What Do Land Surveyors Do?

Registered Land Surveyors are professionals licensed to accurately represent property boundaries on plans. This service forms an essential element of property transactions such as buying and selling, mortgaging and leasing.

Surveyors are at the core of any construction site, taking measurements of its terrain to ensure buildings fit seamlessly with nature and allow engineers to execute their designs exactly.

Land Surveying

Land surveyors are highly-skilled professionals who use both mathematics and advanced technologies to map an area. The data gathered can then be used to establish property lines, legal boundaries, contours and more. Land surveyors work both in offices as well as out on site utilizing various equipment like high order GPS receivers, robotic total stations (theodolites) as well as aerial and terrestrial scanners.

Before purchasing any property, it is highly advised that a qualified surveyor conduct an identification survey on it to identify any existing structures, easements or encumbrances on it as well as any potential issues such as boundary encroachments or building restrictions that could potentially arise from its purchase.

Surveyors often offer services involving “setting out” a site. This involves marking out the primary property boundaries and creating preliminary markers so your builder can follow them to ensure your home is being built exactly where it should be and according to its original building plans.

Volume Surveys

If you need to calculate stockpile volume or quarry extraction volumes on your site, ground surveys can be carried out with GPS and survey software to map features and create a digital terrain model – providing more precise and accurate results than aerial surveys.

Construction surveys can also be used to monitor progress at construction sites and ensure their surface design corresponds with actual builds. They’re an invaluable milestone for project managers and engineers who use these surveys as early warning system against deviations that arise during development.

Traditional land surveying methods can take days to complete; in contrast, drone mapping can be completed quickly and easily with little cost involved. As such, drone mapping offers an efficient solution for monitoring earthwork and material management on large-scale construction projects as well as tracking rate of movement over time allowing more accurate estimations between surveys – it could even serve as an alternative or supplement to weigh bridges; additionally it could even be used for volume surveying of landfills or quarry excavation ponds.

Boundary Surveys

If you’re planning on purchasing real estate, conducting a boundary survey will allow you to identify any issues with its true boundaries. After conducting research at the land office and gathering plans and title certificates for your chosen property, a qualified surveyor will visit and take physical measurements at each property on its location.

Boundary surveys can serve many functions, from due diligence when purchasing a home or development site to helping resolve boundary disputes and identify easements or restrictions that prevent renovation or expansion to your house.

Your property may require a boundary survey when installing fences, driveways, or buildings on it. With clear boundary lines in place can prevent encroachment by neighbors and save money in the long run. Lending companies often require proof of an accurate survey before lending on a property – our experienced team offers complete range of onsite and offsite boundary surveys for this purpose.

Strata Surveys

If you are planning a new development of townhouses or apartments, hire experienced professionals. They can create a detailed survey / Contour survey report as well as draft strata plans and deeds suitable for submission to local council.

Once the Strata Plan has been approved by local council, it can be submitted to NSW Land Registry Services in order to create separate Strata lots and Common Property. Once this step has been taken an Owners Corporation will need to be created in order to manage and administer the Scheme.

An Identification Survey, or “Ident Survey,” is often conducted as part of the conveyancing process to detect any structures, easements or encumbrances on a parcel of land that affect its use or value. Furthermore, such an audit can reveal any potential flood risks and recommend any necessary precautions or mitigation strategies.

Existing apartment buildings or factory complexes owned on company title may be converted to a Strata scheme with council approval and expert surveyor advice, thereby helping reduce expenses and liabilities while enabling individual owners to take out mortgages more easily.

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