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The importance of land surveying for geotech engineers
We provide reliable, Ordnance Survey coordinated location data for CBR tests, boreholes, trial pits and more. Our land surveyors support these investigations, enabling professionals to make safe, sound and cost-effective geotechnical engineering decisions.
Our ground investigation survey services produce measured spatial or level data that can be crucial for your project. With our highly accurate data, you can be confident that you are always working in exactly the right places.
Supporting high-precision geotechnical engineering services
You can ensure accurate coordinates for all investigation points through our high-precision setting out and position recording for ground investigations. This allows you to create reliable geotechnical models and dependable reference points for future construction or monitoring stages.
Our movement monitoring surveys offer key benchmarks for assessing soil and the impact of construction. We can record changes to position and level to the mm, so geotechnical engineers can identify potential hazards like steep slopes or unstable terrain and minimise risks to workers and equipment.
Why choose Cheshire Surveys
We provide a range of surveys and related services across the North West, Cheshire, North Staffordshire and North Wales.
Passion & technical expertise
25+ years experience
Quality services tailored to your project
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What surveys could you need?
As-Built Surveys
A fully up-to-date record of what has just been constructed, ensuring it matches the proposed plans. Useful for producing further plans that require an accurate site layout.
Movement Monitoring Surveys
Tracking and recording movement or alterations, such as crack monitoring and land movements, in either a built structure or a landform.
GPS Surveys
Ideal for covering large open spaces, like fields, or where access may be restricted or challenging.
Setting Out
Geocordinated setting out services for building groundworks and steelworks for new housing, commercial and industrial sites.
Why might you need a survey?
Our experienced surveyors use advanced surveying techniques to mark out proposed investigation or monitoring points accurately. This helps to reduce delays and errors for positioning points, so your time on site can be more cost-effective and efficient.
We can record all ground investigation positions to ordnance survey coordinates so they can be referred to throughout the project once installed. This provides an accurate and reliable record of where investigations have taken place. Our precise surveying enables positions to be located or re-marked later on.
Our ground monitoring is achieved using a total station and highly accurate permanent ground markers (PGMs). They provide a permanent reference location for ongoing monitoring of a specific location. They are installed much deeper in the ground than a standard survey control and can be used for long periods.
They allow for repeatability of results as the northings, easting and height can be recorded each time at the agreed intervals (e.g. weekly, monthly, bimonthly, annually). You can compare the results from each interval and they will show changes down to the millimetre.
We install permanent markers on a building or structure for structural health monitoring. We then take measurements at regular intervals using a consistent methodology. The type of marker used depends on what needs to be monitored. For example, we use specialist monitors to measure changes in cracks in walls or nails, while targets can be used to monitor level changes.
Geotechnical engineering support projects
Project examples and costs
Trial pits for a redevelopment
We visited the site of an urban redevelopment project that needed to dig multiple trial pits. This would enable them to expose the site’s old cabling and also inform the installation of new cabling. Our surveyors used our GPS surveying equipment to record the position of the 10 trial pits to OS coordinates.
Estimated cost: £650.00 + VAT
Slope Monitoring
Our annual monitoring survey of landraise (waste site) slopes informs the geotechnical engineer’s slope stability assessment. This enables them to assess whether any soil movement on the surface and cracks in the slope indicate slope failure.
Estimated cost: £4000.00 + VAT per annum
Level survey following remediation
Over 5 years we completed monthly monitoring of permanent ground markers at a remediated coal site. The site was planned for redevelopment and our monitoring would inform the land stability assessment.
Estimated cost: £750.00 + VAT per visit
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How land surveys benefit geotechnical engineers
Land surveyors’ ground investigation services are a cost effective option for geotechnical engineers to obtain accurate spatial data. With detailed topographical maps of a site showing levels, slopes and features, engineers can plan investigation points precisely and safely.
Choosing professional monitoring solutions provide geotechnical engineers with robust measured data. This allows you to make informed recommendations about the next project stages.
Our land surveyors will work with you to understand what you need. We’ll provide solutions that add to your overall service to your client, both in terms of time and budget.
How we work
Step 01
Request a quote
We’ll need your project’s address and a site plan. We’ll then get in touch for a consultation to confirm site details and understand exactly what your project needs.
Step 02
Quote accepted
Once your project is confirmed with us, we’ll arrange a convenient date for your survey.
Step 03
We complete your survey
We’ll visit your project site to carry out the survey. We can meet you on site if needed. We will then process the survey data and create a survey drawing.
Step 04
Receive your survey
We’ll share the survey data with you, usually within a few days. We use industry standard file types and can issue all the drawings in multiple formats.
