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We can adjust our crew schedules to be available on short notice, often on the same day and within hours of a phone call. Our surveying team has built an excellent reputation due to our ability to respond quickly to various surveying projects with complex, time-sensitive, and accurate deliverables.
We have established our best practices through years of survey experience. Our team is trained to work around time and budget constraints, minimize costs, and mitigate potential challenges without compromising quality.
Our top priority is ensuring your project needs and wants are consistently met. Our surveying team is one of the largest in the region and is backed by the latest in survey technology—making us the perfect fit for any job, regardless of size, location, or terrain.
We can locate property boundaries and monuments so you know where your property lines lie. With many years of experience across our licensed survey team, we analyze the complexity of property boundaries and utilize solutions to effectively resolve and locate property lines. We aim to understand the whole picture with a thorough review of all available data—from recorded surveys and plats to reviewing all deed information.
A topographic survey will give you a three-dimensional map of any natural features or artificial structures on a piece of land before you start your construction project. Establishing a base map for your project often begins with understanding the existing topography, utilities, property boundaries, and significant features. We utilize several technologies to prepare your survey with the most appropriate and efficient tools, including GPS, total stations, aerial drone surveys, and 3D scanning.
Floodplain insurance and regulations are complicated, but our team has the expertise to help everyone, from individuals to large residential developers, understand the options for a specific property.
Our certified floodplain managers regularly assist clients in navigating the requirements of FEMA and local floodplain permitting and provide advice on strategies to obtain preferred insurance rates.
After explaining potential risks to a client, we are adept at preparing a Letter of Map Revisions (LOMR) and Letter of Map Amendments (LOMA) to remove a structure, property, or portion of a property from a Special Flood Hazards Area. We routinely work with commercial property owners, property management companies, realtors, residential developers, new home buyers, and people selling property.
Construction staking ensures that your project is built according to plan by accurately mapping your plans out on the construction site. This process can also identify problems early on before construction starts.
Our field and office surveyors thoroughly review title information and all available record data and understand all the pieces that go into an ALTA survey. Our team reviews lender requirements and works with you, your title company, and your legal team to determine the most efficient map to meet your needs.
Our surveyors have a long history of performing cadastral surveys at different complexities. Often, this isn’t just about resolved boundaries but other title, deed, and occupation elements. We can support boundary needs and work with clients on solutions to individual projects.
Establishing accurate control baselines for both horizontal and vertical needs is very important. There are many ways systematic and random errors can build up into poor data. Our licensed surveyors and field staff utilize many techniques to establish precise control for all project needs.
Between two neighbors deciding to modify their common line or strategically trying to move some existing property lines, our expansive experience in property line adjustments sets AKS apart. Our surveyors understand the land use elements and how to properly define the property boundaries, setting the new boundary and recording the final survey and deeds.
Our surveyors understand the importance of completing your development project on time and within budget. We have built a reputation with our local jurisdictions for producing high-quality maps with minimal review times, often recorded before project completion.
Establishing public right-of-way lines is a critical part of surveying. Understanding the divide between public boundaries and private defines limits of where the public manages and maintains improvements from the private landowner. Our licensed surveyors establish strong control networks and research to establish existing and new right-of-way lines.
Our surveyors prepare easements for many purposes, often for access and utilities of some nature. We review the desired needs, communicate with clients to determine whether these are for the proposed or existing improvements, and find the best way to establish the document. Our surveyors also map the existing easements and work with clients to determine if these are still applicable or serve the original purpose.
Our surveyors know how to create detailed reports of a property’s legal boundaries and prepare accurate maps describing the exact location of the boundaries.
GPS surveying and geodetic control allow our surveyors to accurately determine the three-dimensional positions of points on the earth’s surface by measuring and recording the distances between established markers and the points of interest using satellites and receivers.
Our surveyors use GIS mapping to combine geographic data with other types of information to create accurate representations of a surveyed area.
An as-built survey can help you ensure that a project was built to your plan’s specifications and document any changes that occurred during construction
We can accurately measure and map existing underground utility lines, such as water, sewer, electrical, and communications systems. Once these utilities are located, record and map the exact location for your records.
Our surveyors can take the needed measurements of existing boundary lines, assess the data, and create a new boundary line and provide the necessary documentation to reflect the new boundary adjustment.
