Surveyor Blog
Land Surveying in Dowbiggin, Sedbergh
Garden surveyed for barn renovations works, Dowbiggin, Sedbergh. View of Aye Gill Pike in the background.
Scan to BIM, Lancaster
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 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
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
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
Surveying around a cottage for extension works. Yarlside in the background on a great for surveying day.
Setting Out in Lancaster
Setting out piles and ground beams within a retained facade in Lancaster. Eventually, the new steel frame will tie back the facade securely.
Land Surveying near Heysham
Sunderland Point on a fine day, measuring a plot for small development works and to prepare an accurate Land Registry title plan.
Land Surveying, North of Nelson
Land surveying, a green field in Kelbrook for a proposed housing development. Local resistance is already mounting.
Structural Monitoring, Millom
Fixing monitoring prisms to a church gable for a long term study in Millom. I’ll first measure the prisms several times to establish the baseline position. Periodically I’ll return to the site and remeasure, reporting the deviation results to the structural engineers.
