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The interest in our new Rapid 3D service using laser scanning has been amazing. The development never stops and with so much more to come, we can't wait!
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Competitive fee promise
We're confident you're getting the best value.
It's simple our fee promise means we won’t be beaten on price! We look forward to helping our clients maintain their competitive edge during 2012.
Scan2BIM - Growth forecast
Latest Autodesk Revit® version includes point cloud tools to connect laser scans directly within the Building Information Management (BIM) process
Benefit now from lower survey cost and increased content all delivered in a fraction of the time taken in the past. Why 2D survey when you can 3D scan more for less?
Scanning Edinburgh
Surveying existing buildings at Shandwick Place and Queensferry Street in Edinburgh for a proposed Boutique Hotel provided an interesting challenge.
Measured elevations, floor plans and sections were delivered from the Rapid 3D scans. Another case of why survey when you can scan more for less?
Planned transition
Loy Surveys Managing Director Jim Loy has expressed his wishes to step down in June 2012. Full press release
Loy features in Leica video
Loy Surveys feature in new Leica corporate video released at the ten UK road show venues attended by 1,000+ delegates
Click on our TV or YouTube Channel (4mins) it includes six comments from interview with Jim Loy
Rapid 3D event comments..
"thanks for doing seminar, great to see someone excited again about business"
"I enjoyed what I saw and would like to know more about the 3d survey services you offer"
"thank you for your Rapid 3D laser scanning technology CPD demonstration. It was a very informative and interesting talk on what appears to be the way forward for surveying"
Rapid 3D events were a great success and they can be booked for an in-house CPD presentation by contacting Janet on 0141 885 0800
Projects at risk
Sadly many land survey firms have gone and a few have started up again under another name, leaving behind the liabilities of the past.
Becker Geomatics, CMCR, Survey First and Jevons Surveys have all ceased trading after they went into liquidation. This has left behind a trail of devastation with projects exposed to risk
Appoint RICS regulated Chartered Land Surveyors
BIM mandate
The UK Government’s new Construction strategy states that Building Information Management (BIM) is to be used on Government projects by 2016 Read more
International Enquires
International enquires welcome we have worked in Ireland, Falklands, Germany, Portugal, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Georgia, Tanzania, Ghana, Morocco, Kenya and India. Can you add a new location?
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ICE Technical meeting
Jim Loy, Loy Surveys Managing Director presentation to the Institution of Civil Engineers
"Surveying in Civil Engineering"
The technical meeting covered the benefits of using new surveying technology and project case studies. If you wish to arrange an in-house CPD event please contact Janet Pope on 0141 885 0800
27 years excellence (1985-2012)
"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 TRUST most"
"People are 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.
Competitive edge in Kenya
Lo Surveys solo measurement technology saves travel costs on overseas commission as fewer surveyors are required to mobilise
Geomatics world
Read "Rapid 3D - embrace the point cloud" article (1.2mb PDF) published in Geomatics World magazine for RICS members
Surveying in 3D
Loy Surveys was tasked with surveying three cooling towers at the refinery to identify any movement, shape change or deformation in the tower structures. Read more.... "Surveying in 3D" (0.6mb PDF)
Rapid 3D latest
In this YouTube video (44 secs) you can see some of the benefits of using a laser scanner for surveying, including the capability to accurately model facades of buildings.
The point cloud can be used for 3D modelling, topographic mapping, elevations, etc.
Customer Survey
99% rate Loy Surveys as excellent or good
Rating
99% Excellent or good
1% Average, Fair or poor
Source: Annual online survey (309 replies)
Guide on Rapid 3D
For advice on how to gain maximum benefits of lower cost and greater content click
New Movie Channel
Moviecom TV The Online TV Channel for Business.... puts Loy Surveys on stage. Visit our new movie channel click here
Loy to launch new Rapid 3D
Rapid 3D Laser Scanning accurately measures and captures a "point cloud" of 3D co-ordinates which may be used to form a full digital model or as a record for analysis at a later date.  more
Leica Geosystems order
Forward thinking survey company first to invest in the latest 3D Laser Scanning technology more
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.
Chartered Engineering Surveyors
Loy Surveys one of the few surveyors in the UK approved by the RICS under both Chartered Engineering Surveyors and Chartered Land Surveyors designations
Service records provider...
National One Call have been selected as our preferred partner. Loy Surveys pass on a 10% discount on the standard search fee to our clients.
Alternatively if you just need service information phone 0844 800 9957 and quote"LOY" when ordering service information direct from National One Call to qualify for 10% discount
London and SE office
Our clients and Surveyors have a new office location in Harpenden covering London and South East.
GNSS replaces OS Benchmarks
Real time 3D co-ordinates related to Ordnance Survey national grid thanks to Loy Surveys investment in the new GNSS national network service.
Using the latest GNSS survey equipment our Surveyors are able to access a combined GPS and Glonass Network solution. The performance of the GPS/Glonass enabled equipment is quite staggering compared to conventional GPS only.
Utility Surveys
The new radio detection 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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