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Less risk and uncertainties. Getting things done on time and well within budget. That’s what Geo-data can do for you, and we deliver it right into your hands. How? By using cutting-edge survey equipment and software to examine, map, and monitor the built and natural environment. From advanced technical survey solutions to more conventional survey methods, our capabilities include dimensional control, laser scanning, and mobile mapping. Our data management services are designed to provide both raw data and processed information. Whatever your project needs.
Sylvain Lacombe
Global lead - Survey and dimensional control
Precision and Efficiency: The Role of Dimensional Control Surveys in Modern Projects
What is a dimensional control survey?
A dimensional control survey is a specialised survey designed to align key elements in construction and engineering projects. By employing advanced techniques like 3D laser scanning and mobile mapping, it ensures all dimensions meet the project’s design specifications, providing accurate Geo-Data solutions for offshore and onshore surveys. Whether for engineering survey services or construction surveys, these surveys help minimise errors, reduce risks, and ensure timely, cost-effective project completion. With a clear dimensional control plan and detailed dimensional control reports, supported by survey expertise and data management services, projects can maintain accuracy, avoid re-designs, and achieve efficient execution.
How do Geo-Data solutions advance site surveys?
Geo-data solutions provide highly accurate, detailed information about the project site, essential for informed decision-making throughout the project. The availability of archived data elimination streamlines processes, reduces mistakes, and leads to cost reductions and efficiency improvements in project management. Technologies like dimensional control surveys capture accurate measurements, ensuring all components fit together with a guaranteed fit and preventing clash-free integration during installation. These solutions allow for early detection of potential issues, avoiding costly rework or delays.
By integrating dimensional control management and control surveys, Geo-Data solutions track and monitor data in real-time, ensuring project specifications are met. The information gathered through survey services helps adjust designs as needed, optimising workflows and reducing errors. From prefabricated items elimination to improving components availability, Geo-Data solutions provide substantial benefits by enhancing accuracy and streamlining the process, saving both time and costs.
Streamlining infrastructure projects with dimensional control systems
Dimensional control systems streamline infrastructure projects through advanced survey and dimensional control techniques. By cutting down the need for hot work, such as welding and grinding, these systems ensure greater safety and efficiency during installation processes. Using tools like mobile mapping, and precision surveying, these systems help assist dimensional control surveys and create detailed dimensional control plans to reduce errors and improve efficiency. With integrated data management services and survey expertise, they provide accurate dimensional control reports and reliable survey controls to optimise workflows and resolve issues early, ensuring successful outcomes for construction surveys, engineering services, and offshore and onshore surveys.
How data management services support large-scale projects
Data management services are key components in supporting large-scale projects by ensuring the accurate collection, organisation, and analysis of critical data throughout the project life cycle. Implementing these management practices can eliminate the need for re-design during installation, therefore saving time and reducing costs associated with project rework. Using survey services and advanced dimensional control survey methods, these services track progress, and help prevent errors while optimising workflows to keep projects on schedule and within budget. By supporting complex dimensional control applications, they enhance communication and collaboration, ensuring the information gathered from control surveys and survey expertise is efficiently managed and accessible to decision-makers.
The role of dimensional control surveys in sustainability and safety
These surveys promote sustainability and ensure safety by delivering accurate measurements and reducing errors. By providing precise data, they help reduce the waste of materials and resources, supporting environmentally responsible construction practices and more efficient use of raw materials. This reduces unnecessary consumption, optimises the use of energy, and helps lower the carbon footprint of construction projects.
To ensure project safety, dimensional control surveys also identify potential hazards early in the process. By catching issues such as misalignments or design inconsistencies before they escalate, they enable proactive measures to protect workers and the surrounding environment. Their accuracy and reliability, especially in large-scale projects, contribute to safer worksites and more sustainable, resilient infrastructure. This leads to fewer delays, lower costs, and a greater ability to adapt to evolving project needs while maintaining safety and sustainability standards.
Case study
Survey services for one of the world’s largest natural gas projects
The Gorgon Project is one of the world’s largest natural gas projects and the largest single resource development in Australia’s history. We were asked to provide land, marine, engineering, and dimensional control survey services during the construction of the project.
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3D Laser scanning for dimension control
When two enormous industrial condensers - 8 metres long and weighing 53 tons – needed to be replaced, Fugro’s experts worked alongside other specialists at Shell’s Moerdijk plant in The Netherlands.
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Trans Asia pipeline route investigation
One of the world's largest oil companies planned to design and build a whopping 900-kilometre natural gas pipeline from China to the border between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The pipeline would cross one of the most active tectonic regions in the world. A geographical and logistical challenge. One we were happy to help tackle – we were brought in for consultancy plus a data acquisition and interpretation plan
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Sylvain Lacombe
Global lead - Survey and dimensional control
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