Construction Disasters.
When Surveying Failures Cost Millions.

Stop just reading about procedures. Transform your mandatory Continuing Education into cautionary tales you'll never forget. Learn what happens when surveying principles are ignored and how to prevent catastrophic failures on every job.

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40 Years Experience

We Don't Teach Disaster Prevention We Show You the Wreckage

You're not reading about best practices. You're standing in the aftermath of the Arizona Mall collapse, the highway built on the wrong alignment, and the home constructed on someone else's lot. You see the lawsuits, the financial ruin, and the destroyed reputations. The question isn't academic anymore: Could this happen on your project?

The Lessons From Construction Disasters CE courses include:

  • 15-Minute Micro-Lessons
  • Bite-sized episodes fit any schedule. Pause when you arrive at the site, resume when you leave.
  • Professional Production
  • Voice-over narration, sound design, and scoring. No robotic voices or echoey webinar audio.

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Why Continuing Education Courses Usually Fall Short

(And why this course is different)
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Traditional CE Courses

  • ⊘ Someone reading safety checklists like a grocery list with no context
  • ⊘ Abstract warnings you'll forget before your next construction stakeout
  • ⊘ Slide after slide of procedures with no connection to real disasters
  • ⊘ Generic scenarios that ignore the catastrophic cost of surveying failures
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Survey Life CE Courses NEW

  • ★ Experience how million-dollar disasters unfold when surveying is skipped or done wrong
  • ★ Learn not just WHAT went wrong, but HOW to prevent it on your projects
  • ★ Absorb lessons through disasters that stick—not procedures you'll forget tomorrow
  • ★ 40 years of surveying experience distilled into cautionary tales that sharpen your judgment.

COURSE OVERVIEW

The Lessons From Real Construction Disasters

Professional surveying prevents catastrophic failures. But reading procedures isn't the same as understanding what happens when they're ignored. This course bridges that gap. You'll experience how surveying failures escalate into million-dollar disasters. Where corners were cut. Where assumptions proved deadly. Where the "small mistake" wasn't clear until buildings collapsed or families lost everything. These aren't just lessons. They're the collective cautionary tales of surveyors across generations.

Where evidence is incomplete. Where the "right" answer isn't clear until you understand the full context.

  • 1 Hour (4 x 15min Audio Lessons)
  • Includes Assessment & Certificate

Single Course
$25
1 HR CE Credit
Construction Disasters
One Year Access
Certificate Included
Four 15-Minute Lessons
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Our Confidence Guarantee

Refund Policy & Course Standards - Because your completion certificate is issued immediately upon course completion, all sales are final and refunds cannot be issued. Survey Life CE courses are developed in alignment with NCEES continuing education guidelines and are designed specifically for professional land surveyors. Each course is built from over 40 years of real-world field experience and presented through deep-immersion narrative instruction focused on real surveying situations, legal principles, and professional decision-making.

"You're not just getting your CE credits - you're investing in professional development that will actually make you a better surveyor." – Dan Provolt, PLS

40+ Years in the Field. 30 Years Licensed. Two Successful Surveying Businesses. Countless Boundary Decisions.

In the process of researching, gathering stories, and crafting a better way for all of us as surveyors to learn, grow, and refine our judgment, I discovered a wealth of knowledge out there, just waiting to be heard. And, I learned so much more myself while creating these courses.

These lessons draw not only from my own forty years in the field, but from the shared experiences, insights, missteps, breakthroughs, and hard-won wisdom of countless surveyors who came before us and who work beside us today.

As I assembled these narratives, I revisited my own past mistakes, near misses, small triumphs, and moments of clarity. But more importantly, I recognized how many of the challenges we face, boundary puzzles, legal conflicts, ethical dilemmas, and split-second field decisions, are universal across our profession.

  • Licensed PLS (30 Years)
  • Thousands of field hours on complex boundary projects
  • Survey Business (23 Years)
  • Expert-witness testimony and courtroom experience
  • Registered Course Developer

Frequently Asked Questions

 No. Survey Life CE uses immersive storytelling with professional voice-over, background music, and real-world scenarios. You'll experience surveying at its most critical moments—boundary discoveries, courtroom testimony, ethical dilemmas, and professional disasters. It's designed to be engaging, memorable, and practical.

