Construction Review & Inspection
Review and site inspection to assist with construction projects.
During the construction phase of a project, it is important to understand the underlying intent of the designs. GM BluePlan provides engineering services to ensure continuity between the design and the construction phases of a project, including construction reviews, site inspection, and contract administration.
At GM BluePlan, our senior design team members will remain involved with a project throughout the construction process, in order to provide consistency for the client and improve decision-making efficiency. If challenges arise during the build, our team will be able to provide clarity on the intent behind major design choices and help to implement the right solution.
Our approach to construction avoids handoffs between different design teams and ensures that no one is blindly following specs, without a big picture view of the project. All of our construction inspectors have surveying experience and are trained on all the latest equipment, allowing them to measure and locate new infrastructure as it is installed and provide current information upon project completion.
Surveying Services
At GM BluePlan, our surveying services utilize the latest equipment and advanced techniques to provide detailed surveys for construction.
For GPS surveys, we use the Can-Net Virtual Reference Station Network. With 275 stations across Canada, the Can-Net system provides users with the greatest precision, the fastest initialization time, and largest coverage area of any positioning network in Canada.
Our surveying services include:
- Pre-engineering topographical surveys using electronic total stations as well as GPS data collection equipment.
- As-constructed surveys for subdivision development and design build projects.
- Construction layout for earth moving and construction of municipal infrastructure, roads, and other structures.
- Computer-generated digital terrain models, profiles, cross sections, volume calculations, and cut/fill balance analysis and grading machine control.
- Asset inventory surveys for confirmation of existing asset location and elevation, which can be used directly for various modeling applications.
- Setting and establishing second order benchmarks for municipalities.
