80 | CONTRACTING is a mid-sized consultancy specialising in providing trusted advice, solutions and management in a timely, cost effective and efficient manner. From boundary disputes and multi-lot subdivisions through to aerial surveying, we pride ourselves on understanding your requests and providing quality solutions. Fluker Surveying Ltd Land and Aerial Surveying | Project Management Land Development Engineering Urban and Rural Planning 09 427 0003 reception@fluker.co.nz www. uker.co.nz T T Hugh de Lacy New technology driving surveying forward Fluker Surveying has grown to having 11 full-time staff covering the full range of surveying services. Riding the rising tide of demand for aerial surveying in particular, and of rapidly evolving new technology, Fluker Surveying is celebrating its 35th year of serving the Auckland region from its base in the Orewa CBD. Fluker Surveying’s aircraft, kept at its office, is a DJI Matrice M300 RTK, which operates in an area between Clevedon in the south and Bream Bay in the North, with two pilots on call. “Aerial surveying is a significant part of our business, but we also undertake land surveying, resource consent planning and land development engineering,” says Fluker Surveying’s working director, Storm Lee. “Our business mix allows us to survey from the air in cases where traditional land surveying methods aren’t possible or economic – larger-scale data can be collected from the air safely and economically. “The Matrice uses a DJI P1 photogammetry camera, and we can attach LIDAR modules if needed to supplement the photogrammetry,” Storm says. “It gives us the ability to collect large amounts of data over extensive areas in much quicker time frames.” Started as a one-man-band by Stuart Fluker from his Auckland home in 1991, Fluker Surveying has grown to having 11 full-time staff covering the full range of surveying services. Stuart had been working for Bolam and Associates in Orewa, but he went out on his own in 1991 when it could no longer support him. Storm came into the business fresh out of Otago University in 2002, and he and Stuart later set up a succession agreement that saw Storm progressively buy Fluker Surveying out between 2015 and 2019, after which Stuart retired. “I’m very much a hands-on director, overseeing the technical aspects and providing expert knowledge and experience to our team,” Storm says. “I assist with the land surveying and land development work in consenting and engineering.” That work includes subdivisions – urban, rural, cross-lease and unit titles – resource consent applications, boundary redefinition, as-built and GPS surveys, along with monitoring of settlement and lateral displacements. Building set-out and certification services cover construction and building location certification, while the company’s civil surveying services include, among others, subdivisions of all kinds, town planning, boundary surveys, topographic surveys, erosion and sediment control, and construction supervision and compliance. “To top all that off, we also do high-rise building surveys that include verticality management, structure movement monitoring for safety, and working with concrete and other subcontractors,” Storm says. All of this in a climate of ever-advancing scientific developments in the surveying field. “Recently, there’s been a continual evolution of technology – like refined systems for all tech, more satellites for GNSS, better 4G network reaching more remote areas, better processing ability to get better results in a shorter time, and utilisation of artificial intelligence to perform processing elements,” Storm says. “They’re all contributing to us being able to deliver ever-more precise and reliable data, and to deliver it ever-more quickly. “Aerial surveying may be entering a time of adjustment to drone surveying, so the changes there are not going to slow down either,” he says. Fluker Surveying
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