SURVEYING FOR BUILDERS

Peter Southwell
Probuild Constructions (Aust) Pty Ltd
Wednesday 28 July 2004
 overview
 Introduction & terminology

 Why surveying is required

 Overview of types of survey

 Outputs from surveys
 Construction surveying methods
 Summary
 key issues

 Why surveys are required

 What type of surveys are undertaken

 How surveys are carried out

 introduction: terms

 Note key differences between:

 Land surveying
 Strata title and lettable area surveys
 Feature surveys
 Setting out and construction surveying
 introduction: why survey?
 COMPLIANCE WITH DESIGN
 LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES
 CONTRACTUAL REQUIREMENTS
 STRUCTURAL ACCURACY
 PLANT & EQUIPMENT LOCATOINS
 SAFETY
 INTERFACE WITH EXISTING FEATURES
 RECORDING OF EXISTING CONDITIONS
 MAINTENANCE AND ACCESS RECORDS
 compliance with design
 Siting of the building
 Footings
 Aesthetics
 Town Planning
 Functionality (especially re levels)
 Integration of specialist equipment
 Tolerances
 legal responsibilities
 Site / building ownership & titles
 Council requirements, Planning & Building Approvals
 Easements and covenants
 Height restrictions
 Set backs
 Boundaries & encroachments
 contractual requirements

 Certify that building is within boundaries

 Building tolerances: Australian Standards

 Leases & tenancy area surveys

 Property Council of Australia Nett Lettable Areas

 Owner’s reliance on built area for income

 Strata title and Agreement to Lease requirements

 structural accuracy

 Structure is designed to support loads

 Eccentricity of loadings
 Building stability & deflection
 Shop drawings & details
 plant & equipment locations
 Temporary plant:
 Crane capacities & footing locations
 Hoists
 Gantries, scaffold & temporary accesses

 Permanent equipment
 Lifts, escalators, switchboards, substations, print

presses, etc
 safety
 In ground services:
 Electricity, water, sewer, stormwater

 Foundation design, footings and support

 Bridges, culverts, roads & civil engineering structures

 interface with existing features

 Refurbishments

 Extensions to existing buildings

 Existing structural grids & structural capacity

 record of existing conditions

 As built drawings

 Historical records, heritage requirements

 Check for damage (“Dilapidation Survey”)

 Monitor movements of historic structures

 maintenance and access

 As built surveys

 Locating in ground services

 Repairs & maintenance

 outputs from surveys
 Title Survey
 Site Plan
 Setout Plans
 Grid Establishment Plan
 Detailed Plans, Sections, Elevations
 “As Built” Surveys
 survey methods #1
1. Establishment survey

 Transferring levels and lines onto site

 TBM’s

 Grids

 Set out points

 Marks and points outside the site
 survey methods #2
2. Equipment

 Dumpy Level, Theodolite, Laser, EDM

 Licensed Surveyor for key establishment and
regular checks
 Builder’s tradesmen transferring and setting
out
 survey methods #3
3. Progressive survey
Transferring levels and grids up the structure
 Excavation and footing set out

 Each concrete pour

 Slabedges
 Beam locations

 Columns & walls

 Wall & finishes set out

 survey methods #4
4. Special surveys

 Set out complex building elements and shapes

 Site measurement for prefabricated elements
(steelwork, precast, glass, joinery, etc)
 survey methods #5
5. As built survey

 Check building against external TBM’s and grids

 Check external wall locations against title
boundary
 Check protrusions (eg balconies, awnings)
 summary
 Complying with designers’ intent
 Correctly locating structures & elements
 Recording existing conditions
 Satisfying legal, contractual and title issues
 Critical interface between design and construction
SURVEYING FOR
CONSTRUCTION
PROFESSIONALS
Peter Southwell
Probuild Constructions (Aust) Pty Ltd
BBldg (Melb)