Professional Land Surveying Services
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Following is a comprehensive list of services provided by Tingley & Associates and what each service entails. Use this tool or, please contact us to further determine your survey needs. |
Mortgage Inspection
This is NOT a survey. This is to determine the location of all visible evidence of improvements, encroachments and easements on a parcel of land in question. This inspection is usually ordered by Lending institutions for sales of new property, refinancing or new construction loans.
Boundary Survey
The actual physical extent of property ownership, typically witnessed by monuments or markers, such as (typically iron rods, pipes or concrete monuments in the ground, but also tacks or blazes in trees, piled stone corners or other types of monuments) are measured, and a map, or plat, is drawn from the data.
Topographical Survey
This survey depicts the topography or the “lay of the land” of a specific parcel(s). Elevations are taken with surveying equipment at several points on the property and plotted on paper. Lines, called “contours,” are drawn to connect identical points of elevations. Contour lines are shown as assumed datum or USGS datum.
Alta/ACSM Land Title Survey
A surveying standard jointly proposed by the American Land Title Association and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping that incorporates elements of the boundary survey, mortgage survey, and topographic survey. ALTA/ACSM surveys, frequently shortened to ALTA surveys, are often required for real estate transactions.
As-Built Survey
A survey conducted several times during a construction project to verify, for local and state boards (USA), that the work authorized was completed to the specifications set on the Plot Plan or Site Plan. This usually entails a complete survey of the site to confirm that the structures, utilities, and roadways proposed were built in the proper locations authorized in the Plot Plan or Site Plan. As-builts are usually done 2-3 times during the building of a house; once after the foundation has been poured; once after the walls are put up; and at the completion of construction.
Plot Plan or Site Plan
A proposal plan for a construction site that include all existing and proposed conditions on a given site. The existing and proposed conditions always include structures, utilities, roadways, topography, and wetlands delineation and location if necessary. The plan might also, but not always, include hyrdology, drainage flows, endangered species habitat, FEMA Federal Flood Insurance Reference Maps and traffic patterns.
Soil Survey
This is the process of determining the soil types or other properties of the soil cover over a landscape, and mapping them for others to understand and use.
Subdivision Plan or Site Condominium
A plot or map based on a survey of a parcel of land. Boundary lines are drawn inside the larger parcel to indicated the creation of new boundary lines and roads . The number and location of plats, or the newly created parcels, are usually discussed back and forth between the developer and the surveyor until they are agreed upon. At this point monuments, usually in the form of Concrete monuments or iron rods or pins, are driven into the ground to mark the lot corners and curve ends, and the plat is recorded in the County Register of Deeds office.
Construction Staking
This type of survey is the process of establishing and marking the position and detailed layout of new structures such as buildings, utilities, roads, driveways, parking areas, sidewalks, curb & gutter, etc. for subsequent construction.
Remonumentation
In 1991, the State of Michigan decided to remonument all of the section corners and 1/4 corners of each section in each township in each county throughout the state. All government corners would then be permanent objects and recorded at the County Register of Deeds offices. This program is funded by a State grant and Tingley & Associats has a contract for the remonumentation of Montcalm and Gratiot counties. GPR – Ground Penetrating Radar
A method that uses low frequency radio waves to image the subsurface and detects the reflected signals from subsurface structures. GPR can be used in a variety of media, including rock, soil, ice, fresh water, pavements and structures. It can detect objects, changes in material, direction of drainage pipes, water lines and gas lines or any existent object without disrupting the surface. GPR uses transmitting and receiving antennas. The transmitting antenna radiates short pulses of the high-frequency radio waves into the ground. When the wave hits a buried object the receiving antenna records the echoes and builds computer images.
Tingley & Associates uses the latest technology for surveying and mapping
including GPS, Topcon APL-1 total stations. |
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