Service Category: Construction

Services:

• Metro Atlanta House Staking
• Road Staking: curb and gutter, sidewalk, curb cut and driveway apron.
• Metro Atlanta Utility Staking: sewer manhole, drainage catch basin, headwall and culvert, rip-par
• Detention pond
• Metro Atlanta Property Line Staking: for fence installation, landscape project

After the Construction Siteplan in Metro Atlanta gets approved, builder is on the way to start the construction in the field. All the proposed elements such as house, driveway, decks, retaining walls must be installed exactly where they are indicated on the siteplan.

Mostly in town lots are not very wide and proposed buildings are to be located just within the building setbacks determined by the zoning regulations and in these cases all exterior corners of the structure must be staked on the ground with great accuracy. We as Atlanta Land Surveyors establish a coordinate network with horizontal and vertical controls from the beginning of the property and use it throughout the project to calculate and precisely determine exact location of corners of proposed structures where we place wooden stakes with the appropriate descriptions. (example: PL – property line, HC – house corner)

Atlanta House Staking is very important step in the construction process, that is where foundation of the building will be on your parcel of land within building setbacks. All other building finishing’s take place after foundation construction and we can not emphases enough – how important is to have foundation in the right place. You might ask us: “Who in the world would not follow guide lines and take risks?” Oh well, we have seen cases where builders would assume proposed location and lay out building in the entirely wrong place themselves and you probably image for yourself how expensive it is to remove the building and start all over again.

Suggestion – give construction staking project in Metro Atlanta to professionals to handle. Call Survey Land Express and we would be glad to provide Land Surveying Service that will move your project forwards smoothly.

In most cases when home owners or builders want to improve the property structurally, such as:

• constructing a new building
• making a home addition
• proposing a new concrete drive/parking lot
• installing in ground pool
• major landscaping design with grading

the county building department will require to have a construction siteplan of what you plan on doing.

Construction siteplans in Atlanta especially in Fulton, Dekalb, Cobb counties must show following items:

• boundary of the property with bearing and distances
• all the existing locations on the land parcel (buildings, driveways, decks, patios, etc)
• topography (xisting elevation contours and proposed contours, how much dirt will be removed and how much to be brought)
• trees including the diameter dimensions and species (hardwood or pine trees)
• utilities (sewer, water, gas, electricity, water wells if apply)
• easements (drainage, sewer, power and others)
• zoning (with building setbacks and other restriction per zoning category)
• proposed elements (new building, additions, etc)
• lot acreage and lot coverage (including impervious area and % ratio)

These are the main items, but there are many other details that are required to be on the Construction siteplans in Metro Atlanta counties and we at Survey Land Express always follow the checklist from the Building Departments to make sure we show all necessary details. We want to deliver absolutely accurate Construction Siteplan to you as a customer that you receive a building permit at the first visit to the counties building permit office. By using siteplan checklist we make sure that we show everything correctly and what the inspectors at the county are looking for.