Residential Surveys
Residential surveys are typically performed for the owner of a property, or someone looking to purchase a property. Often the reason for this type of survey is to make improvements, additions, or renovations to the property. Here are some of the services we can provide:
•A site plan for building permit and development permit applications
•Identify and stake property boundaries for fence installations, wall construction and landscaping
•Provide layouts for excavation and construction
•BC Land Surveyor Certificates for mortgage and/or building inspection purposes
Construction Surveys
Construction surveys relate to building and infrastructure development and can be required throughout a project’s life cycle from design to completion. Some of the services and products that we can provide are:
•Site plans for design (topographical survey)
•Excavation, foundation, and grid line layout
•Benchmarks for elevation
•Engineering layouts and as-built drawings for civil engineers
•BC Land Surveyor’s certificates for building inspection purposes
Cadastral Surveys
Cadastral surveys involve legal boundaries and as BC Land Surveyors we are qualified to make measurements to determine the location of existing boundaries and to set new boundaries. Cadastral surveys usually result in a legal plan that gets registered with the Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia.
Examples of these include the following: subdivision and/or consolidation of properties; strata subdivisions—bare land and building; rights of way, easements and covenants; road dedication for municipalities or the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure; re-establishing property corners and filing a posting plan with the Land Title Office; measuring air space parcels and volumetric easements and rights of way; registering building leases for commercial and industrial buildings, foreshore leases (water lots for docks, establishing natural boundaries etc.), accretions and natural boundary adjustments.
Topographical Surveys
Topographical surveys identify features on the ground and may also include information about ones overhead or underground. A topographic survey results in a map or plan that can illustrate ground elevations in the form of contour lines, the positions of buildings, fences, streets, sidewalks, driveways, utilities, retaining walls, trees, landscaping, and more. Topographical surveys can be prepared for a variety of purposes: subdivision design, civil engineering design for roads, utilities, or drainage, architectural design, permit applications, construction planning, volume calculations.
Geodetic Surveys
Geodetic surveys establish the precise horizontal and vertical location of control points and other features relative to a global, regional or local reference system. Geodetic surveys are required for the following purposes:
•Control for photogrammetric mapping
•Survey control networks
•Monitoring of earth or structure movement (deformation surveys)
Environmental Surveys
Environmental surveys are conducted for the use of qualified environmental professionals (RPBio, RBTech, etc.). We can provide precise positional information for the following:
•Riparian area mapping
•Monitoring wells
Surveys of Canada Lands
Professionals holding a Canada Land Surveyor commission have the exclusive right to conduct legal surveys on Canada Lands. Canada Lands include Federal Parks and First Nations reserves. Runnalls Denby Land Surveying are excited to offer this service starting in 2023.