Question 1

Do you only do earthworks?

Accepted Answer

No. Earthworks volumes and plant models sit alongside setting out and as-built for concrete and steel — pours, pile caps, holding-down, grid, and scan to BIM of the frame. Concrete and steel keep a programme when the muck cannot.

Question 2

How do you measure earthworks volumes?

Accepted Answer

We survey the site as it stands, compare it to design or to the last visit, and issue a report with the method written down. Aerial capture covers the ground; GNSS or scan fill in where the tolerance needs it. The number is one a QS can defend.

Question 3

What files do you issue?

Accepted Answer

DWG / DXF, LandXML, LAS / LAZ point clouds, GeoTIFF orthomosaics, CSV coordinates and PDF reports. Machine-control packages for Trimble, Leica and Topcon. Scan-to-BIM models in Revit or IFC where specified. You also get a secure online workspace: 2D and 3D in the browser, with distance, area and volume tools, limited to your job. No extra software to install. If your engineer wants something else, ask — we would rather issue it once.

Question 4

How quickly can you get to site?

Accepted Answer

We are based in Kettering, Northamptonshire, on the A14 / M1 corridor. East Midlands sites are often the next working day. Further afield is planned, not refused. Quotes are turned around the same day wherever the brief is clear.

Question 5

Do we need to stop the site?

Accepted Answer

Usually not. We work around plant, agree a survey window, and keep out of the critical path. If we need a short exclusion for a take-off or a scan, we say so in the method.

Question 6

Are you CAA approved?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Where we fly, UAV operations are under UK Civil Aviation Authority Operational Approval UAS 13741. We issue RAMS and fly to the site rules, not around them.

Question 7

What do you need for a quote?

Accepted Answer

A site location, a rough area, the job (earthworks, setting out, machine-control model, as-built, scan to BIM or monitoring) and a drawing if you have one. A phone call is enough to start.

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