Property Survey Division of
Phase Projects Ltd

Our team has been surveying since1989

About

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.

“I’ve been surveying since 1989.” Chris Reid, Managing Director

An OS trig pillar on open moorland with the mountains of Scotland behind
View 07OS trig pillar, the mountains of Scotland behind it. Our ground, across Scotland.

From 1989, when computers, instruments and plotters looked like this, and site calls were made from the car.

  1. Office
    1. Line drawing of a late-1980s 386 desktop PC with a CRT monitor showing a DOS prompt01386 PC
    2. Line drawing of an HP desktop pen plotter with its carousel of pens02HP pen plotter with pen carousel
  2. Comms
    1. Line drawing of a brick-sized car phone handset with a coiled cord to its transceiver03Car phone
    2. Line drawing of a desk telephone with a curly cord, and a drawing tube with a postage label04No internet: the phone on the desk, drawings in the post
  3. Deliverables
    1. Line drawing of a roll of plotted plans, one sheet partly unrolled05Paper plans
    2. Line drawing of a 3.5 inch floppy disk labelled .DWG062D .dwg files on a floppy disk
  4. Site
    1. Line drawing of a Geodimeter 410 total station on a tripod, sighting a circular prism on a pole07Geodimeter 410 total station and circular prism on a pole: a two-person job
    2. Line drawing of a cable avoidance tool with a needle meter, and its signal generator box08CAT and Genny
    3. Line drawing of a clipboard with a hand-sketched floor plan and a pencil09Paper sketchpad
    4. Line drawing of a manhole cover levered up with a lifting key, a second key on the ground10Manhole keys, and a cover lifted by hand
    5. Line drawing of a 35 mm film SLR camera with a roll of film beside it1135 mm film camera, 36 shots a roll
  5. Transport
    1. Line drawing of a white Volvo 340 hatchback, side view12Volvo 340, white (c/w rusty, no air-con)

To today.

  1. Survey control
    1. Line drawing of a robotic total station on a tripod, tracking a 360 degree prism pole with a controller on it01Robotic total station: one person
    2. Line drawing of a GNSS RTK rover: antenna on a pole with a controller clamped to it, satellites overhead02GNSS RTK rover
  2. Scanners
    1. Line drawing of a high-precision laser scanner on a tripod, scanning03High-precision laser scanner
    2. Line drawing of a handheld SLAM scanner cabled to its data logger04SLAM scanner, using since 2023: around five times faster, less detail
  3. Virtual tours
    1. Line drawing of a 3D capture camera on a tripod053D tour camera
    2. Line drawing of a handheld spatial camera06Handheld spatial camera
    3. Line drawing of a DSLR camera on a panoramic head on a tripod07DSLR on a panoramic head
  4. Drones
    1. Line drawing of a survey-grade quadcopter with an RTK antenna dome and landing gear08Survey-grade RTK drone
    2. Line drawing of a folding drone carrying a lidar pod, scanning the ground09Lidar drone
    3. Line drawing of a small folding drone with a single camera10Mini drone
  5. Underground
    1. Line drawing of a four-wheeled ground penetrating radar cart with a screen on its handle, over a buried pipe11Ground penetrating radar cart
    2. Line drawing of an electromagnetic cable locator over the ground with its signal generator beside12Cable locator and its transmitter
    3. Line drawing of a coiled drain rod on a reel, fed into a gully with a sonde on its tip13Rod reel with a sonde
    4. Line drawing of a manhole cover levered up with a lifting key, a second key on the ground14Manhole keys: still lifted by hand
  6. Office
    1. Line drawing of a workstation with two monitors showing a point cloud and a 3D model15Point cloud processing workstations
    2. Line drawing of a laptop showing a globe, with a processor chip beside it16Processing and CAD software
  7. Deliverables
    1. Line drawing of a house gable made only of measured points17Point clouds
    2. Line drawing of a house gable as a triangulated mesh model with camera positions around it18Textured 3D model
    3. Line drawing of a 2D plan on a drawing sheet labelled .DWG beside the same building as a 3D model labelled .RVT192D and 3D in the formats you work in: .dwg, .rvt and more
  8. Transport
    1. Line drawing of a raised four-wheel-drive panel van with roof bars, side view20Off-road van, with air-con

What a survey delivers has changed beyond recognition. In 1989 it was a drawing. Today, one visit can give you a controlled point cloud, 3D models, 2D drawings and a virtual tour.

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

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