CDN Services

Property Surveys: We do boundary surveys for real estate sales, residential and commercial/Industrial development, and property owners who need to know where their boundaries are. These can be done with, or without plans drawn that can show the legal limits of a parcel, fences, and buildings. In newer subdivisions where all the survey bars have been destroyed by construction, we frequently replace them and mark boundaries for new fence construction.

Reference Plans/ Severances: Many surveys are required to be registered in order to deal with easements, property severances and transfers. These plans range from single issue parts to hundreds of parts on multi-layered projects.

Topographic Surveys: deal with the horizontal and vertical position of the ground as well as every feature on the land and under it. Also called pre-engineering surveys, these detailed plans usually have contours and are digitally layered in computer modelling ready for the engineers, conservation authorities, planning departments, and municipalities for building/planning permit applications.

Subdivisions and Condominiums: We have completed hundreds of subdivision and condominium plans over the past 20 years and as the regulations and statutes change, we are able to work with all the new possibilities to devise new approaches and concepts. All of our major projects are tied into UTM coordinates and are calibrated with our precision GPS units that provide accuracy of +/- 5 millimeters. This allows for a very quick fix of any lost survey bar, and a way for the engineers and construction crews to work on site even after all the survey bars are destroyed. With respect to the condominiums, we have projects from Common Element condominiums where only the road is considered a condominium and all the surrounding properties are “parcels of tied land..POTL’s), to traditional condo towers with swimming pools and underground parking.

Housing Packages: For builders we have packages where we traditionally pre-coordinate a new house from a design and site plan, ensure it complies with by-laws, then stake for excavation. We set offsets and cuts to underside of footing, then pin all the exterior corners of the house in the hole, followed by a tie in survey with a plan and the top of foundation wall elevation as required by the various municipalities. There are many variations depending on your specific need.

Older Existing Survey Plans: These plans are available in an “as was” situation at www.landsurveyrecords.com. Please note that these plans are not current and may not reflect the present status of the land. Only an up-to-date survey can ensure that your plan is current.

Construction Surveys: Our construction survey department has projects doing layout on apartment buildings, manufacturing and industrial buildings, bridges, roads, water slides, landscape projects and more than 80,000 housing projects. Our involvement deals wit everything from footings to pilings and anchor bolts. The key to our construction department is our very experienced, conscientious people.

Project Management: Through the many construction/legal and especially subdivision and condominium projects we have done over the past 20 years, we have developed a very strong core group of lawyers, planners, architects, engineers etc., and can take your project from first concepts to completion. We also provide opportunities to partner in projects as well as arrange the capital to get the job done.