Pricing of surveys is carried out by a director who will assess how long it will take to survey the site to the specification provided using a combination of experience, size of the survey area and by viewing the site either directly or on aerial/other photographs. This figure is then multiplied by our daily rate for a survey team and a travel adjustment added if necessary plus the cost of any extra-ordinary items required such as lighting, traffic management etc. to give a total price. We normally quote on a fixed price basis (exclusive of VAT) unless a daily or hourly rate is specifically requested.

Call 01473 211 222 or email admin@edisurveys.co.uk or fill out the form below

Either send us your own specification if you have one or we can make suggestions based on our experience.

So long as you can give us a plan or description of the area or building to be surveyed and the reason for the survey e.g. building plot, building conversion to apartments then we can produce a specification for you. We can also supply standard specifications for topographic, utility and measured building surveys with check boxes which you can complete and return to us.

The Survey Association also provide Guidance Notes for download on their site. If in doubt please telephone and we will be happy to talk through the options with you.

If you are sending us your own specification then please remember to double check everything is included that you need – whilst we will always try and survey items we think may be needed but not specified there will not always be time to do so and revisiting a site to add a few items is far more expensive than including them originally. You should also be careful not to over specify if cost is a significant constraint – for example a 5m spaced level grid over a 1ha site requires 400 survey points whereas a 10m grid requires 100 points.

Your contact details including a phone number and email address

Address of survey location including a postcode

Type of survey needed (e.g. Topographical)

Approximate size of survey area or marked up plan

Level of detail required

Provide additional information you feel may necessary for example old maps, photos and details of any unusual features.

On receipt of an initial enquiry, contact details are logged and a quotation number assigned by the office administrator and these, together with any paperwork provided, are passed to one of the directors. The director then assesses the specification and plan provided and if necessary contacts the enquirer. On large or difficult projects a site visit for quotation may also be necessary.

A detailed quotation setting out price and expected time scale is then sent out, often the same day.
Should the quotation be successful, a job file is produced containing copies of all relevant paperwork and a job summary sheet produced by the relevant director. A project manager is assigned who assesses the resources needed.

A director conducts an office based H&S risk assessment for the site and an environmental risk assessment.

The office administrator liaises with the client to agree a commencement date.

The job is assigned to a surveyor with the appropriate experience and on the appointed day(s) the survey team will carry out the survey work requested.
On return to the office data is downloaded on to a dedicated work station and the survey produced in AutoCAD.

The survey is checked for compliance with your original specifications and our own surveying and drafting standards by a senior surveyor not otherwise involved with the project. Any mistakes or inconsistencies are corrected and the drawing is issued to the client in the requested format(s) with a signed dispatch note.
The surveyor archives all digital data and fills out a QC sheet confirming that the specification has been met and that all necessary data has been issued and archived.

The office manager checks that all necessary QC information to comply with our ISO9001 accreditation is in the file and if so places it in archive. Invoicing details are passed to the accounts manager.

GNSS – Global Navigation Satellite System is a network of satellites system run by the U.S. government (GPS), the Russian government (GLONASS), the Chinese government (BeiDou) and the European Union (Galileo) which constantly send out the time and their position, the difference in time when the signal is received multiplied by the speed of light gives the distance between the satellite and the receiver and the distance from 4 satellites enables a 3D position of the receiver to be calculated.

Due to differences in atmospheric composition, errors in satellite position and clock errors the best accuracy achievable using this method alone is only 2-5m.

Most clients require much greater positional accuracy and this is achieved using the Ordnance Survey OSNet network of 110 continuously operating GNSS receivers to provide corrections using either RINEX data or the SmartNet service provided by Leica Geosystems for “real time” corrections.

GNSS is an excellent tool for the provision of survey control to Ordnance Survey National grid and height datum; GNSS heights on sites where the Environment Agency requires a flood risk assessment are now mandatory.

Underground services are detected by two main methods:

1. EML (electro-magnetic location) equipment which picks up electromagnetic or radio waves which are naturally concentrated and conducted by metallic pipes and cables.

2. GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) which sends a radar signal into the ground and measures the time and strength of returned signals to pick up changes in ground structure – e.g. the signal moves more quickly through the air in a pipe than through the adjacent wet soil.
 
Both detection methods will be used in a grid pattern at a density suited to the number of utilities expected to be present and the location of any utilities found marked on site and recorded to add to a survey drawing. Additional information will be obtained from inspection covers, marker posts and trench scars.

It is important to realise that these tools are useful aids to locating services but it is not possible to locate all services without digging. We estimate from experience that it is usually possible to locate a minimum of 95% of the services on a rural site, 85% of services on an urban site and 75% of services under a crowded city footpath.

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