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Tight turn, big results.
You’re trying to keep the job moving, and now you’re staring down topo, ALTA, and boundary survey requirements, and no one’s giving you a straight answer. This guide breaks down the types of surveys, what they’re for, and when they’re required, so you can get the right scope the first time and move the process forward.
Robust Process & Methodology Ensures Success
A development group needed to maximize density on three adjacent, underutilized parcels for a phased multi-unit residential project.
Short Window, High Volume
A regional shoring and drilling company needed a third party to perform an as-built and exhibit of a potentially misplaced soldier pile in an active excavation at a busy downtown Seattle intersection.
Maximizing Development of Affordable Housing
Community Roots Housing needed to expand its affordable apartment development on a parcel that included several platted lots, an existing affordable building, and a large, underutilized, undeveloped area.
Accuracy. Precision. Repeat.
The ownership group of the Insignia Towers needed to monitor their two 50-story structures for settlement during and after the SR99 highway tunnel-boring project—the massive infrastructure effort known as Big Bertha.
Tight Turnaround, Big Results
Miscommunication between the property's acquisition partners had led to a last-minute need for a boundary survey, with a due diligence deadline looming.
Survey Puzzle, Solved
A client needed a boundary and Environmentally Critical Area (ECA) topographic survey for new single-family residential construction.
Communication Mitigates Mistakes
A client needed a 1A certification for an existing monopole and provided drawings showing a proposed design to be added to the structure.
Limited Topo Exhibits in Limited Time
A client needed 1A certifications and limited topography exhibits for 70 locations throughout the city of Redmond—all delivered by the end of the year.
Surveys & Service Build Trust
After living in the same home for 35 years, the homeowner's spouse had recently passed away. Now that they are considering selling, they want to confirm the boundaries of their parcel to avoid potential issues with current or future neighbors.
Creativity & Collaboration with Habitat for Humanity
A regional shoring and drilling company needed a third party to perform an as-built and exhibit of a potentially misplaced soldier pile in an active excavation at a busy downtown Seattle intersection.
Steep Slopes & Pony Kegs
A prominent brewery owner was purchasing a waterfront lot in Fauntleroy with an extremely tight feasibility period.
A Vision for Precision in Bremerton
A client had gone under contract on a commercial property in Bremerton and needed an ALTA survey to define the property to be purchased clearly.
Sought-After Land in U-Village
Guntower Capital needed a full ALTA/Topography survey for the land at University Village, one of Seattle's most sought-after real estate locations.
Design-Build in Bellevue
A large car dealership construction project in Bellevue required an extensive civil site construction survey after design flaws and incomplete plans were discovered.