Company Background
Minister & Glaeser Surveying, Inc. was formed in March 1983 by Bolton C. Minister and Robert W. Glaeser. Since that time the company has been completed a variety of surveying projects ranging from residential lot surveys to large construction projects and federal architect and engineering contracts. Clients include private property owners, developers, general contractors, engineering firms, and city, county, state and federal agencies.
Minister & Glaeser Surveying, Inc. has maintained an office in Vancouver, Washington since 1983 and added an office in Pasco, Washington in 2002.
On December 31, 2002, the firm was sold to Edmund Denny, David Denny, Kevin Bethje and Daniel Renton. The new principals are all long-term employees of the firm.
The principals and key personnel of Minister and Glaeser Surveying, Inc. are Professional Land Surveyors who are licensed in the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, Montana, and Arizona.
The firm has 20 employees, including 7 licensed surveyors, and the vehicles and equipment for 10 field crews.
Minister and Glaeser Surveying, Inc. is proud of our record of performing projects safely, efficiently, on schedule and within budget. Our company has always established and maintained a good working relationship with our clients. We have received several letters of commendation for past performance on some of these survey contracts.
Principals
Edmund Denny
Professional Land Surveyor, Principal, Project Manager
ed@mgsurvey.com
Registration:
1995 / Professional Land Surveyor, Washington #32451
1994 / Professional Land Surveyor, Oregon #2662
2008 / Certified Federal Surveyor #1192
2009 / Professional Land Surveyor, Arizona #49193
Edmund has worked as a project surveyor on a variety of projects throughout the Pacific Northwest for 32 years. He is an experienced and qualified Professional Land Surveyor.
His skills include:
- horizontal and vertical control surveys
- site and topographic surveys for engineering design
- boundary surveys
- ALTA surveys
- subdivision surveys
- construction surveys
- AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD Land Desktop 2009 and AutoCAD Civil 3d 2010 for the use of survey and construction calculations
- tracing and computing riparian boundaries
- all aspects of data research
- preparation of legal descriptions
- calculations for boundary and construction surveys
Ed has been in charge of several large-scale construction projects, such as Light Rail projects (Portland Oregon, Sacramento California and Long Beach to Los Angeles California.) Edmund prides himself on implementing procedures and checks along with communication to minimize professional liability.
Daniel Renton
Professional Land Surveyor, Principal, Project Manager
dar@mgsurvey.com
Education:
Southern Oregon State College / BS / 1985 / Science and Mathematics
Oregon State University / BS/ 1995 / Civil Engineering
Registration:
1996 / Engineer in Training, Oregon #2185
1997 / Professional Land Surveyor, Oregon #2830
2001 / Professional Land Surveyor, Idaho #10165
2001 / Professional Land Surveyor, Washington #37535
2002 / Certified Water Rights Examiner, Oregon #52790
Daniel has worked as a party chief and project surveyor on a variety of projects throughout the Pacific Northwest for 20 years. He is an experienced and qualified Professional Land Surveyor. He has extensive experience in performing and supervising surveys in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. He is responsible for supervising global positioning system surveys, horizontal and vertical control surveys, ALTA surveys, topographic surveys for schools, boundary surveys for schools, construction surveys for schools, lot-line adjustment surveys, and quantity calculations. He is an expert in GPS Survey methods, using Real Time Kinematic (RTK), and post processed static GPS to establish geodetic control for state plane coordinate systems. He is experienced in using AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD Land Desktop 2009, Civil 3D, MicroStation V8 and Inroads V8 for digital terrain modeling and survey calculations.
David Denny
Professional Land Surveyor, Principal, Project Manager
dad@mgsurvey.com
Registration:
1998 / Professional Land Surveyor, Washington #35477
1997 / Professional Land Surveyor, Oregon #2804
David has worked as a party chief and project surveyor on a variety of projects throughout the Pacific Northwest for 31 years. He is an experienced and qualified Professional Land Surveyor. He is proficient at calculations for the location and relocations of boundaries per the B.L.M. Manual of Survey Instructions. His expertise includes:
- horizontal and vertical control surveys
- subdivision surveys
- lot-line adjustment surveys
- topographic surveys for schools
- construction surveys
- ALTA surveys
- locating and setting aerial photo pre-marks
- data collection surveys for engineering design
- AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD Land Desktop 2009 and AutoCAD Civil 3d 2010 for the use of survey and construction calculations
- tracing and computing riparian boundaries
- all aspects of data research
- preparation of legal descriptions
- calculations for boundary and construction surveys
He is responsible for survey data research, preparation of plats and for preparation of legal descriptions. He is also responsible for scheduling field crews and insuring the quality of the work performed.
Kevin Bethje
Professional Land Surveyor, Principal, Project Manager
klb@mgsurvey.com
Education: Lower Columbia College / AA / 1994 / Science
Registration:
2002 / Professional Land Surveyor, Washington #38490
2001 / Professional Land Surveyor, Oregon #55437
2001 / Professional Land Surveyor, Idaho #10134
2003 / Professional Land Surveyor. Montana #16204
Kevin has worked as a party chief and project surveyor on a variety of projects throughout the Pacific Northwest for 18 years. He is an experienced and qualified Professional Land Surveyor. He has extensive experience in performing and supervising surveys in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. He is responsible for supervising horizontal and vertical control surveys, ALTA surveys, topographic surveys for schools, boundary surveys for schools, construction surveys for schools, lot-line adjustment surveys, and quantity calculations. He is experienced in using AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD Land Desktop 2009, Civil 3D, MicroStation V8 and Inroads V8 for digital terrain modeling and survey calculations. He is responsible for survey data research, preparation of plats and for preparation of legal descriptions. He is responsible for scheduling field crews and insuring the quality of the work performed.