Drone surveys Using UAV/Drone technology has now become a day-to-day surveying method for Survey Operations. From providing video presentation, in particular, for our Estate Agent clients to help sales of larger properties, to surveying inaccessible buildings, to large landfill sites for [...]

Surveying a Reservoir When the amendments to the Reservoir Act 1975 came into play, many owners and operators of past exempt reservoirs awaited the outcome. Previously, dammed or bunded reservoirs of less than 25,000 cubic metres of capacity are exempt [...]

Being one of the UK's leading coastal surveying companies and a major user of both 3D laser scanning and high-precision GPS, it seemed logical to combine the methodologies and instrumentation of all three into a single unified approach. Primarily developed to monitor and [...]

Highway surveying issues Based on our experiences combining survey methods to suit a particular client's need. We have recently turned our attention to remotely surveying highway sections to the highest possible accuracy. Whilst several high-speed, dynamically positioned approaches have [...]

Church Surveys There are approximately 28,000 churches in England alone, of which 14,000 are listed buildings. 45% of all Grade 1 listed buildings are churches. So it is unsurprising that a large proportion of our building survey workload [...]

Slipform Engineering Slipforming poses several problems for engineering surveyors vertical displacements and axis rotations will always occur despite close tolerance control systems. In recent years, Survey Operations have been developing systems to minimise construction errors and quantify post-construction [...]

Coastal monitoring via Hovercraft Surveys Survey Operations are probably the only survey company in the UK to own commercial Hovercraft, and they are certainly the only one to operate this unique design specially built by the company that makes Hovercraft [...]

GPR utility surveys Ground Penetrating Radar, or GPR, has been used by utility tracing surveyors for years. However, it is still relatively misunderstood by many potential clients. Ground Penetrating Radar uses Primarily, GPR is used to locate non-metallic or non-conductive services such [...]

Sewers and Culverts Surveying within culverts and deep tunnels is becoming a lost art; accordingly, our specialist confined spaces teams have never been busier. Our contracts within the water industry predominantly involve the precise traversing, detailing and alignment of deep [...]