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Managing through recession

The best advice comes from those who have experienced difficult times. .

"Choose your partners well"

You must be confident they will be around so be careful on who you select. Chartered Land Surveyors display the RICS logo.

Why it's important to use an RICS surveyor

Utility Surveys

The new radiodetection scanning equipment will improve the ability to locate underground services. We are expanding our capability to satisfy the growing demand for this vitally important service.

3D scanning & digital imaging

The new Spatial Imaging Total Station does the same job as our fleet of robotic/reflex instruments with the added ability to record and geo-reference digital photography.

We are confident our customers will see the benefit right away as it will help reduce delivery times and cost. More importantly it will offer the opportunity for value added services such as rectified photography at an affordable cost.

The Trimble VX integrates state-of-the-art optical, 3D scanning, and digital imaging technology to capture the shape, detail and coordinates.

GNSS replaces GPS

Modern GNSS receivers access both Navstar (GPS) and Glonass systems providing improved coverage and accuracy than possible with GPS alone. The GNSS receivers output real time 3D co-ordinates relative to the Ordnance Survey National Network. Loy Surveys only use GNSS receivers.

23 years excellence (1985-2008)

"When making the final decision as to who will get the contract, the determining factor is never made on price, product, quality, value, policy. It always comes down to the same thing -- who do they TRUSTmost"

"People are willing to instruct Loy Surveys because they trust us. Since we've been around for a long time, it tells people that we know what we're doing, we're good at it, we're still in business because people are satisfied with us, and we'll be around for a long time to come.

A very special thanks to all our customers for making this achievement possible.

Annual Customer Survey

iPOD winner was Chris Pasteur from Npower Renewables, one of the UK's leading renewable engery companies.

Rating

94% Excellant or good

5% Average

less than 1% Fair or poor
Source: Annual online survey (590 replies)

New Mapping and data centre

Ordnance Survey business and mapping tools are available direct from Loy Surveys who are one of the newly appointed OS Mapping and data centres.

Ordnance Survey Benchmarks

The new GPS based OS national control network has made the older control networks redundant and bench mark information has been removed from latest OS Mapping.

The RICS in collaboration with the OS have released guidelines on the new GPS based OS control network for Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Contractors. Loy Surveys recommend using OSNet in preference to OSBM's

Quality Assurance renewed

In 1989 Loy were the first Land Survey firm in the UK to be awarded QA. Thanks to the dedication of the team the certificate was again renewed for a further 3 years following an recent review of the system by the external auditors SGS.

Survey awards in Edinburgh

Loy Surveys new Edinburgh office has been awarded a number of key topographical and measured building surveys which includes a survey along the route of the proposed Edinburgh Tram.

Surveying at the Open

Loy surveys were commissioned to survey the greens and bunkers; providing geospatial data for the television graphics seen by a worldwide audience. see photo of surveyor in action with dGPS on the golf course

Loy comes up Trumps

The consultants for Trump International Golf Links have appointed Loy Surveys to carry the survey and mapping of the site for the proposed premier Golf course development in Scotland.

Survey equipment order

The recent £400,000 order replaced our entire fleet of robotic/reflex survey instruments and GPS as well as introducing a new standard handheld interface to provide real time computing on site.

Our customers are seeing the benefits right away with the reduced workflow leading to faster deliver times than were possible in the past.

All GPS receivers will be linked to the new OS GPS network for instant access to the Ordnance Survey National Grid and level datum at the click of a button.

Its all part of our aim to offer you the best possible service at a competitive cost.

Edinburgh office opened

Now our clients and Surveyors have a base in Edinburgh to service the increasing volume of survey work in this area.

ICE Buried Services conference

Loy Surveys exhibited at the recent "Geospatial Future of Buried Services in Scotland" conference attended by utility company engineers, transportation engineers, highway engineers, emergency services, local authority engineers and academics.

LiDAR Survey in Morocco

The Lidar survey was carried out from a helicopter.

25 million 3D points were recorded over the survey area in less than 5 hours to form a digital terrain model (DTM) of the ground surface. This method was chosen as the site was covered with vegetation making traditional survey methods slow and expensive.

Chartered Engineering Surveyors

RICS approval granted to use new designation Chartered Engineering Surveyors making Loy Surveys one of the first in the UK

New airport in Tanzania

Tanzania plan a new airport at Songwe following Loy surveys visit to carry out topographical survey of the existing grass landing strip. Real time GPS was used meaning only one Surveyor needed to travel to site.

Chester amphitheatre

During the topographical survey at Chester amphitheatre excavations uncovered many of the remains which our Surveyor accurately recorded plan and level position using robotic total station (RTS) measuring equipment allowing solo working on site.

Ground Radar

Failure to establish buried utilities may be a thing of the past thanks to real time ground radar equipment that Loy Surveys use to locate non metallic underground services such as plastic water and gas pipes.

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