Definition And Purpose

Engineering Survey is land survey conducted to meet three basic engineering requirements:-

• Obtaining ground data spatially referenced to boundary and survey reference marks to support engineering designs of civil works (roads, railways, water-ways, buildings etc.)
• Setting out of civil structures according to their designed horizontal and vertical parameters.
• Producing "as built" plans of completed civil works for contractual as well as inventory purposes.

Methodology and Instrumentation

The methodology for cadastral survey is prescribed under Section 10 of National Land Code 1965, Survey Regulations of Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia 1976 Revised 2002 and also Licensed Surveyors Regulations 1959. Instrument necessary for the execution of cadastral survey are Total Station.