Volume Surveys

The ability to accurately tender for a groundworks/earthworks project or price for material to be hauled off site.

The cost of a single lorry load of soil or crushed concrete is high, incorrect volumes can have enormous cost implications. Technology helps eliminate this error by measuring to a tight tolerance crush concrete (post demolition) or earth volumes using a Totalstation and onboard pinpoint reflector-less technology. The adoption of 3D laser scanning and more recently UAV’s (drone) enables surfaces to be scanned more densely, remotely reducing the risks of traversing the surface of a stockpile by foot.

Results can be visualised as a 3D wireframe with values correct to under a cubic meter.

Although the output of the survey can be in 2D or 3D , depending on requirements, all data collected on site is in 3D, allowing Digital Terrain models to be created for analyses, eg, sections.