Sylvain Legat is a Belgian land surveyor with over 20 years of experience working on projects across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. He has extensive experience managing survey teams and projects in various industries including construction, oil/gas, mining, transportation, and utilities. Legat holds degrees in land surveying and construction supervision and regularly trains on the latest surveying equipment and software. He is proficient in both English and Dutch.

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Sylvain LEGAT
73 rue Petite 7050 HERCHIES BELGIUM
Born 03/28/1974
0032-65/97.32.95
Single, willing to relocate worldwide
sylvainlegat@yahoo.fr
http://www.123siteweb.fr/topographe-landsurveyor
http://www.prfwebsite.com/disc.php?rid=1349871277
INTERNATIONAL LAND SURVEYOR SENIOR
A well trained team and a calibrated instrument give good precision to stake in & out
points. No mistakes in coordinates, no waste of time in execution
STUDIES
Study of land surveyor, 4 years at IRAM – Mons, Belgium (2001-2005)
Study of construction supervisor, 3 years at IEPS – Dour, Belgium (1998-2001)
POSITIONS
Chief of Survey Department
Consultant in starting up survey mission
Consultant in solving huge survey technical issues
Consultant in training of engineers and operators in survey activity
PROFESSIONAL RUN
Senior Land surveyor – FUGRO MIDDLE EAST – Basra, IRAQ (2013)
Survey work on field about setting network of primary order points, 2 operators
Stake in new benchmarks and check (post processing) after building these monuments
Land surveyor europe – DENSON – FRANCE ITALY BELGIUM (2013)
Survey work, positioning airports
Stake in five points around each airports to calibrate satellites images in wgs84
Party chief – ALSTOM – Constantine, ALGERIA (2012)
Project tramway 10 operators, 1 ingineer
Training of operators to tramway activity and making of procedures, stake in axe of project
Consultant formateur – AREVA – Desert, NIGER (2012)
Training of surveyors and engineers operators in uranium mine. 10 operators, two engineers
Train operators in the mining activity and in Trimble device. Development of procedures between
departments
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Party chief consultant – NMDC – Abu Dhabi, UAE (2011-2012)
Leading department building quay walls on superficial island and bathymetry. 22 operators
Data processing, drawing plans, progress reports, software set up and instruments calibrating. Loading
data in pc from instrument,cranes and boats. Earthworks and backfilling of the island at various layers
of materials.
Party chief – VINCI – N’djamena, TCHAD (2011)
Roads projects, construction of university, hotel and house of the president IDRISS DEBY. 18 operators
Leader of several fields, material providing, operators working planning. Stake in and out. Drawings of
as built projects
Land surveyor – GRDCONSULT – Ottignies, BELGIUM (2011)
First-reporting stake in/out streets and canalisations
Meetings, drawing of as built project. Setting quantity survey and invoices.
Party chief – SAIPEM – Arzew, ALGERIA (2010)
Positioning concrete box under the sea and stake in/out metallic structures, jetties, and acropodes. 20
operators.
Import export data into/from cranes to pause acropodes measures of level, bathymetry with jan de nul
Cie. Stake in and sink concrete box. Organize planning field actors. Drawing of jetties. Stake in metal
structures for stockage containers.
Party chief – BOUYGUES – Pointe Noire, CONGO (2009-2010)
Project of line and plant of very high tension electricity 40 operators
Engaging new operators. Stake in new bigger pylons and making of new methodology. Stake out
building and report that it has been built 1 meter offset. Collaboration concrete provider and welders,
then management of their own planning and teams in order to accelerate and get efficiency, has been
approved by Direction of project
Site Project manager – CSG (cegelec) – Kourou, GUYANE FRANCAISE (2008-2009)
Chief of department technical and topography metrology 4 operators 2 projectors
Prepare flight campaigns of the rocket ARIANE 5 (level of the rails to drive rocket to launch zone,
rocket position and its cryo harms, final assembly of rocket, Check position on launch tower and both
of the carneaux. Stake in SOYOUZ area.
Land surveyor – LGV RHIN RHONES – Besançon, Dijon, FRANCE (2008)
Railway, roads and bridges to stake in.
Stake in/out roads and rails, drawings of as built roads and bridges. Upload data to Machine guidance
system. Earthworks activity to follow each day.
All continents land surveyor – CGGVERITAS – Desert, OMAN (2008)
sismic and oil&gas 100 workers to lead
Leading teams in desert area, stake in of the sismic points for the guiding of
trucks.
the vibrators and labo
All continents land surveyor – CGGVERITAS – Desert, EGYPT (2007)
sismic and oil&gas, mine clearance 100 workers to lead
leading teams in desert area, stake in of the sismic points for the guiding of the vibrators and labo
trucks. Positioning of squared area in desert of El alamein, second war site in collaboration with
Egyptian army
All continents land surveyor – CGGVERITAS – Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA (2007)
sismic and oil&gas mining in lonmin project project 100 workers to lead
Leading teams in desert area, stake in of the sismic points for the guiding of the vibrators and labo
trucks.
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geometrology – CERN (geotop) – Genève, SUISSE (2006-2007)
Alignment of magnets of the collider
Positioning of the collider and experience areas such as ALICE Photogrammetry & scanning.
Land surveyor – Bureau SAVOIE – Ghlin, BELGIUM (2006)
Stake in/out of industrial buildings, big projects
Stake in streets and houses. Work with the SPaQUE. Calculating cubage. Drawing as built works.
Land surveyor – Bureau METRIC – Bruxelles, BELGIUM (2006)
Stake in/out of industrial buildings
Stake in streets and houses. Stake out industrial structures. Drawing as built sites
Land surveyor – Patrice DEBUYSCHEERE – Baudour, BELGIUM (2005-2006)
Stake in/out points and drawing
Stake in/out limits of properties. Stake out project TOTAL fuel tanking area Mons-Bruxelles
Construction supervisor – SOBOTRA sa et RL CONSTRUCT sa – BELGIUM & LUXEMBURG
(1996-2005)
50 workers to lead
ACTIVITIES
1. Onshore & Offshore
2. General survey with total station, scanner and GPS instruments
3. Adapted survey in:
 Spatial program
 Nuclear activity
 Very high intensity electricity
 Dredging
 Jetties and quay walls
 Roads and bridges
 Railways and tramways
 Pipeline setting
GPS (Gprs) work in all continents requiring notion in Geodesy and Geomatics.
Modes RTK, Post-processing.
TRAININGS
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Sea survival, first aid, fire fighting at ETSDC – Abu Dhabi, UAE
Environement ISO 9001 at Technocité – Mons,Belgium
Defensive driving at CGG – South Africa
Sea rescue and desert survival, first aid, fire fighting at CGG – Menton, France
Geology and sismic at CGG – Paris, France
Direction secretary at Cefora – Mons, Belgium
LEICA and TRIMBLE trainings each year!!
Dutch learnt in Netherlands
English learnt in UK
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SKILLS
Management of survey department:
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Ordering of adapted instruments
Calibrating instruments
Training of operators
Planning elaboration
Setting reports of technical data
Drawing in Autocad and Covadis
Setting reports of surveying procedures quality
Safety matter
Excellent skills in relationship with actors on field and customers.
Survey Instruments and softwares
Each year, i follow a training to update my knowledge in both labels :
LGO, ArcView, geode, gpsismic, grafnet, accrogrue, sitevision, terramodel, digmaster, PDS2000.
HOBBIES
Djing and Softair
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