Urban Design
The process of designing the locations of new urban and suburban streets including services and drainage is undertaken by a surveyor. Because the survey plan must determine the legal ownership of land for issue of titles, surveyors are the professionals most commonly deciding the location, size, shape and orientation of the new allotments for house sites.
If you are thinking about any urban development you should start with a surveyor.
Civil Engineering
The involvement of a surveyor is essential for all engineering projects whether they be large or small. Employing a surveyor ensures construction is in the right place and that levels and gradients are correct. When construction is completed the surveyor makes reliable “As-Built” drawings for the client and/or the district council.
Structural Works
With the aid of modern optical and electronic instruments or GPS, surveyors set out major structural works such as highways and high-rise buildings. DS Surveying was one of the first, if not the first practices in New Zealand to utilize GPS technology for Cadastral Surveying. At the outset , we really wondered if we had done the right thing, because it was such a new area and the Department of Survey and Land Information (as LINZ was at the time) wasn’t initially very comfortable with those surveys. Of course, GPS is now main stream for Cadastral work and well proven technology.
Before site works commence it is critical that the boundaries have been properly defined so that the setting out of the foundations, control of steel or reinforced concrete fabrication, building verticality, site drainage, location of services and access can proceed with confidence.