BUILDING ACCURACY
Over 30 years of field experience measuring and documenting existing structures for architects, structural engineers, commercial and residential clients.
A basic plan is typically something that the real estate agent or city planners have on file that will provide you the rough footprint of the structure. What it amounts to for architects, engineers, the local building department, state officials and building contractors is just a pretty sketch and most of the time inaccurate for construction projects. We have measured and documented a multitude of various structures including 1800’s historically deemed structures, single-story homes, multi-story hotels, restaurants, barns, and even a simple shed in your backyard to verify setbacks. Feel free to visit the News section for a sample of the existing buildings we have surveyed.
Residential
A building survey for residential structures such as single-family homes, two-family duplexes, or multi-family apartment complexes can be measured and documented providing you a current set of drawings of the existing conditions. Typically, the original construction documentation for 90% most residential structures has been lost or misplaced over time. Many of the original plans went with the builder that built the structure and the owner never retained a copy. Realtors usually have existing line-work based plans in their archives that are accurate enough for their area calculations, but isn’t accurate enough for construction and usually the floor below doesn’t match the floor above and is only a rough representation of the unit.
Commercial
A building survey for commercial structures such as bars, hotels, libraries, offices, department stores, restaurants can also be measured and documented providing you a current set of drawings of the existing conditions. Typically, the original construction documentation for most commercial structures has been lost or misplaced over time. In the very rare case, a whole set may be found, but that has only happened about 15% of the time over our decades of service. Sometimes a couple sheets may be located by the owner, but they may only be a partial set or in many cases the fire escape plan located on the wall that is a basic line drawing which isn’t helpful.