Setting Out Survey Equipment
icelabz provides setting out services for construction projects. Setting out engineers establish survey control, set out grid lines and levels, and verify construction against design.
Setting Out Services
Setting out covers pre-start survey and control establishment. Boundary setting out verified against title plans. Structural setting out for foundations, piles, walls, and columns. As-built verification surveys at each stage. Monitoring surveys for adjacent structures.
All setting out reviewed by senior surveyor. Fixed-fee pricing with no hidden charges.
Fixed-Fee Setting Out
icelabz provides fixed-fee setting out. Survey scope confirmed before instruction. No hidden charges.
Contact icelabz with your construction requirements for a fixed-fee quote.
Setting Out Survey Equipment: The Tools Used
The setting out service uses several types of survey equipment, each selected based on the accuracy band and the type of setting out being undertaken. The five typical service categories are pre-start survey and control establishment (the initial visit to establish the site survey control, tie the new design to the existing boundary, and set up the reference points that the setting out will be tied back to throughout the project), boundary setting out (verification of the legal boundary against the title plan, typically with markers at agreed intervals), structural setting out (transfer of the design to ground for foundations, piles, walls, columns, drainage, and other design elements, scheduled in line with the construction programme, with one to three visits per phase for foundations, drainage, and superstructure), as-built verification surveys (a recorded confirmation of the actual built positions for sign-off and the O and M file, typically scheduled at the end of the project or at handover), and monitoring surveys for adjacent structures (where the proposed works could affect a neighbouring building, typically scheduled throughout the construction phase at the trigger levels and reporting frequency). The typical equipment used is total station (for precise angle and distance measurement, with typical accuracy of plus or minus 1 to 3 mm at distances up to 1 km, used for boundary setting out, structural setting out, and as-built verification), GPS (for GNSS-based positioning, with typical accuracy of plus or minus 10 to 20 mm in real-time kinematic mode, used for control establishment and large-site setting out), digital level (for precise height measurement, with typical accuracy of plus or minus 0.5 to 2 mm per km of double-run levelling, used for drainage inverts and floor levels), laser level (for general site levelling, with typical accuracy of plus or minus 2 to 5 mm at 30 m, used for setting out formwork and foundation levels), and scan to BIM (for as-built verification of complex geometry, with typical accuracy of plus or minus 5 to 10 mm, used for handover packages and COBie data). icelabz responds with a fixed-fee quote within twenty-four hours. The cost bands are typical ranges for UK setting out work: half-day visit (300 to 500 pounds ex VAT), full day (500 to 900 pounds ex VAT), and day rate contract (300 to 600 pounds ex VAT). A signed accuracy statement is the QA evidence for downstream design, setting out, and construction use, and all icelabz setting out work is undertaken to the accuracy bands defined by the RICS Measured Surveys of Land, Buildings and Utilities standard (3rd edition) and is issued with a signed accuracy statement at handover.