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Monitoring surveys involve precise, repeated measurements of structures or ground to detect movement over time. They are used to confirm stability, provide early warning of potential problems, and satisfy regulatory requirements on projects where ground movement is a risk such as excavation adjacent to existing buildings, or stabilised slopes under observation.
Small movements caught early can be managed. The same movement discovered late can mean structural failure, regulatory action, or costly remediation. Many resource consent and building consent conditions now require certified monitoring data and beyond compliance, a monitoring programme is simply the responsible way to run a project that carries settlement risk.
We design and implement monitoring schemes in consultation with the project's geotechnical or structural engineers deciding how many points to monitor, where to locate them, and how frequently to survey. We install reflective prisms or marked bolts on structures and slopes, take an initial baseline survey, and resurvey at scheduled intervals. Results are presented as a table of movements per point, with trend graphs and plain language interpretation not just columns of coordinates. If any point exceeds a pre-agreed threshold, we can notify you immediately and can increase frequency to track the situation closely. Early warning delivered clearly: that's what the programme is for.
