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What to look for in a surveyor (and the red flags to avoid)
Choosing a surveyor isn’t always about price. It’s about making sure you get your project off to the right start. A good surveyor will be someone who works closely, accelerates your timeline, reduces your risk, and gives your design team absolutely everything they need from day one. But the wrong one? Delays, redesigns, and cost blowouts, to name just a few major headaches… Making the right choice means asking the
How do topographic surveys improve accuracy in stormwater & drainage designs?
Stormwater and drainage design lives and dies by one thing: accurate ground levels. If the data is off – even by just a little – it can result in everything from drainage lines that don’t fall to overflow risks during storms, DA rejections or delays, or even costly redesigns and rework onsite. This is why a high-quality topographic survey is critical to getting stormwater design right from day one. Stormwater
How survey plans improve building set-out accuracy
Building set-outs are the point where a project leaves the page, design meets reality, and your plans finally get in the dirt. But if your set-out is based on incomplete or inaccurate survey data, then you’re already on the path to costly construction errors, delays, and potential disputes – even before the slab is poured. That’s not acceptable when you’ve got a whole project timeline and budget riding on the
How Sonto’s survey turnaround time is beating the industry average in Brisbane
In a market where every week of delay costs you thousands, speed matters. But when it comes to land and detail surveys, many clients still wait 6 to 8 weeks for data that should take half that time. The question isn’t whether surveys take time. It’s whether they need to take that much time. At Sonto, we consistently deliver topographic and feature surveys within 2 to 3 weeks – and
What’s the cost of a topographic survey in Brisbane?
Before any building, renovation, subdivision, or development you might have planned in Brisbane, one of the first things you’ll need is a topographic survey. Also known as feature, detail, or contour surveys, these will be one of your earliest consultant costs in a project. Which, naturally, leads to the question: how much should you expect to pay for one? Let’s break down a few of the most important factors that
From site to screen: how our Brisbane surveyors empower designers to create better, faster
At Sonto, we don’t believe that what designers need are more files. They need better data that’s clean, accurate, complete, and ready to plug straight into their design environment. Our surveys are captured and delivered with the design workflow in mind. The aim? To reduce uncertainty early, so that your teams can move from site capture through to final documentation with fewer assumptions and less rework. If you’re an architect,
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