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Survey tripod on a quiet UK construction site at dusk

DRG. 03 — About

A Kettering practice with a site brain.

Founded in 2020. Directed by Ardu Claassens. Built on more than twenty years of engineering survey on live UK construction.

The practice

Small on purpose.

MATH Surveying Limited is an engineering surveying company registered in England and Wales (no. 12780907), based in Kettering, Northamptonshire. We work nationwide from Kettering — the A14 and M1 put most of the East Midlands within a short drive. The work is on your site; we do not run a public office.

The practice was founded in 2020 by Ardu Claassens. The point was not to become another national survey brand. It was to put an experienced engineering surveyor on the phone, then on the site — earthworks volumes and plant models, concrete and steel, and an as-built you can issue.

That is why contractors keep us on. Volumes a QS can defend. Setting out that understands a pour window and a steel delivery. Machine-control models that load without a fight. An as-built — and scan to BIM where the geometry is dense — on the same grid as the rest of the job.

The kit

What turns up on site.

Listed here so you know. The job is the earthworks, the structure and the issue — not a catalogue.

  • GNSS rover on a carbon fibre pole on a construction site

    GNSS

    Spectra SP100

  • Robotic total station on a UK construction site

    Setting out

    Trimble S7

  • Laser scanner capturing a live construction site

    Scan & monitoring

    Trimble SX10

  • RTK survey drone over a UK construction site

    UAV

    DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise RTK

  • Excavator with dual GNSS masts grading a formation

    Plant

    Machine-control models

Robotic total station on a UK construction site

How we work

Quality is a method, not a slogan.

  • Control first. Site grid, ground control and checkpoints before we trust a surface.
  • The right instrument. Aerial for coverage, GNSS and total station for setting out, scan for complex structure and movement. We will say if a method is the wrong one.
  • Legal to fly. UAV work under CAA Operational Approval UAS 13741, with RAMS that a principal contractor can file.
  • Stay on the job. Revisions, plant queries and a follow-up visit for continued service are included, not a surprise invoice.

Next step

Talk to the person who will attend.

Send a drawing or a postcode. We quote the same day wherever we can.