Design-conscious
spatial information

In the fast-paced commercial sector, our surveyors use 3D laser scanners to capture rich data sets quickly and efficiently, with minimal disruptions.

This provides a wealth of information that can then be packaged to suit multiple purposes for our clients, such as point clouds, floorplans, reflected ceiling plans, and more.

Our team works in a range of commercial environments including individual retail tenancies, shopping centres, offices and mixed-use developments. This includes recent work at a shopping centre on the Mornington Peninsula, where we coordinated with the architect and planners through multiple design iterations.

3D laser scanners are also a useful way of capturing a wealth of data quickly and unobtrusively when working on projects in the public realm.

For example, as part of our team’s wider work on Parks Victoria revitalisation projects at Wilsons Promontory, our Survey team was engaged as a sub-consultant to eplus architecture on the design and upgrade of the Tidal River Visitors Centre. Our surveyors delivered a point cloud of the existing visitors centre site and a level and feature survey of the surrounding area to support the future design work, including for our in-house Landscape Architecture team’s design for the outdoor spaces.

In our work together with architects on urban infill and redevelopment sites, our feature and level surveys inform early design decisions, often including a point cloud deliverable to support subsequent visualisation and design.

For example, in our work supporting a series of Orchard Piper’s premium residential developments in inner Melbourne, we’ve collaborated with Wardle and Kerry Hill Architects to ensure the details in our feature surveys meet their specific requirements. This includes at The Carter Building at 448 St Kilda Road, where Kerry Hill Architects have designed a landmark building with 54 residences and hotel.

Following on from the feature and level stage, our experienced team can then provide provisional plans of subdivision, advise on discussions with owners corporations, and manage the SPEAR submissions process, through to obtaining statement of compliance.

Our team is familiar with the level of fine detail required to accurately capture the features of heritage-listed structures. This often involves using more data points to create larger data sets, which provides our clients with the spatial information they need in these sensitive environments.

Surveyors from our Bendigo office have worked with the City of Greater Bendigo’s heritage team to create point clouds of significant historic buildings throughout the region, including multiple sites in the View Street precinct.