Land surveying is an essential component of engineering and construction. It is a core activity that enables construction planning and execution being done in compliance to client needs, available resources and architectural design.
Land surveying is an important phenomenon of any civil and mechanical engineering project. Typically land survey is conducted on projects encompassing roads, buildings, civil infrastructure, industrial infrastructure, transportation, dams and agriculture to name a few.
Land surveying leads to diligent planning and efficient execution of the construction project.
There are various methods and techniques for conducting Land survey. The newer methods are mostly influenced by the old school methods but tooling and machining has helped it out lately. Nonetheless the land survey field in Pakistan is typically seen as classified in these below described types:
Topographical Survey
This is the planning phase where land survey evaluates the existing properties of the available land such as available area, levelling profile, natural obstructions etc. Then based on the client requirement and the findings of such topographical survey the architect produce the project drawings for the construction stage.
Layout Survey
Based on the architectural drawings the land surveyor demarcates the area or maps the elements from the drawing on the actual ground itself. Based on which activities like excavations and structural work is conducted.
How it is done?
Land survey instruments Pakistan like GPS, total stations, electronic theodolite, dumpy level, automatic level etc. are mostly used to perform various tasks associated to land survey. Some of the leading brands of land surveying instruments are Sokkia, Topcon, Leica, Pentax and Nikon. These instruments are widely available in Pakistan along with abundance of skilled and trained surveyors that assist consultants and contractors for their land surveying jobs. If you are interested to learn about these construction equipment like total station price in Pakistan, you can check all products listed here Land Surveying Instruments.
