All Land Surveying Services

Underhill & Underhill is a partnership of BC land surveyors providing surveying services in Vancouver and BC, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. As experienced and accredited professional Vancouver land surveyors, Underhill brings its expertise to many technologies and applications from conventional land surveying to 3D laser scanning. Our surveying services are applicable across many industries and both private and public sectors.

• Cadastral Surveying - Legal Land 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 certific...
• Construction Surveying Underhill provides comprehensive development- and building-related survey services for major construction projects in Vancouver, BC, Canada, the Territories, and Nunavut, including topographic surveys, route surveys (roads, utilities), construction layouts, grid line layouts, as-built surveys, highway construction surveys, pipeline construction ...
• 3D Laser Scanning Services Continuing to be on the forefront of survey technology, Underhill has added 3D laser scanning to our wide variety of services offered to clients in Vancouver, BC and Canada. 3D laser surveying 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...
• 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 BC. 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 observation coll...
• 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 ...
• Land Surveying Software Development Since the 1960's, Underhill has been at the forefront of surveying 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...
• 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...