Works

CWS Surveyors have demonstrated extensive expertise in diverse sectors. They have played a significant role in surveying services for large-scale Tier 1 projects such as Gas Liquification Plants and Mining Infrastructure constructions. Additionally, their involvement in sub-divisions, highway and pipeline construction, civil and general construction projects, along with their specialisation in survey-grade aerial mapping, showcases their commitment to delivering high-quality services across Queensland and the Northern Territory.

Oil & Gas

    • Setout and survey managment of stick built and modular structure placements

    • Setout and conformance of civil and concrete works including foundations, stands, skids, pedestals, plinths and hold-down bolts

    • Establishment and management of primary, secondary and tertiary project survey control and monitoring networks

    • Storage tank hydrostatic surveys and monitoring

    • Mechanical setout for equipment placed including primary compressors, turbines, crane rails, verticle flares and numerous complex vesslels

    • Management of construction, as constructed and survey conformance procedures and reporting for all works completed on site

CWS Surveyors have had extensive experience in the provision of surveying services to the gas export industry. Primarily in the provision of surveying services for detailed large-scale gas liquification plant and supporting plant construction projects.

CWS Surveyors has been involved in all stages of construction on these large-scale facilities and has successfully provided the following services;

Mining & related plant

CWS Surveyors provides extensive surveying support to the mining industry in QLD and throughout the Northern Territory. Services are primarily focused on the provision of high level engineering and construction surveying on mine-related development, upgrade and expansion projects. 

We are very proud of the long-term relationships we have built with our mining clients and of the high-grade services we continue to provide. 

Over the years staff have been involved in numerous mining upgrade and development works providing full surveying support on the following; 

    • Providing high resolution Aerial imagery

    • Produce survey grade topographic maps

    • Complete asset inspections

    • Multispectral and thermal imagery

    • The collection, collaboration of permenant and temporary infrastructure.

    • Mapping of underground structures including buried services

    • Site topographic models for design

    • Tails drying facility

    • New large-scale plant construction

    • Tailings dam construction

    • Airstrip & associated infrastructure construction

    • Haul Road construction

    • Underground ventilation riser and fan construction

    • Large scale civil construction surface drainage surveys, assessment & design

    • Underground Construction surveying

    • Vegetation clearing Surveys

    • Rehabilitaion regrowth surveys via the use of multispectural imagery

    • Water level surveys

    • Processing Mill Upgrade and duplication works

    • Numerous Plant upgrade and shutdown projects

    • Numerous mill and mining infrastructure upgrade works

    • RIM and ROM pad upgrade works

    • Camp upgrade works and new camp construction works

    • Open Pit Wall Monitoring

    • Plant structural movement surveys

    • Subsidence monitoring

    • Tailings dam surveys

    • Erosion monitoring

total survey station setup in mine

Pipeline, Directional drilling & Associated Infrastructure

CWS Surveyors have been involved on several large-scale pipeline construction projects in both urban and rural environments across Queensland and the Northern Territory. In addition to standard open trench pipelaying works CWS Surveyors has detailed experience working with directional drillers on several high-profile projects. 

Pipeline & related infrastructure surveying works include;

    • Surveying setout of pipeline alignment and ROW for large-scale Water, Gas and Sewerage Projects

    • Setout drill alignments and beacon guides for horizontally drilled sections of pipe

    • Survey setout and monitoring for directionally drilled shore crossing pipeline projects including hydrographic surveying works for design

    • Setout of all associated infrastructure including pump stations, holding tanks and compressor stations

    • As-built conformance of laid pipe and associated infrastructure, compilation and provision of as-built submittals in suitable ADAC formats

    • Monitoring of existing infrastructure for settlement along and adjoining the ROW

    • Provide survey support in the monitoring of direction drilling and pipe placement through built up urban environments

total surveying equipment setup to survey a general construction site in Australia

Civil & General Construction

As well as our mining and plant construction works CWS Surveyors has been extensively involved in large and small scale civil and general construction projects across Queensland and the Northern Territory. 

Civil and general works include;

    • Residential, commercial and industrial construction surveying

    • High-rise construction setout and monitoring

    • Subdivision engineering and construction surveys

    • Large and small-scale feature, detail and as-constructed surveys

    • Highway and road construction and upgrade surveying

    • Tunneling roadway infrastructure surveys

    • Bulk earthworks projects

    • Infrastructure network surveying

    • Aerodrome upgrade works, including runway re-surfacing

aerial surveying drone setup to survey open cut mine in Australia

Aerial Surveying

As well as our primary engineering surveying function CWS Surveyors also specialise in the provision of survey grade aerial surveying data. Operating a fleet of small and mid-sized UAV platforms with the latest high-grade sensors we provide high resolution imagery, survey grade topographic data, high resolution multi spectral data and thermal imagery for all scale of project.

Aerial surveying capabilities include;

    • Large scale photogrammetric surveys providing survey grade topographic data

    • Provision of advanced thermal imagery

    • Provision of high-resolution multispectral imagery, currently operating the top of the line Micasence Altum sensor

    • Aerial photography

    • Asset inspection

    • Pipeline and road corridor surveying

    • Large scale works using proven extended range UAV systems

    • Survey grade topograchic models

    • Water shed and drainage analysis

    • Long and cross section generation

    • Construction progress volumes

    • Stockpile and material volumes

    • Surface analysis to design

    • Waste material tracking