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Things we end up explaining often enough that it is worth writing them down.
14 July 2025
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02 May 2025
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19 March 2025
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27 January 2025
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08 November 2024
Surveying
Why your ALTA survey is late, and what to do about it
Nine times out of ten the delay is not fieldwork. It is the title commitment arriving without the underlying easement documents.
Stormwater decides your site plan. Design it first.
Basin location is not a detail to resolve after the buildings are placed. On most sites it is the strongest constraint you have.
Scan-to-BIM is now cheaper than being wrong once
The cost of laser scanning an existing building has fallen below the cost of a single significant field conflict.
What actually persuades a zoning board
Boards do not reject projects for being ugly. They reject projects that fail to answer the question a neighbour asked.
Where drone photogrammetry stops being good enough
Excellent for surfaces and volumes across large parcels. Not a substitute for a boundary survey, and never will be.