Surveyor Blog
Boundary Survey, Preston
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Ever the optimist, one has a go, but realistically there is no chance of achieving accurate satellite positioning in this scene. I did ultimately waste my time and ended up 500m from the site before I could get a fix. I was surveying the boundary of a property, so I could prepare a transfer plan for the Land Registry.
Topographical Survey, Lake Windermere
![Total station on a yellow tripod in front of a garden railing with a rolling field down to a lake and mountain on the other side.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/topographical-survey-windermere-1024x768.jpg)
Through the telescope I can see people eating sandwiches on the top Gummer’s How which I have walked up many times. I am actually here to map an intricate paving layout, so it can be removed then replaced after fixing a leak.
Land Surveying in Kendal
![Wooded small riverbank with a surveying instrument on a yellow tripod within the watercourse.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/river-topo-survey-kendal-1024x768.jpg)
A lidar drone might measure the banks easier than this, but I would still need the survey pole to measure the bed levels. Often there is no substitute for The Total Station. This survey is recording bank erosion and the undermining of a footbridge.
Land Surveying in Dowbiggin, Sedbergh
![Grey Trimble S8 total station on yellow tripod in front of a dry stone wall with green fields and a treeline in the distance.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/land-survey-dowbiggin-sedbergh-1-1024x768.jpg)
Garden surveyed for barn renovations works, Dowbiggin, Sedbergh. View of Aye Gill Pike in the background.
Scan to BIM, Lancaster
![Fenced stone wall ruin with a 3D scanner on Yellow tripod outside the gate.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/3d-scanning-roman-ruin-lancaster-1024x768.jpg)
3D scanning the Roman bath house in Lancaster. Technically, I am surveying the adjacent multi-storey car park, for renovation works. The pyramids are next.
Facade Scanning, Barrow-in-Furness
![3D Scanner on flat roof with Lakeland peaks marked with names and height in the distance.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/hospital-facade-plumbness-survey-barrow-in-furness-1-1024x768.jpeg)
3D scanning while checking out the view. I have walked up Scafell Pike, and Coniston of those. Using the scan data, we draw a true vertical model facade wall based on the building line at ground level. We can then compare that theoretical surface to the scan data. This will reveal how plumb the walls are, and potentially wall tie failure. We will present the data as per the example in Structural Monitoring.
As Built Check, Isle of Man
![Within an unfinished steel framed building on the concrete slab. A pickup truck and a survey instrument are at the back inside the hoarding.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/steel-plumb-check-isle-of-man-1024x768.jpg)
It is tight for parking in Douglas. Precision 3D scanning, a concrete basement, lift core, stair core and steel frame. Starting with the basics I levelled the top of baseplates then marked the column centres at 1 metre above the plate, I checked these to grid. We were then able to compare the as-built structural scanned surfaces with the design 3D Revit model. We prepared wall and steel column vertical face analysis checks. Followed by beam soffit horizontal checks. It was interesting to see that naturally the beams followed the baseplates.
Setting Out, near Kendal
![Hardcore building plot with wooden profile boards and setting pins painted orange.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/housing-plot-setting-out-gatebaeck-1024x768.jpg)
Setting out house plots with old school profiles with brick lines and pins on the foundation centre lines. If you are paying for setting out, you might as well have everything.
Land Surveying, Cautley, Sedbergh
![Grey total station on yellow tripod with rolling green hills in the background.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/land-survey-cautley-sedbergh-1024x768.jpg)
Surveying around a cottage for extension works. Yarlside in the background on a great for surveying day.
Setting Out in Lancaster
![Grey S8 Total Station on Yellow tripod inside a derelict building basement. Orange painted Metal pins are inserted in the ground to mark the position of foundation piles to be installed.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/setting-out-piles-lancaster-1024x768.jpg)
![Steel tube piles protruding from the ground within a foundation excavation.](https://d2rsurvey.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/piles-groundbeam-lancaster-1-1024x768.jpg)
Setting out piles and ground beams within a retained facade in Lancaster. Eventually, the new steel frame will tie back the facade securely.