All Services

• Cadastral Surveying Cadastral or legal land surveying is the foundation on which the Underhill Group was built. Underhill has provided professional land surveying services since 1913, in British Columbia, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. The firm can offer a broad range of expertise in such matters as title searches, land acquisitions, property tit...
• Housing Development and Renovation Surveys Underhill offers complete land survey services for new housing and home renovation projects. All land surveys required by municipal authorities for residential development are provided, including site (topographic) surveys, building and excavation layout, laneway housing surveys (Vancouver), form/foundation certificates, building location certif...
• Construction Surveying Underhill provides comprehensive development- and building-related survey services for major construction projects, including topographic surveys, route surveys (roads, utilities), construction layouts, grid line layouts, as-built surveys, highway construction surveys, pipeline construction surveys, railway construction surveys, and mine constru...
• Three Dimensional Laser Scanning Continuing to be on the forefront of survey technology, Underhill has added three dimensional laser scanning to our wide variety of services. This service provides unprecedented detail and accuracy in as-built surveys. Data are collected at rates of up to 1,000,000 points per second, with millimetre precision. These "clouds" of data can be used ...
• Engineering Surveying Throughout its history, Underhill has provided engineering surveying services throughout British Columbia, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. These services include environmental monitoring and well surveys, three dimensional laser scanning, precise machinery alignment, structural deformation monitoring, settlement monitoring, h...
• Geodetic Surveying In the 1920s, Underhill completed numerous triangulation surveys for topographic mapping and coastal charting throughout British Columbia. We continue to provide these geodetic surveying services today—albeit with much greater accuracy and efficiency: project planning and logistics, geodetic control, precise levelling, automated control ob...
• Computation and CAD Mapping Underhill has been providing electronic computing related services since the 1960s. Today these services include drafting—supporting all major CAD packages, coordinate geometry (COGO), least-squares survey network adjustment and analysis, cadastral map compilation, digital terrain modeling (DTM), area and volume calculations, railway ali...
• Residential and Commercial Development Surveys As long as there has been condominium (strata) law, Underhill has been doing strata surveys. In fact, Underhill did the very first air space plan in Vancouver! Our residential and commercial development survey services include topographic surveys, construction layout, grid line layout, excavation monitoring, preliminary strata plans, air space ...
• Software Development Since the 1960's, Underhill has been at the forefront of software technology and development, both to support our own surveying and mapping activities, and for providing custom solutions to our clients: Copan – COGO and CAD software for survey professionals, custom GIS data conversion solutions, integrated positioning systems and mapping s...
• First Nations Land Claims Surveys The following represents an abridged introduction to First Nations land claims in Canada. For the sake of brevity many pertinent facts are omitted. For a start, you may wish to try Indian and Northern Affairs Canada The contemporary public perception of First Nations land claims is that they are a fairly recent phenomena resulting from a liberal...