3D Settlement Monitoring in Bowen Island

In Bowen Island, ensuring the long-term stability of your structural assets, deep excavations, and adjacent properties is a paramount financial and safety priority. 3D settlement monitoring surveys are highly specialized processes required to identify and track the minute movement of construction elements over time, including slope stability, ground settlement, and structural deformation. In British Columbia, determining the location of any natural or artificial feature relative to a boundary for the purpose of certifying it in writing is exclusively defined as the "practice of land surveying" under the Land Surveyors Act. Engaging a commissioned British Columbia Land Surveyor (BCLS) ensures your monitoring program possesses the uncompromising statutory authority and elite geomatics precision required to protect your project from catastrophic liability.

Long-term monitoring surveys require a sensible and rigorous approach to collecting the information necessary to derive the exact differences between one set of monitoring data and the next. To achieve the absolute and relative accuracy tolerances demanded by geotechnical and structural engineers, our firm deploys an elite arsenal of cutting-edge equipment. We establish a highly robust primary geodetic control network using Static GNSS and RTK GNSS Receivers. Because the foundation of any monitoring program is the accuracy and stability of its control network, our survey crews deploy millimeter-accurate Robotic Total Stations to run redundant, closed-loop traverses to secure the site. When comprehensive structural monitoring is required, we utilize Terrestrial 3D Laser Scanning to capture precise, high-density point clouds of the as-built conditions, opening up advanced geometric analysis for rockfaces, complex structures, and inaccessible terrain. Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) equipped with Aerial Drone LiDAR and photogrammetry can also be deployed to safely model expansive slopes and terrain changes over time.