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 a UK Civil Aviation Authority operational authorisation (PDRA01-22922). 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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