The challenge; its 20m up in the air, access is impossible and our client wants it positioned in 3D to the mm! New Zealand Transport Agency came directly to BCL for a solution. Our team delivered.
Utilising our 1” Leica TS15 (the only one in New Zealand) our team took a series of high accuracy remote measurements to the hanging structure. This in turn allowed us to create a 3D digital model and extract various datasets to fulfil our client’s requirements.
A clever solution delivered on time and on budget.
Forget the yellow brick road, Auckland has a brand new yellow bridge. The bridge is open to pedestrians now so if you are at a loose end take a drive out to Clarks Lane and experience the bridge and get a sneak peek at the new section of the Upper Harbour Motorway. You may also notice some shiny new survey pegs as our team has been very busy surveying the new legal boundaries for legalisation purposes.
As well as mulling over the spelling of Whanganui the Surveyor General has been busy re-writing the Rules of Cadastral Surveying. In May 2010 these were issued. In order to comply with these rules we are required to produce a certified Cadastral Survey Dataset (CSD) for every pegging survey. This ensures that the pegs are not subject to challenge and that they are legal pegs.
Surveyors that do not lodge CSD information after placing pegs are committing a serious breach of the Surveyors Generals Rules and may be guilty of professional misconduct.
Our clients are supplied with a certified CSD upon completion of every pegging survey.
With horizontal shifts of up to 4m and vertical displacement of up to 1.5m the Christchurch Quake has certainly had the city (literally) on the move. One of our team, Brian Curtis, was in the area last week and took the dramatic photo above showing a 3m displacement! In this case the road boundary that was once straight will now have a dog-leg in it, the legal boundary will move with the ground movement. Our cadastral system is, thankfully, not a coordinate based cadastre and as with all surveys we look for evidence on the ground meaning old pegs, fences and survey marks near the site.
As the rebuild starts to kick in our team is gearing up to support engineers on the ground with the provision of high precision survey information.
If you need accurate survey information in Christchurch contact our team.
Never heard of GNSS, well you will need to get used to this new acronym as it is the new name for GPS. The American GPS is a part of the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System), the Russians have a system called Glonass. The Europeans are developing Galileo and the Japanese, Chinese and Indians are all developing GNSS.
Our Leica Viva system will be compatible with all of these systems meaning more accuracy and more productivity. So our ‘GPS’ surveys are now actually ‘GNSS’, utilising GPS and Glonass systems in a combined GNSS.
Great Barrier, Rakino and Waiheke Islands have all been visited by our teams over the last few months. We love working on the Islands! Whether it’s a fishing lodge on a rocky islet, a bach on Medlands or a bush hideaway we are your team.
During landscape design projects the position of the ‘legal’ boundary is often overlooked or assumed to be on existing fence lines. It is certainly not unusual to find a fence half a metre or more off the legal boundary! Call us to define your boundaries to ensure that your fabulous landscape design and features are located correctly. Why take the risk?
We also offer high-quality topographical surveys for your landscape designs. Call us for an estimate today.
Know your boundaries, call the experts call BCL FOR SURVEY on 09 630 9512. Landscape by Natural Habitats
