Land survey & 3D laser scanning · Connecticut
Surveys and 3D scans your designers can build from.
Property lines, topography, what's under the street, and the inside of the building as it really is.
ZUVIC measures what's actually there, on the ground and inside the building, and delivers it in the format your designers, your lender and the regulators need.
Measured in the field. Checked in the office. Checked again before anyone signs it.
On the ground
Land survey.
Property and boundary.
Where the lines are, to the standard a buyer, lender or attorney will accept.
- A-2 property surveys (Connecticut's highest accuracy class for boundaries) and T-2 topographic surveys
- ALTA surveys for buyers and lenders
- Boundary and lease-area surveys
- Surveys and maps for environmental land use restrictions
- Easement maps
Design surveys.
The base every site plan is drawn on.
- Topographic and utility surveys
- Desktop utility surveys: records research and mapping of what's already under the street, with every conflict documented
- 3D base mapping in Civil 3D
- Drone photogrammetry for topographic mapping and orthophotos
Construction.
Putting the design on the ground, then recording what was built.
- Construction stakeout and control points
- As-built surveys, including foundation and final site as-builts
Inside the building
3D laser scanning.
A laser scanner records a room, a building or a piece of plant as millions of measured points. It captures walls, columns, stairs, equipment, and the visible piping, ductwork and conduit. Your design team then works from the building as it stands today, not from drawings that stopped matching it years ago.
When a scan is worth it
- You're renovating or adding equipment in a working plant, pump station or mechanical room, and a clash in the field would be expensive.
- The drawings for an older building are missing, incomplete, or were never updated after changes.
- The space is tight or crowded, and tape measurements would take days and still miss things.
- You need a record of existing conditions before a sale, a lease, a demolition or a phased construction project.
- The same visit also needs a hazardous building materials survey or a condition assessment, so one site visit can serve both.
3D laser scanning
How a scan project works.
Scope.
We agree on what to capture (rooms, levels, exterior, roof), how much detail the design needs, and what you want at the end.
Control.
We set survey control and tie the scan to the Connecticut State Plane coordinate system, so it lines up with site survey data and any existing drawings.
Capture.
The scanner is set up at stations throughout the space, with color imagery, scheduled around plant operations and access.
Registration and checking.
The scans are stitched into a single point cloud and checked against the survey control and field measurements.
Deliverables.
You get what your team will actually use:
- a colorized point cloud for Autodesk ReCap, AutoCAD and Revit
- a Revit model of architecture, structure, and plumbing, mechanical, electrical and fire protection systems, at the level of detail the design needs
- plan, section and elevation sheets drawn from the model.
Use in the design.
Because ZUVIC also does the civil, environmental and hazardous-materials work, the scan can feed straight into the rest of the project instead of sitting in a folder.
Survey
Representative work.
Survey that follows a development from purchase to construction.
For a developer's 40-unit site in Newington, ZUVIC's survey work covered:
- an A-2/T-2 survey of a neighboring parcel for the sewer route
- an ALTA survey for the lender
- right-of-way and tree staking before clearing
- construction control points for the site contractor
Surveys that support an environmental land use restriction.
For a manufacturing campus in East Hartford, working for the owner's environmental consultant, ZUVIC prepared the survey and map a land use restriction requires. It shows one site-wide subject area, with every utility and every easement, recorded or not, because those are what the state comments on. CT DEEP approved the restriction in August 2026.
A 100+ acre lease boundary at an operating airport.
An airport operator needed its leased area defined to A-2 accuracy, where the old description was only approximate. ZUVIC combined decades-old airport maps with new field survey, set control around flight operations, and coordinated the boundary crew with an aerial mapping flight. It delivered a signed survey with one-foot topography. The operator came back for it two years later.
Knowing what's under the street.
Before a regional sewer authority could plan new capacity in Hartford, someone had to find out what was already under the streets. ZUVIC requested record drawings from 17 utility owners, digitized them onto the authority's GIS base, and drew 24 sheets covering more than 52,000 feet of sewer, listing every place the records disagreed. The prime consultant then asked ZUVIC to price a follow-on Hartford survey done the same way.
Questions we hear
Answered plainly.
What kind of survey do I need to buy or develop a property in Connecticut?
It depends on what the survey is for. A lender or title company usually asks for an ALTA survey. A site plan is drawn on an A-2 boundary survey and a T-2 topographic survey. An environmental land use restriction needs its own survey and map. Tell us what you're doing with the site and we'll tell you which one you need, so you don't pay for the wrong survey.
What's the difference between an A-2 and a T-2 survey?
They're Connecticut accuracy classes. A-2 is the standard for property boundaries, and T-2 is the standard for topography: the grades and features a design is drawn on. Most development sites need both.
What is an ALTA survey?
An ALTA/NSPS land title survey follows a national standard written for buyers, lenders and title insurers. It shows the boundary, the improvements, and the easements and other matters that affect title, so a lender can rely on it at closing.
What is a desktop utility survey?
It's a map of what's already under the street, built from the utility owners' own records before anyone digs or designs. It flags every place the records disagree, so the field work and the design focus on the spots that matter. For one Hartford sewer project, ZUVIC gathered records from 17 utility owners covering more than 52,000 feet of sewer.
How is a survey checked before it's signed?
The field data is checked in the office against the survey control and the record information, the drawing is reviewed, and a Connecticut-licensed Land Surveyor reviews it again before signing it. Mistakes in a survey turn into mistakes in the design, so the checking is part of the job, not an extra.
Do I need a laser scan or a regular survey?
A survey maps land: boundaries, grades, utilities, what's on the ground. A scan maps the inside of a building or structure: the rooms, the equipment, the piping. Many projects need both, tied to the same coordinates.
Can you scan a building or plant while it's operating?
Yes. Scanning doesn't touch anything, and the scan stations are scheduled around operations and access, so the space can usually stay in use while we work.
Will the scan line up with the site survey?
Yes. We set survey control and tie the scan to the Connecticut State Plane coordinate system, so the building model, the site survey and any existing drawings line up.
What do I get at the end?
For a survey, signed survey drawings plus CAD files in the format your designers use. For a scan, a colorized point cloud for Autodesk ReCap, AutoCAD and Revit and, if you need them, a Revit model and plan, section and elevation sheets.
Do you use drones?
Yes, for topographic mapping and orthophotos on sites that are large or hard to walk. The drone data is tied to ground control, so it lines up with the rest of the survey.
Credentials
- Signed by
- A Connecticut-licensed Land Surveyor
- Delivered in
- Civil 3D, AutoCAD, Revit and ReCap
- Tied to
- Connecticut State Plane coordinates
- Certified
- Small & Minority Business Enterprise, CT DAS
Next step
Book a 20-minute call.
Tell us what you're planning and what drawings you have. We'll tell you which survey or scan you need and what you'll get at the end.
Or, if you'd rather write it down first, tell us about your site in a short form and we'll reply the same business day.
ZUVIC Inc. is a Rocky Hill, Connecticut engineering firm. We provide A-2/T-2 property and topographic surveys, ALTA surveys, desktop utility surveys, construction stakeout and as-builts, and 3D laser scanning and scan-to-Revit models of buildings and plants.