All Survey Life CE courses comply with NCEES (National Council of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors) Continuing Professional Competency Guidelines. Our 40-year PLS instructor, Course and time tracking, Student Dashboard Records, Automated certificates of course completion, Course Quiz and certification of passing score. The Course subject matter applies directly towards improving the surveyor's knowledge and training. Our Audio delivery method is explicitly approved by NCEES Model Rules Section 2.3.1(c)  

Survey Life CE courses are in alignment with the requirements of NCEES and the following list of states that do not require pre-approval, but do rely on the above standards. The states not listed either do not require continuing education or have particular state-centered pre-approval courses.

Tap the URL on your cell phone or, if on your lap top, Drag across and right-click on your state URL below. Select the"open" option to access their Continuing Education Requirements page. 

It is your responsibility, as a licensed Land Surveyor, to check your state's Continuing Education Requirements.

ALABAMA 
https://bels.alabama.gov/faqs/

ALASKA     https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/cbpl/professionallicensing/boardofarchitectsengineersandlandsurveyors.aspx           

ARKANSAS                                                                     https://labor.arkansas.gov/licensing/state-board-of-licensure-for-professional-engineers-and-professional-surveyors/license-renewal/

COLORADO                                                                                                     

https://dpo.colorado.gov/AES/CE

IDAHO   

https://dopl.idaho.gov/ipels/ipels-cpd/

ILLINOIS

https://idfpr.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idfpr/forms/dpr/ls-renewal-pdh-requirements.pdf

IOWA

https://www.legis.iowa.gov/law/administrativeRules/rules?agency=193C&chapter=7&pubDate=02-04-2026

KANSAS

https://www.ksbtp.ks.gov/for-individuals/continuing-education/guidelines

LOUISIANA

https://www.lapels.com/docs/CPD/CPD_Audit_Transition_Examples.pdf

MAINE

https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/board-licensure-professional-land-surveyors

MICHIGAN

https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/michigan/department-licensing-and-regulatory-affairs/bureau-of-professional-licensing/professional-surveyors/professional-surveyors/part-5

MINNESOTA

https://mn.gov/aelslagid/continuinged.html

MISSISSIPPI

https://www.pepls.ms.gov/continuing-education

MONTANA

https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/montana/ARM-24-183-2105

NEBRASKA

https://nbels.nebraska.gov/profdev.html

NEVADA

https://nvbpels.org/continuing-education/

NEW MEXICO

https://www.sblpes.state.nm.us/license-renewal/

NORTH CAROLINA

https://www.ncbels.org/continuing-education/individuals/

NORTH DAKOTA

https://ndpelsboard.org/continuing-education/

OHIO

https://peps.ohio.gov/education-and-verification/continuing-education/provider-guidelines

OKLAHOMA

https://oklahoma.gov/pes/current-licensees-and-firms-/continuing-education-requirements.html

OREGON

https://www.oregon.gov/osbeels/maintaining/Pages/Continuing-Education-Information.aspx

PENNSYLVANIA

https://pcpg.org/ContinuingEdFAQs

SOUTH CAROLINA

https://llr.sc.gov/eng/PDF_Files/CPC.PDF

SOUTH DAKOTA

https://dlr.sd.gov/btp/forms_applications.aspx

TEXAS

https://pels.texas.gov/lscep.htm

UTAH

https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/utah/Utah-Admin-Code-R156-22-304

VIRGINIA

https://law.lis.virginia.gov/admincode/title18/agency10/chapter20/section683/

WASHINGTON

https://app.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=196-16&full=true

WEST VIRGINIA

https://wvbps.wv.gov/law

WISCONSON

https://dsps.wi.gov/Pages/Professions/LandSurveyorProfessional/CE.aspx

WYOMING

https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/wyoming/037-4-Wyo-Code-R-SS-4-2

Absolutely! That's exactly what Survey Life CE is designed for. Plug in headphones or connect to your truck's audio system and listen while you drive to and from work. While eating lunch or waiting at the job site. Just be safe and attentive while operating vehicles.

After completing each 1-hour tracked course (four 15-minute lessons) along with a personal sign-off testifying the passing of the quiz with 75% or higher, you'll instantly receive a downloadable certificate of completion.

If you fail the quiz you'll be able to re-listen to the audio lessons and retake the quiz. You simply missed something important.

Your License Deserves More Than a Checkbox.

Transform your mandatory continuing education into immersive professional development that actually makes you a better surveyor.

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