Topographic surveys are required for
- subdivision consents
- house foundation design
- farm drainage design
- road design
- as-built surveys
- site surveys for building projects (Architects and architectural designers - please read the plea below!)
- and a host of other purposes.
Nicklin Surveying & Resource Management have access to all of the modern survey equipment for completing topographical surveys
- digital total stations
- robotic total stations
- survey grade GPS
- various processing software
A plea to the architectural profession! We carry out our site surveys in terms of a known coordinate system, whether that be a national coordinate system like Mt Eden Circuit or a local system, specially designed for the job. We always show the position of survey marks or the survey grid on the plans so that other professionals can measure up and add data in the same terms. However, we often get building projects to set out based on one of our site surveys where there is no reference to the survey coordinate system. This usually occurs in AutoCAD and other CAD programs when the site is rotated to better fit paper plans, and that process along with all of the survey marks being left off the plot, make it extremely difficult to easily establish the building grid for setting out by survey on the site. In theory, we should be able to pluck off setting out coordinates of grid intersections directly off the architectural plans. Unfortunately, this is usually not possible as the survey reference has been destroyed in the CAD design process. The end result of this is that our setting out costs more than it should because we have to do additional work to relate the architectural plans to our survey grid or marks.
Contact Nicklin Surveying & Resource Management for all of your topographic survey needs
