Featured Surveying Projects
Military Air Field
The Australian Defence Force have used Surveyors in a range of military operations, with the most recent being the construction of a Military Airfield. The aim of this project was to construct an Assault Landing Zone capable of landing military aircrafts in the Northern Territory. The project used the latest GPS equipment to support the design and construction of the airstrip.
Speed Calibration Baseline
Car manufacturers need to calibrate the speedometers in all new vehicles to make sure they are travelling at the identified speed. Surveyors determine the speed by using high-tech equipment and legal principles in measurement standards to accurately determine speed and distance.
Mt Barker Bowling Club
The ‘Super Dome’ over the greens of the Mt Barker Bowling Club SA is a 40m x 40m domed structure consisting of 5m sections of steel each interconnected to create the domed shape once tensioned. Surveyor’s first task in the process was to set out each intersection on the bowling green itself to a high accuracy. This required Surveyors to lay the curved surface coordinates of the dome on the flat plane of the Bowling Green. Much like Cartographers do when reflecting the curved earth surface on a flat piece of paper. The “jigsaw puzzle” of pieces was then laid flat on the green in line with grid of marks setout earlier before Surveyors put it under tension.
Port River Expressway Project in Port Adelaide, The Complex Basclue and Opening Bridges
During almost all phases, construction Surveyors have a very hands on job in obtaining and using data. During the Port River Expressway Project in Port Adelaide, The Complex Basclue and Opening Bridges, the structures had to be built from both sides of the bank and aligned to give perfect closure especially important for the railway Basclue Bridge.
Cooper Basin
Located in North Eastern South Australia and South Western Queensland, the Cooper Basin is the largest onshore gas reserve in Australia. Surveyors play a key role in the extraction and refinement of oil and gas resources in the Cooper Basin. Working in conjunction with Geologists they locate underground reservoirs of oil and gas and are responsible for positioning drilling rigs in order to extract these reserves. Surveyors are then responsible for selecting the optimal route for a pipeline through the sensitive desert environment in order to transport this oil back to a processing and export facility, which can be hundreds of kilometres away.
Mawson Lakes Residential and Commercial Sectors
The success of the Mawson Lakes residential and commercial sectors sets a bench mark in the Australian Land Development Industry. Surveyors have been one of the key consultants offering land tenure advice, cadastral, engineering and construction Surveys for the creation of the new suburb. They have also been involved in dealing with the sensitive issues of cultural heritage in the built form and Aboriginal sites of significance, the protection of significant trees and the creation of biodiversity corridors including the formation of wetlands.
Gippsland Water Factory
The Gippsland Water Factory is a waste treatment and recycling system located in the Gippsland region in Victoria. As a leader in sustainability and innovation, it will be the first waste water treatment plant in Australia to incorporate recycling at the start, rather than add it to the existing infrastructure. The system will treat up to 35 million litres of domestic and industrial waste water daily. On completion of the first stage of the project, the Gippsland Water Factory will produce up to 8 million litres of high quality recycled water for industrial use each day.
Sydney Opera House
The shells and tiles of the Sydney Opera House had to be sited to 3mm accuracy. This was the most challenging three dimensional structure ever built in Australia. In the mid-1960s, Sydney only had one computer, the size of a room to assist with the complex Spatial calculations. The Surveyors were responsible for ensuring that all 10,000 tile bolts were aligned correctly so that prefabricated tiles would fit like a huge jigsaw puzzle. This was all achieved in the days before portable electronic instruments. Surveyors continue to monitor the Opera House for any signs of settling or deformation.