To design and build any structure with confidence, you need to know the lay of the land – literally. That means having the information you need, in a format, you can work with. Accurate ground and feature data are essential for the efficient planning and design of development works.
Whether you’re building a house, planning a large-scale subdivision or designing infrastructure a quality topographical survey is imperative. Any designer will tell you that a quality design depends on quality information – and not all topographic surveys are equal.
Our Topographical site surveys measure ground contours and record site features such as buildings, trees, fences, spot heights, public drainage services and other service locations, the boundary with occupations etc and can be customised to your end needs. Above picture shows a sample of our topographical plans.
We have the latest survey equipment and software, which assists our staff to produce top quality topographical site plans of your land. The plan produced will assist you, your architect and engineer to accurately design your project. We will provide you with a compatible price with the earliest time for field survey followed by the final plan in a few days later. Please fill the Request a Quote form and give us required information about your project.
A survey locating topographic features – natural and man-made, such as buildings, improvements, fences, elevations, trees, streams, contours of the land, etc.
It really depends on the availability of survey information in the area, the extent of the land, the slope and amount of vegetation in the land and some other factors. We at Survplanz provide a table for calculating the price of a Topographical Survey. You can find this table in Pricing Page.
To design and build any structure with confidence, you need to know the lay of the land – literally. That means having the information you need, in a type of file that you can work with. Accurate ground and features data are essential for the efficient planning and design of development works. This type of survey may be required by a Council or may be used by engineers and/or architects for the design of improvements or developments on a site. Whether you’re building a house, planning a large-scale subdivision or designing infrastructure a quality topographical survey is imperative.
Depends on each project requirements would be different, but generally, we’ll show all below items if applicable in our topographical plan. If you or your architect/engineer need any extra survey information please let us know.
– Legal description; Lot, DP and street address
– Boundaries including bearing and distances
– Abuttals boundaries, Lots, and DP numbers
– Spot levels, occupation and levels along boundaries
– Land Contours at 0.5m and 1.0m intervals
– Structures and impermeable surfaces
– Building floor level, eaves, ridges, steps, and decks
– Significant trees identified
– Services like stormwater, wastewater, power and telecommunication
– Driveways, footpaths, and channels
– Other features like top and bottom of walls, banks, streamlines
– Datum identified
– North Point, Scale, Date, Job No, address and Client name
You can find a sample of our topographical plan on top of this page
We use a very good quality and modern equipment which helps us to increase our speed and accuracy but generally, fieldwork normally takes 1 or 2 days for most of the normal site surveys.
You will complete the request a quote form and explain what is your requirement. We’ll use our different software to collect required survey, and title information and also we’ll use google earth and google street view to see how your site looks like. then we’ll come back to you with our fee proposal. If you wish us to proceed based on a provided fee proposal, we’ll send you engagement form for your approval. immediately after that, we’ll arrange the fieldwork date. We’ll come to the site on a date we agreed and complete the fieldwork. Now the first stage is done, we only need a few days to process your plan and send it to you.
We are working outside of the building and there is no need for you to be at home, However, we need you to be at home if you need to unlock the gates, or restrain your dog/s.
We’ll send you a PDF file and also a DWG file which is work for ACAD 2000 and above. Some architect also needs ACAD 3d or Tin file, that we can provide them as well without any extra cost.
We help you to find your property boundary lines in the following cases:
To get more information for the value of this service provide us with your details in the “Request a Quote” field. Please also note that Only a Licensed Cadastral Surveyor (LCS) can provide a redefinition survey service
FAQ:
What is the process for boundary redefinition?
When you accept our quote, we’ll search all existing evidence including plans provided by LINZ and calculate the boundaries and ties from existing survey references to those boundaries. With all required information, we will come to your site to either find the old pegs or mark out the legal boundary corners of the site. Extra marks or pegs can also be placed along the line of any legal boundary or offset from any boundary line if required.
Do we need to be at home when you are at the site?
We are working around the boundary and you don’t need to be at home but please make sure that we have access to boundary corners; it means no dogs and no locked gates. When we finished the marking we’ll place a stake by each mark, so will find them easily.
Who is the authorised person to place the boundary pegs?
Only a Licensed Cadastral Surveyor can legally undertake cadastral surveys to redefine boundaries
How much does it cost to survey a boundary?
There are so many factors involved to estimate the cost of the survey but our fees start from $550 plus GST and disbursement for a very basic road frontage survey. Contact us now to get a free quote for your boundary survey.
How can we find boundary marks by ourselves?
First, try to find the old pegs around corner posts of the fence or old boundary disks on top of the posts, if you were not successful, talk to your neighbours, if your neighbours have identified their property lines, you could request property line information from them directly. If you were not successful and still don’t want to involve surveyors on your job, you still have this choice to carry on by your self in your free time to find the old marks.
“You’ve heard it said that the job isn’t over till the paperwork is done? In this job, the paperwork comes first. Don’t set foot outside until you have in hand every document that could help. A copy of your title and survey plan will have that information.”
Usually, each boundary on a survey plan will have a bearing and distance next to it. If your distances were on links multiply the number of links by 0.201168 to give the distance in metres.
You are now nearly ready to step into the surveyor’s shoes. I found this article “Perform Your Own Home Property Survey” helpful if you only want to find the old marks but please note that in NZ only Licensed Surveyors allowed to redefine or mark the boundaries. Contact us now to get a free quote.
