Wellman Surveying LLC was established in 1999 and has operated as a full service survey company ever since. Emphasis has been with the telecommunications industry and the various associated survey needs required. In addition to the property and lease surveys for the landlord and tower locations, survey services include road design, boundary, site and topography surveys, easement creation for access and utilities, and FAA surveys for location, heights, and elevations. Traditional everyday survey tasks include construction layout surveys, land partitions both rural and in town, FEMA Elevation Certificates, ALTA commercial surveys, boundary and property line adjustment surveys. The varied work load requires an extensive knowledge of County and City planning and code requirements, legal description preparation and legal research functions. Dave has achieved a level of knowledge and business success and is recognized by local planners, engineers, title companies and legal council as a Firm to turn to for your survey needs.
D. Wellman Surveying LLC runs AutoCAD software, Starnet computation software, Leica survey and Trimble GPS equipment. D. Wellman Surveying is one of the few Northwest survey firms with Leica survey grade 3D laser scanning capabilities. Our 3D scanning projects have taken us to local and exotic locales working for engineering firms, Universities, and State Lands Departments.
Why choose D. Wellman Surveying?
- Our experience on various types of survey projects with different technologies coupled with our eye towards engineered solutions.
- Our desire to fully research a project with dogged determination to reach the correct and desired results.
- Our willingness to listen to client needs and coordinate the survey activity to those needs.
- We work well with allied professionals providing the information they need.
- You won’t get the “Big Company” run-around. Each client gets personalized service.