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Plowman Craven House, 2 Lea Business Park, Lower Luton Road, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 5EQ
t: +44 (0)1582 765566 e: webenquiry@plowmancraven.co.uk w: plowmancraven.co.uk
Welcome to Plowman Craven
We specialise in providing geospatial data services to both public and private sectors and, as one of the largest surveying companies in the UK, our access to resource means we’re able to respond efficiently with experienced personnel, no matter the location or size of your project.
We’ve been offering geospatial advice, services and solutions through every stage of the construction project lifecycle for nearly 60 years, but we’re not just a survey company. We are a multi-disciplinary firm combining the very latest equipment and techniques to provide the data that helps inform and underpin a clients’ plans. We measure and scan. We survey and record. We model and monitor. We interpret and advise.
Having played a key role on some of the most prestigious development projects in the UK and overseas, we serve a broad client base that includes developers, architects, contractors, engineers, project managers, commercial agents, estate managers, investors and government bodies.
Our reputation is based on honesty, integrity and the consistent delivery of quality service and our efficiencies and expertise in providing integrated measurement and consultancy services enable us to deliver real savings and value. Read more about us
Our Services
Our continued investment and R&D and increasingly strong performance ensures we remain one of the UK’s largest measurement surveying companies. We are experts in the capture and provision of high-quality geospatial data to the Property, Rail, Infrastructure and Urban Regeneration markets. With over 170 employees, we continue to invest in highly skilled staff and advanced survey technology.
We provide the certainty needed to build, manage and maintain the commercial properties, infrastructure and assets that form the backbone of Britain. In a typical week, we could be consulting on a commercial property development, supplying rail track alignment surveys, laser-scanning and 3D modelling a heritage building, surveying using an unmanned drone or mapping out the underground utility services at a redevelopment site.
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Advice, services and solutions through every stage of the construction project lifecycle.
Strategy
We provide specialist advice and consultancy services to support your property investment decisions, whether it’s helping to identify and minimise environmental risks or finding the most appropriate and cost-effective geospatial solution.
Services within the Strategy phase
- Survey Scope Consultation
- BIM Consultancy
- Environmental Strategic Advice
- Building Technical Due Diligence
Feasibility & Planning
Our innovative and expert team can provide a range of added value services during the early stages of any project. Accurate and up-to- date data at this phase and our ability to work across all aspects of a planning application ensures a single point of contact.
Services within the Feasibility & Planning phase
- Topographical Surveys
- Utilities Mapping
- BIM Consultancy
- Surveys for Planning/ROL
- Infrastructure Surveys
- Rail Surveys
- Aerial Surveys & Inspections
- Environmental Due Diligence
- Correlation Surveys
Design
For more than 50 years we have applied our survey expertise to complex infrastructure projects and large urban regeneration schemes, supplementing traditional techniques with new technologies such as drones, 3D laser scanning and digital monitoring.
Services within the Design phase
- Topographical Surveys
- Utilities Mapping
- BIM Consultancy
- Scan to BIM
- Infrastructure Surveys
- Rail Surveys
- Aerial Surveys & Inspections
- Correlation Surveys
- Environmental Design & Assessment
- Measured Building Surveys
- Area Referencing
Pre-Construction
Our considerable knowledge in the Property and Infrastructure sectors enables bespoke technical solutions that reduce risk, increase efficiency and provide cost savings. Major BIM and Rail projects have benefited from our unique application of these solutions.
Services within the Pre-Construction phase
- BIM Consultancy
- Scan to BIM
- Infrastructure Surveys
- Rail Surveys
- Correlation Surveys
- Environmental Management & Monitoring
- Schedule of Condition
- Structural & Geotechnical Monitoring
Construction
By providing a range of invaluable services, including surveying with drones, the application of environmental and structural monitoring, and the use of construction verification, we are able to help reduce risk for any construction project.
Services within the Construction phase
- BIM Consultancy
- Scan to BIM
- Infrastructure Surveys
- Rail Surveys
- Aerial Surveys & Inspections
- Environmental Management & Monitoring
- Structural & Geotechnical Monitoring
- Construction Verification
In Use
Offering a wide spectrum of surveying services enables us to offer support and advice for the lifetime of a facility. Providing 'one-stop- shop' Technical Due Diligence also involves us as large portfolios or single assets change hands.
Services within the In Use phase
- BIM Consultancy
- Scan to BIM
- Infrastructure Surveys
- Rail Surveys
- Aerial Surveys & Inspections
- Area Referencing
- Schedule of Condition
- Building Surveying & Technical Due Diligence
- Lease Plans & Boundaries
- Estate Data Management & Consultancy
Markets
- Corporate & Office
- Education
- Energy & Power
- Government & Public Bodies
- Healthcare
- Heritage, Arts & Leisure
- Industrial & Logistics
- Rail & Transport
- Real Estate & Development
- Residential
- Retail