Setting out
Setting out works are used for a wide variety of projects, ranging from new road and building layouts to private house plots and site boundaries.
Setting-out works allow for the accurate location and orientation of the permanent design works to be established on site, and this is carried out by using the engineer's or architect's detailed design drawing, which is input directly into an electronic distance measurement total station (EDM) or global positioning unit (GPS) for subsequent setting-out on site. After setting out, all data is subsequently re-surveyed and downloaded onto the design drawing to ensure all data has been set out to the correct level of detail.
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All types of setting-out works are undertaken, ranging in size from smaller domestic house plots or boundary lines to major pipeline routes or wind farm developments, and all setting-out works are undertaken using the latest terrestrial or satellite-linked survey instrumentation.
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Structural deformation surveying
This survey method allows for the accurate monitoring of buildings, dams or areas of ground consolidation in order to establish if there is any movement from subsidence, nearby construction works or surcharge operations and to quantify any movement resulting from such operations.
By using electronic distance measurement (EDM) total stations, equipped with coaxially mounted lasers, any point on a building facade or other structure can be accurately recorded in three dimensions, without the need for scaffolding or mobile access platforms.
Mini reflective targets can also be positioned at key points on the particular structure to enable repeat monitoring works to be undertaken over a period of time.
Accurate monitoring services
The EDM can also be used to establish the verticality of a building facade where another structure has to be built in close proximity to it.
For ground compaction or ground consolidation works, electronic digital levelling is often used. This method is similar to traditional optical levelling, with the exception that the levelling is carried out by reading a special barcoded staff, which does not require visual observation, thereby greatly reducing human error inherent with more traditional forms of levelling.
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