IT Support for Surveyors

From a day on site to a drawing the client can trust

A survey crew spends a morning on a site in Croydon walking a boundary with a GNSS rover and a total station, then scanning a building elevation with a laser scanner. By mid-afternoon that work is a controller full of coordinates and a scan file measured in gigabytes. None of it earns anything until it lands safely back at the office, is processed into a drawing, and reaches the client. The IT underneath that chain is what turns a day in the field into a deliverable.

We provide IT support built around how surveying practices actually work — from the kit outdoors to the workstation that renders the final plan.

What we look after

• Field data-capture devices — total stations, GNSS/GPS rovers, data collectors and controllers, and laser scanners, plus the reliable transfer of their readings back to the office
• Large survey and drawing files — point clouds, scan registrations and photogrammetry that run to many gigabytes, on storage and networks sized for them
• Mapping and CAD software — LSS, N4CE, Leica Cyclone, Trimble Business Center, AutoCAD Civil 3D and GIS tools such as QGIS or ArcGIS, plus Ordnance Survey mapping data
• Processing workstations — machines specified with the CPU, GPU, RAM and fast storage that point-cloud registration and modelling demand, not generic office PCs
• Reliable backups — tested, versioned copies so a survey can’t disappear between the field and the final drawing

The pressures specific to your work

A survey is a legal record of measurement. A wrong coordinate, a corrupted control file or a scan lost before it is processed doesn’t just cost time — it can put a boundary, a setting-out or a party-wall position in question. Data integrity matters here more than almost anywhere: the numbers on the drawing have to be exactly what the instrument recorded.

Then there is the volume. A single laser-scan job can fill a drive on its own, so storage, transfer and backup all have to keep pace with the kit. As a RICS-regulated practice you also carry duties around client confidentiality and record retention — surveys must be kept, findable and protected for years after the job closes. Sound backup and continuity and cyber security aren’t extras here; they protect the practice’s core asset, which is its data.

How we help

We work as your outsourced IT team — managed IT support that keeps workstations, servers, licences and storage healthy, plus quick help when something breaks. Most issues we fix remotely; when a scanner won’t talk to a workstation, a controller needs configuring or the office network needs hands on it, we come to you across South London, Croydon and Surrey. All support is delivered at your office or online — there is no counter to visit.

Who this is for

Land, measured-building, topographical and geomatics surveyors — sole practitioners or a small office — who capture data in the field and process it into drawings the client relies on. If your survey data is your livelihood, we keep it moving, backed up and safe.