This module covers various chapters that relate to site surveying. This module provides a great opportunity for students to learn and experience real practice in site surveying by using surveying equipments provided. Site surveying covers any survey work carried out in connection with the construction of an engineering project, such as a road, a building, a bridge etc.

 

The main purposes are listed below​ :

 

• To determine the required areas and volumes of land and materials needed during construction.

• To ensure that the construction takes place in the correct realtive and absolute position on the ground.

• To record the final position of the construction, including any design changes.

• To provide permanent control points from which particularly important projects can be surveyed - such as regular monitoring a construction to check for movement.

 

Surveyors work with elements of mathematics (geometry and trigonometry), physics, engineering and the law. They use equipment like total stations, robotic total stations, GPS receivers, prisms, 3D scanners, radios, handheld tablets, digital levels, GIS and surveying software. Surveying has been an element in the development of the human environment since the beginning of recorded history. The planning and execution of most forms of construction require it. It is also used in transport, communications, mapping, and the definition of legal boundaries for land ownership.