Property Survey Division of
Phase Projects Ltd

Measured surveys for developers, designers and architects

Your survey is the foundation of your design. Building, topographical and utility surveys for design teams across Scotland.

Add virtual tours, planning visuals and surveyed camera views, built from the same survey.

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  • Team surveying since 1989
  • Specification agreed up front
  • Working across Scotland
What we survey

Existing-condition information, ready to design on.

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Planning a property or construction project?

Measured building surveys, topographical surveys, underground utility surveys, point clouds, 3D models and 2D drawings, drone surveys, and tours and visualisation, across Scotland and further by arrangement. Tell us what you need and we'll quote.

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Planning an offshore, industrial or infrastructure project?

Phase Surveys does property and construction surveys for design teams. Phase Projects handles high-consequence industrial and offshore projects.

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View 04Peterhead Prison Museum, hybrid virtual tour
Add-on to any survey · Visualisation

See it as it is, and as it will be

Walk the building or site as it stands without a visit, or see the proposed design in its real setting before it is built. Both are built on the survey data.

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As it isVirtual tours and 3D scenes

Free-roam 3D tours: request a quote

A lifelike 3D scene you can move through freely, in any direction. Built as a Gaussian splat, captured with PortalCam, and by drone where the site suits it.

As it will beSurveyed camera views, planning visuals and CGI

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Photographs from surveyed camera positions, with the proposed building placed using those surveyed positions. The kind planners ask for on bigger schemes.

Tour 01Rubislaw Church, Aberdeen. Matterport.
Tour 02Blairs College and St Mary's Chapel. Matterport.
Tour 03Garioch Heritage Centre. Matterport.
A proposed shopfront on Union Street, Aberdeen, placed into a photograph of the granite building
Visual 01Proposed shopfront, Union Street, Aberdeen. The new frontage placed into the photograph.

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Projects

Examples of our work

Coloured laser scan point cloud of a historic Gothic church in Edinburgh, with its tower and pinnacles, scanned inside and outside
Historic Edinburgh church, 2026. Scanned inside and outside to the agreed specification, with an HDS scanner on survey control.
Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen, 2023. SLAM scan of the grounds for a new pathway, 30 minutes on site.
Macduff Cross, 2022. Laser scanned to survey control.
A coloured point cloud from a drone survey of Tarland Trails: a forest track with a yard of sheds and vehicles beside it
Tarland Trails, 2025. Drone point cloud of the track and yard.

On site

A DJI drone on its landing pad in a field, ready to fly
Drone survey, pre-flight checks
A laser scanner on a tripod in an empty office floor
Laser scanner set up indoors
A GeoSLAM handheld scanner standing on the ground beside the Phase Surveys van
SLAM scanner, one system, out of the van
A total station in a field with deer grazing behind it
Topographical survey, with company
A GNSS survey pole with a controller, in a Highland glen
GNSS rover on a topo
Topo timelapse, tiny-planet view
Plain answers

Why survey quotes differ, and how to choose.

Two quotes for the same building can differ a lot, and a cheaper one is sometimes the right call. The difference usually comes down to four things, and we can guide you on which ones matter for your project.

01

Accuracy

A survey to a local accuracy of 10–30 mm is quicker than one to 3–5 mm. Both are valid. Budget will often decide it, and for a simple building that can be the right call. For a historic church façade the difference is real, so bear that in mind before choosing on price.

Just as important is control: a properly controlled survey ties the whole site into one framework, from the building to the topography and the buried services, so small errors don’t build up from one side of the site to the other. Without control, a survey can still come out fine. The trouble is that nothing shows whether it has: each part can look right on its own and still drift across the site, with walls that don’t meet, levels that don’t tie in, or a drain that’s off line by the time it reaches the road. If it has drifted, you usually find out when the design is set out on site. We can help you make that call.

02

Measured or assumed

Not everything on a drawing is always measured. Wall thicknesses, rooms without access and roof detail are sometimes assumed, and walls can be drawn square when they aren’t. On a drawing, assumed detail looks exactly like measured detail, until someone opens up a wall. Our survey statement tells you which is which.

03

Checking

Closing the loop back to the first station is how errors get found. Skip it and nothing on the drawing tells you something is wrong. It shows up on site, when it’s expensive. We close the loop and check the figures as standard.

04

Who is on site

A trained field surveyor carries out every survey, with a senior surveyor behind each job. With today’s mobile scanning, the data is checked before we leave site, and the office can review it remotely while we’re still there, so gaps can be picked up on the day rather than needing a return visit. Our surveyors also see the things a design will trip over: a drain that doesn’t line up, a wall that isn’t square.

  • Controlled: the whole site in one framework. Closing the loop shows how well it fits.
  • Without control: it may be close, but the error can grow across the site, and nothing on the drawing shows how far it’s out.
Illustration of the risk, not to scale. The bend is exaggerated so you can see it.

Local or global? An accuracy figure on its own doesn’t tell you much. Local accuracy is how well nearby points agree, for example within a room. Global accuracy is how well everything agrees across the whole site. A survey quoted at 10 mm room by room might hold across the site, or might not, and without control nothing shows which. If a quote gives a single figure, ask whether it’s local or global, and how it was checked.

A quicker survey is usually fine for

  • Early feasibility and massing studies
  • Estimating floor areas for a sales brochure
  • Internal layouts where nothing structural changes
  • Sites where the design has plenty of room to move

Pay for accuracy when

  • You are building on or close to a boundary
  • Levels drive drainage, access or flood design
  • New work has to fit existing structure or services
  • Fabrication or prefabricated parts depend on the dimensions

Your survey is the foundation of your design. Everything that follows, from planning drawings to setting out on site, is built on it. So compare what each quote includes, not just the price: the specification, the control, and what is measured rather than assumed. If a cheaper survey is right for your project, we’ll say so.

If a quicker survey suits your project, we’ll tell you. Already have a survey? You don’t want to find out it wasn’t good enough once the design is built on it. If you’re not sure, send it over and we’ll give you a straight view. If it’s fine, we’ll tell you.

Send us your survey or email info@phasesurveys.com More detail: scale guide, what to ask for, and an example plan
Survey statement

Know what your survey covers

Each survey comes with a short statement setting out the specification it was carried out to, the method used, its intended use and its limitations.

  • The specification it was carried out to
  • The method used
  • Its intended use
  • Its limitations

Every survey has limits. One that doesn’t state them isn’t more accurate. It just hasn’t told you where they are. Ours are written down.

Surveys are checked before they leave us, and the statement records who checked it.

Survey Statement

What every statement covers. Each entry is filled in for the job.
Specification
Method
Intended use
Limitations
Checked by and date

Our team has been surveying since1989

Who's behind it

From measured buildings and development sites on this website, to offshore platforms and process plant as Phase Projects. The same survey team and the same control standards, whatever the size of the job.

Kit listOur kit, then and now 1989 Today See our kit, then and now

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View 07OS trig pillar, the mountains of Scotland behind it. Our ground, across Scotland.
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