SERVICES

Setting Out for Construction

Absolute accuracy when setting out buildings or infrastructure is crucial. Our experienced and dedicated site engineers ensure that all setting out is implemented with precision and efficiency, using a combination of Leica robotic total stations and GPS equipment.

Ensuring we have the most up-to-date version of a site plan and that the building coordinates are calculated correctly and uploaded onto our Leica Total Stations – rather than calculated by hand – helps safeguard against human error and guarantees accuracy. The proposed site layout is based on the same grid as the original topographical survey. From this we can extract coordinates for the building corners. Using an electronic theodolite referenced to existing site control, we can then peg out the required corners.

Key Benefits

Precision accuracy in setting out
Our meticulous record keeping gives us an accurate historical picture of how a site was developed
All total stations are calibrated annually by an external agency. Tribrachs and levels are subject to rigorous tests on a regular basis
Drawings are checked and overlaid on top of the topographic survey to ensure that any discrepancies are easily detected prior to a site visit
Using the total station with uploaded coordinates, our land surveyors can easily set up a network of control stations and reference objects, to set out the points required on site
Once work has been completed, our surveyors will check that the position of the building is in line with the design and layout of the plans
To ensure accuracy, coordinated points of the building are checked by tape measure at random intervals, to ensure that the size and shape of the building is correct

Powers team on a construction site doing setting out, using a total station

Deliverables

Setting out for individual building plots for residential clients leading to more complex multiple plots for house builders
Setting out for large scale apartment blocks, commercial property, hotels and office buildings
Setting out for roads and highway infrastructure
Setting out for sewer lines
Setting out for drainage schemes
Setting out for complex steel frameworks and checked for precision building

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As the contracts Manager for MC Construction, I’m responsible for overseeing several sites and schemes at once, and I am also involved in the design development. For MC Construction to be able to help Royal Mail develop this existing site, we needed a lot of vital underground information on the location. Powers were able to provide us with an underground utility survey, that was clear and accurate, enabling us to be able to place the Hydrobrake in the most efficient position and excavate the car park, without putting our team and others in danger.