Services

Six ways we describe an existing building.

Every service below produces the same kind of thing: a dimensioned, checked drawing of what is really there. What changes is the building and how far the record has to go.

Measured building surveys

The core service. We attend site and record the building room by room — wall lines, openings, floor levels, ceiling heights and structure where it is visible — then draft it into a dimensioned set.

  • Floor plans, every level
  • Elevations and sections
  • Photographic site record

As-built CAD documentation

Turning a site record into files your team can design over. Layered CAD with consistent line weights, real blocks and a title block, issued alongside flattened PDFs for site use.

  • DWG and DXF issue
  • PDF set at nominated scales
  • Layer naming to your standard

Scan-to-CAD conversion

If point cloud data already exists for the building, we register it, take slices at the right heights and trace it into clean two-dimensional drawings — no more guessing at a cloud on screen.

  • Cloud registration and clean-up
  • Plan, elevation and section slices
  • Dimensioned CAD output

Heritage and existing-building records

Older Melbourne stock rewards patience: nothing is square, floors move, and additions hide behind lining. We draw the fabric as found, including the parts that do not fit the original plan.

  • Fabric-as-found drawings
  • Detail studies of joinery and openings
  • Notes on later alterations

Area schedules and space planning

Areas calculated from the measured drawing rather than from an agent's brochure, tabulated room by room, so leasing, costing and space planning all start from the same figures.

  • Room-by-room area schedule
  • Areas taken from the survey geometry
  • Test-fit and layout options

Drawing set production

Sheet setup, title blocks, revision control and the tidy-up of inherited files. Useful when a set has been passed between hands and no longer reads as one document.

  • Sheet and title block setup
  • Revision control and re-issue
  • Clean-up of inherited CAD files

Deliverables

What lands in your inbox

Every engagement is issued as one package, not a trickle of files. You get the editable drawings, the printable set and the evidence behind them at the same time.

Where a survey has to be staged — a tenanted building, a live site, staged demolition — we agree the issue dates up front and each stage is issued complete rather than as a partial file.

Standard issue

  • Editable CAD — DWG plus DXF, layered and blocked
  • PDF set — plotted to the nominated scale with a title block
  • Area schedule — where areas form part of the brief
  • Site photographs — keyed to the plan so a note can be located
  • Assumptions register — everything we could not verify on site
  • Revision notes — on any subsequent re-issue

Engagement

How we price it

Measured surveys are quoted as a fixed fee once we know the building. The variables are floor area, the number of levels, how much detail the drawings have to carry, and how difficult access is going to be — a tenanted upper floor takes longer than an empty warehouse of the same size.

We would rather ask three questions before quoting than issue a number we have to revise later. Send the address and the purpose of the drawings and we will tell you what the survey needs to cover.

Enquiries

Next step

Get a fixed price

Address, approximate floor area, number of levels and what the drawings are for. That is usually enough for us to quote.